Latest – MPs narrowly back legalising assisted dying in England and Wales by 23 votes
Also a Free Presbyterian Church statement – THE PINCER MOVEMENT AGAINST HUMAN LIFE
While MPs have voted in favour of the ‘ASSISTED DYING’ bill, it will still have to pass the House of Lords before it can become law.
In any report of the debate that I have seen, I did not read of anyone mentioning the most vital of all factors as the matter was debated in Parliament!
Where is the one, ‘assisted’ in the ending of their life, going to?
It is not a feature of modern religion the preach that there is a HELL awaiting those who die without personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Saviour stated this matter most plainly.
“He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him,” John 3:36.
To take one’s own life, whether it be legalised to do so or not, is very much contrary to God’s Law.
There is a penalty for defying and disobeying the Word of God.
Judas, the most infamous of suicides, undoubtedly went immediately to a lost eternity. Of him Christ said: “While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled,” John 17:12.
Heed Christ’s Word
“Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment, than for you. And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell. He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me,” Luke 10:13-16.
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels,” Mark 8:36-38.
Blind
Were people aware of the reality, the most terrible reality of hell, they would not use the time that remains to them to murder themselves, but rather, like the thief on the cross, seek pardon and saving mercy from the Saviour.
“And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us. But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise,” Luke 23:39-43.
The Psalmist is correct: “Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful,” Psalm 116:5.
That man’s last minute repentance resulted in him dying with the assuring words of Christ echoing in his ears! “To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.”
One famous individual whose name we will omit, issued the following statement after the vote: ‘Your courage and compassion, reliving painful memories from your own lives, and battling to protect others from experiencing the same agony, have helped bring about this hugely important change in the law. Congratulations and well done. Your brave voices have been heard at last.’
It is heart-breaking to see the illusory hope of escaping pain when, in truth, they are but ushering themselves into the eternal pain of everlasting damnation!
Those legislators who have ignored and disregarded the Law of God and legalised ‘self murder’, will face a terrible harvest under God’s wrath.
They will also have to endure the eternal curses of those they persuaded to take their own lives, only to discover for ever and ever the dreadful folly they have committed, even as it is prophesied of the Antichrist’s reception in hell!
(See Isaiah 14:4-27.)
Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)
20th June 2025