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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

A wonderful truth wickedly denied

“Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable,” 1 Corinthians 15:12-19.

These verses came before me while Rev Samuel Fitton was preaching a really excellent message on the resurrection of Christ yesterday morning — ‘Proofs of the resurrection’ from 1 Corinthians 15:4. I would encourage everyone to listen to it.

In various forms across the world many have sought to witness to the truth of Christ’s resurrection from the dead on the third day as stated by the angel to “Mary Magdalene and the other Mary” was they came “to see the sepulchre”.

“And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you,” Matthew 28:5-7.

Many of these events smack of superstition and man-inspired notions of how we should remember the Lord’s death and resurrection.

We have been told how we should do that in the simple gathering around the `table of the Lord’ of which Paul sets down God’s will in 1 Corinthians 11:23-34. It is thus we show “the Lord’s death till he come.”

In 1st Corinthians 15, Paul is rehearsing the truths of the gospel. “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain,” 1 Corinthians 15:1-2.

Ministers ought to note that they need to often repeat the simple, central truths of the gospel, especially when error has enter the congregation.

GOSPEL TRUTH is God’s antidote to SATAN’S LIES!

In considering the verses of our text, please note:

I. THE TRUTH OF THE RESURRECTION HAS ALWAYS BEEN ATTACKED.

There have been many which have said, like these foolish people in Corinth, “there is no resurrection of the dead”.

1. It is a hated truth because it declares the defeat of the devil. So said Peter. “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil,” Hebrews 2:14.

Likewise, Paul spoke of the triumph of the cross. “Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it,” Colossians 2:14-15. (more…)