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The Question of the Ages Fully Answered! Second study

— A brief exposition of Psalm 15 —

III. WHERE IT IS THE TRUE BELIEVER IS TO ABIDE.

“LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?”

For the Old Testament believer these two places represent the location of the God appointed place where He is to be worshipped.

1. It was a place appointed by the Lord. “But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come: And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks: And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee,”Deuteronomy 12:5-7.

That is what distinguishes the religion of Christ, true religion, from all those invented by man. Every element of true religion is ordained of God!

In the Westminster Confession of Faith, the underlying confession of Free Presbyterianism, there is this statement in the chapter dealing with the Holy Scriptures. ‘The whole counsel of God, concerning all things necessary for his own glory, man’s salvation, faith, and life, is either expressly set down in Scripture, or by good and necessary consequence may be deduced from Scripture: unto which nothing at any time is to be added, whether by new revelations of the Spirit, or traditions of men. Nevertheless, we acknowledge the inward illumination of the Spirit of God to be necessary for the saving understanding of such things as are revealed in the Word; and that there are some circumstances concerning the worship of God, and government of the Church, common to human actions and societies, which are to be ordered by the light of nature and Christian prudence, according to the general rules of the Word, which are always to be observed.’ (WCF, Chapter 1, Paragraph 6). (more…)

Francis is a wiser man now!

Every form of complimentary adjective has been employed to describe the pope who has just died.

Considering that he and all previous popes, have assumed titles which they have no right to and are guilty of blasphemy by so doing, I, along with all who believe the Bible, believe he was not what the duped followers of his religious teachings believed him to be.

He, along with all previous popes, led a religious organisation which, despite its claim to be the only ’true church’, was in world-wide violation of God’s Law, especially that stated in the ten commandments, Exodus 20:4-6, and repeated many times throughout the Bible.

“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.”

This law is broken repeatedly every day in all Roman Catholic places of worship and in the homes of the ‘faithful’!

That which God forbids is a chief feature of the religion of the popes!

The Westminster Confession of Faith, Chapter 25:6 says this of all popes:

‘There is no other head of the Church but the Lord Jesus Christ. Nor can the Pope of Rome, in any sense, be head thereof; but is that Antichrist, that man of sin, and son of perdition, that exalts himself, in the Church, against Christ and all that is called God.’

That view was shared by Protestants generally from such men as John Wesley to Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

I well recall seeing his angry and bad tempered display when a poor benighted woman devoutly clasped his hand in misplaced affection. He slapped her hand away in a most irritated manner.

I believe that the world was given a true glimpse of the man and the highly ‘stage-managed’ persona of the ‘holy, humble, gentle’ deceptive facade was breached. (more…)

Letter of protest by six Free Presbyterian ministers

This is a copy of a letter sent out by six Free Presbyterian ministers as a protest against the recent spectacle of two Free Presbyterian ministers organising a meeting to promote the Irish language in company with Sinn Fein representatives.

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The Irish Language and the Sinn Fein/IRA campaign to extort more money from the public purse to finance their ‘Gaelitising’ Ulster!

This letter will refresh the hearts of many Free Presbyterians who have mourned at the path down which the Free Presbyterian Church has been led in recent years.

It should encourage those who will rejoice at the actions of the six ministers who signed the letter to pray that many others will show the same courage and ‘Stand up, Stand up for Jesus’ in these evil times.

Sincerely in Christ’s name,

Ivan Foster

Letter: We regret the fact that fellow Free Presbyterian ministers would allow themselves to be used over the Irish language

As Free Presbyterian ministers, we wish to respond to recent media reports of a meeting held in Farranshane House Antrim, on the history of Presbyterianism and the Irish language. The meeting was organised by Rev Paul Thompson who gave subsequent media interviews to the BBC and Cool FM, and was attended by Sinn Fein chair Declan Kearney who claimed to have been personally invited by the Rev Thompson.

No one can deny our history and the fact our Protestant forefathers used the Irish language as a means of evangelising native Irish speakers in the 17th-19th centuries. They are to be honoured and commended for their efforts. However, the context and use of the Irish language is completely different today. It has been hijacked by violent republicanism to fight a culture war against Protestant and Unionist traditions and culture. Whilst symbols, emblems and expressions of Unionist traditions are opposed and have been removed from public places, Sinn Fein has aggressively pushed the Irish language into the public arena, even into places where only a minority desire it.

We are dismayed that Free Presbyterian ministers would allow themselves and their event (regardless of their intentions) to be used by Sinn Fein and the media to promote their republican objectives. We are also aghast at claims that at least one Sinn Fein member was personally invited to this event and thereby afforded a predicable opportunity to promote his political agenda. We stand with the victims of republican terrorism, not with those who continue to support and glorify the terrorists who murdered and maimed innocent people in an immoral terrorist campaign, and as such we wish to publicly disassociate ourselves from it.

It is noteworthy that while there may have been a Gospel presentation this was absent from the coverage in the media. Tellingly, the BBC kept back an interview with the Secretary of State in which he questioned opposition to Irish signage recorded last week until Friday with the result that the report on the event in Farranshane House ran on the same day.

We regret that the organisers allowed themselves to be used in this fashion.

Rev Darryl Abernethy,
Rev Graham Middleton,
Rev Brian McClung,
Rev David McLaughlin,
Rev Daniel Henderson,
Rev Andrew Patterson