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“Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man. I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you,” 2 Corinthians 7:2-3.

While few could match the passion and degree of love that Paul had for his Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, or the people of God and the cause of the Gospel, nevertheless at least a measure of his love should be in every Christian heart.

I believe I can echo, albeit faintly, this explanation he sends to the believers in Corinth, of the tenor of his letters to the church and the condemnations and rebukes they contained.

In his closing letter to Timothy, Paul left these words for every preacher to observe and practice.

“I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine,” 2 Timothy 4:1-2.

Thee can be no preaching of the Word of God without, reproving, rebuking, exhorting with all longsuffering and doctrine! Love cannot remain silent in the face of error and wrong-doing.

Such was the ministry Dr Ian Paisley in his heyday. Such is what I imbibed, at least to some degree, under his tuition.

These are the days spoken of by Paul when “perilous times shall come” (2 Timothy 3:1) and in the face of such departure and apostasy many professing Christians, even those who profess to be God’s servants, “will not endure sound doctrine”, (2 Timothy 4:3).

At least something of this spirit is very evident within the Free Presbyterian Church today. What the Lord led our forefathers out of the apostate Presbyterian Church in Ireland to preach and uphold – SEPARATION from the apostasy – is no longer fully and faithfully practised by all Free Presbyterians.

Even ministers and elders are seen to be guilty of forsaking this truth. (more…)

Eóin Tennyson, of the Alliance Party, who is a self confessed sodomite since he was 19 (Wikipedia),  has introduced a Bill in the Stormont Assembly, that has been described by lawyers as presenting ‘a real threat to freedom’.

The Bill is intended to outlaw ‘Conversion Therapy’, a process embraced by new-evangelicals as their answer to the moral perversion of sodomy and its related practices.

‘Conversion Therapy’ is a sham and a fraud and it is but the invention of those who have but a ‘nodding acquaintance’ with Word of God and who really wish to rewrite the Bible to accommodate their modernistic notions!

Unionists are sallying forth to speak against the Bill, and in so doing, appear to be defending ‘Conversion Therapy’.

It is never right to ever give any credence to that which is wrong in order to oppose a greater wrong!

Conversion

What is lost sight of in the welter of words in Stormont is that Tennyson and his supporters are really aiming at the doctrine of God’s Word which Christians call ‘Conversion’. The word refers to a ‘turning from sin to the worship and obedience of the true God’. It is that which the Christians in Thessalonica experienced.

“For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing. For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come,” 1 Thessalonians 1:8-10.

Abomination.

God’s Word declares the lifestyle of Eóin Tennyson to be an abomination.

“Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination,” Leviticus 18:22.

“And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel,” 1 Kings 14:24.

Those who persist in this perverted lifestyle are given up of God. (more…)