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Self deliverance or self destruction

My days of writing articles are drawing to a close. No one can stop the clock or the calendar or the aging process!

While I may mount an article occasionally, I intend to try and maintain a witness against the growing apostasy and the sad compromise amongst many Free Presbyterians in the face of this latter-day rebellion against the Lord.

What I plan to do is to mount recordings of sermons I have preached in the past. These sermons are based upon the Word of God and therefore are ever relevant since the blessed book of God is always and ever right up to date.

Peter said: “I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance,” 2 Peter 3:1. I would hope that what was said in weakness in years past, by one who can say like Amos of old, “I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son,” 7:14, will be listened to with profit, especially by those who were not yet born when the controversy of 2007 and ‘power-sharing with Sinn Fein/IRA’ brought such confusion into the Free Presbyterian Church.

I hope then to periodically mount again, in many instances, the ‘blowing of an alarm’.

Here then is the first of these sermons.

“O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself,” Hosea 13:9. (Preached on August 5th, 2007)

Sincerely in Christ’s name,

Ivan Foster

Letter to the Belfast Newsletter

(The ‘Belfast Newsletter’ Editor has requested a shorter version of the following letter which I submitted on July 4th. In the interest of getting out the truth, I have complied with his request and I trust that it will be published soon. IF)

See the bottom of this post for images of the printed version.

Sir,

A great deal of ‘pernicious drivel’ has appeared in your newspaper ‘letters’ column concerning what is wrong religiously here in Northern Ireland.

There is a common theme in these letters: ‘Abandon the Biblical beliefs of the past and go with what the ‘modernists and liberals’ say is good.’

That is seen as the ‘cure-all’ for Ulster’s woes.

Sadly, nothing could be further from the truth!

That which God was pleased to bless in the past, with repeated seasons of revival blessing and thousands of conversions to personal faith in Christ and the enjoyment of peace with God, is what may be found in the ‘Old Confessions’ of the three main denominations and which has been repudiated by those denominations.

Therein lies the cause of our troubles!

A study of the Bible, particularly the Book of Judges, will show that what we have experienced, and will continue to experience, stems from a rejection of the truth of God, set forth in Holy Scripture.

‘Ecumenism’, man’s invented religion, has demanded the abandonment of the cardinal doctrines of the Word of God. That demand has been acceded to by the three main churches.

I hope your readers will consider these quotations from the historic doctrinal statements of the main churches, doctrines which God was pleased to endorse and prosper those who preached them!

39 Articles of Religion of the Church of Ireland.

Article 31.

‘Of the one Oblation of Christ finished upon the Cross.’

The Offering of Christ once made is that perfect redemption, propitiation, and satisfaction, for all the sins of the whole world, both original and actual; and there is none other satisfaction for sin, but that alone.

Wherefore the sacrifices of Masses, in the which it was commonly said, that the Priest did offer Christ for the quick and the dead, to have remission of pain or guilt, were blasphemous fables, and dangerous deceits. (more…)

Shameful and deplorable headline

This shameful and deplorable headline has featured in a number of news websites and it has constrained me to send out this condemnation.

Lily Allen, 40, shocks fans as she claims she ‘can’t remember’ how many abortions she’s had: ‘Maybe four or five’

This is the woman who without guilt or embarrassment acknowledges that ‘Abortions I’ve had a few… but then again… I can’t remember exactly how many.’

She has murdered 4 or 5 unborn babies by abortion but blithely states that she cannot really remember how any unborn babies she ended the lives of!

It is a clear testimony of the level to which human beings will sink when no longer challenged and directed by the Word of God and made to realise just what sin is!

It is also shocking reminder of the dreadful truth that it is perfectly ‘legal’ to ‘do away’ with the unborn in our land!

The truth of God on murder has been thrown overboard and the depraved views of the ungodly enthroned as the law of the land.

It has to be said that we are ripe for judgment and virtually all pulpits are silent in the face of this satanic onslaught.

A WORD FOR LILY ALLEN

Let me plainly say to Lily Allen that there is a coming day when the Judge of All the Earth will cure her poor memory and face her up with her crimes.

Furthermore, I believe it possible she will encounter in some way the little ones she so casually disposed of since I am of the opinion that children who died before the years of understanding go to heaven, redeemed by the blood of Christ.

But even to such as Lily Allen there is offered a way of escape, even by the pardon for sin, purchased by Christ at Calvary, and set forth in the gospel of the Lord Jesus.

But there is no escape for those who reject its offer of mercy and salvation.

“How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him,” Hebrews 2:3.

Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)
3rd July 2025