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October 2020

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KICS assembly talks. Current series: “Bright and shining lights in the Bible”


Featured sermon series: The unsearchable riches of Christ.
Studies in the Epistle to the Ephesians

Part 68: Walking in the Light, Pt 2;  Part 69: Walking in the Light, Pt 3;  Part 70: Infilling of the Spirit Pt 1;  Part 71: Infilling of the Spirit Pt 2;  Part 72: Infilling of the Spirit Pt 3;  Part 73: Infilling of the Spirit Pt 4;  Part 74: Wives' submission pt 1;  Part 75: Wives' submission pt 2;  Part 76: Husband's love pt 1;  Part 77: Husband's love pt 2

See all messages in this series here.


Recently Added Sermons

Speaking with our mouths full!!
preached by Rev. Ivan Foster on Sun Oct 25, 2020 with audio and video

The Blessing of Dan
preached by Rev. Ivan Foster on Fri Jun 22, 2007

The Correct Understanding of Pre-Millennial Truth a Help to Faith
preached by Rev. Ivan Foster on Fri Jun 23, 2006

Christ's Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem
preached by Rev. Ivan Foster on Fri Jun 24, 2005

The Gospel that Saves
preached by Rev. Ivan Foster on Sun Sep 25, 2011
 
Pestilences, one of the marks of this age
preached by Rev. Brian McClung on Sun Sep 27, 2020 with audio and video
 
Pestilences prior to the return of the Lord Jesus Christ
preached by Rev. Brian McClung on Sun Sep 27, 2020 with audio and video
 
Funeral service for Mrs Jacqueline Johnston
preached by Rev. Ivan Foster on Tue Feb 16, 2016, with a gospel message on Heb 9:27, by Rev Larry Power, minister in charge of Kilskeery FPC

Watch Kilskeery Free Presbyterian services live online here

 

Pope endorses sodomy

Here is further evidence of the rapid decline into darkness that is taking place around us.

The Bible says that as a man “thinketh in his heart, so is he,” Proverbs 23:7.

This article which we have attached, quotes the Pope endorsing sodomy and ’same-sex’ unions, and also shows that this has been his mind since his earliest days. For the Pope to say this will perhaps shock some.

No Shock!

It ought not to for Popery has been a fountain of iniquity since its inception with its priests openly associated with, engaged in and seeking to shield and shelter those within their ranks who engage in this perversion! The recent history in Ireland ought to tell the poor deluded Irish Roman Catholic this fact! Read more


The Sad Consequences Of Being Linked To Wicked Men

This morning my daily reading included the last chapter of 1st Kings, chapter 22. It features the sad departure of good King Jehoshaphat from the truth of God when he entered into a political allegiance with the evil King Ahab, a man notorious for his wickedness.

Of Ahab we read: “And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above all that were before him. And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him. And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria. And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him,” 1 Kings 16:30-33. Read more


Perfumes And Deodorants . . . . They Testify Of Our Sinfulness!

“For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness,” Psalm 38:4-5.

It is a quite remarkable thing that King David, despite all his military engagements, never was wounded. At least there is no record in Scripture of him every suffering any injuries in battle. The nearest he came to a wounding was his near fatal encounter in his latter years with one of the offspring of Goliath.

“Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint. And Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David. But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel,” 2 Samuel 21:15-17.

But apart from this incident I believe it correct to say that the Lord kept David safe on the battlefield. Read more


Cowardly compromise

Below is a letter I sent off to the Belfast Newsletter on October 12th in response to its article on the question of a complete ‘lock down’ in Northern Ireland.

The article highlights the misgivings of DUP MP, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and is reproduced below.

Sadly, it appears he has not the courage to confront the reason why the whole country may well suffer a lock down rather than those areas, due to their defiance of the social distancing rules, have seen an increase in the numbers of infections.

Sir,

Why does not some Unionist politician highlight why the Stormont Executive is not considering a ‘local lockdown’ where the infection rate is highest?

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson dances around the topic but fails to come right out and denounce the compromise of which his Party leader is guilty! Read more


Playing the two ends against the middle

If the thinking of the British government of the WW 2 era was as muddled and confused as is today’s political leadership, then we today would likely still be living under Nazi rule!

There is a measure of ‘befuddlement’ in political life today that is unsurpassed by anything history can produce!

There is a simple reason for this! Despite the presence of Oxford and Cambridge graduates galore within parliament and doubtless brains aplenty, there is hardly an ounce of gumption between them all.

WHY? The answer is simple. When it comes to that wisdom whereby we walk in a path of peace and prosperity, mankind is utterly lacking!

Those who believe and embrace the Bible will find the ‘path of life’ for it is revealed there for all to enjoy who will trust the Author of it – the Lord Jesus Christ.

“Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore,” Psalm 16:11. Read more

September 2020

Audio sermons


KICS assembly talks.

  • Bright and shining lights in the Bible. Kilskeery Independent Christian School will be fully reopened from Monday 31st August and Rev Ivan Foster will continue his School Assembly messages each Tuesday and Thursday DV, starting from from Tuesday 1st September.
  • Part 26, Part 27, Part 28, Part 29, Part 30, Part 31, Part 32, Part 33.
    See all the talks in this series here.
  • Download a zip file of all the recent studies in the Parables here.
  • See all the KICS assembly talks listed here

Featured sermon series: The unsearchable riches of Christ.
Studies in the Epistle to the Ephesians

Part 58: Imitating God, Pt 2;   Part 59: Imitating God, Pt 3;   Part 60: Imitating God, Pt 4;   Part 61: Retreating from Sin, Pt 1;   Part 62: Retreating from Sin, Pt 2;   Part 63: Retreating from sin, Pt 3;   Part 64: Sin - a bar to heaven, Pt1;   Part 65: Sin - a bar to heaven pt 2;   Part 66: Sin - a bar to heaven pt 3;   Part 67: Walking in the Light, Pt 1
 
See all messages in this series here.


Recently Added Sermons

Pestilences, one of the marks of this age
preached by Rev. Brian McClung on Sun Sep 27, 2020 with audio and video
 
Pestilences prior to the return of the Lord Jesus Christ
preached by Rev. Brian McClung on Sun Sep 27, 2020 with audio and video

Watch Kilskeery Free Presbyterian services live online here

KILSKEERY FREE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

‘Annual Conference Weekend’

(Curtailed due to the ongoing Covid-19 epidemic)

Lord’s Day September 27th

11.30 a.m. and 7.00 p.m.

Guest Preacher: Rev Brian McClung (Newtownabbey FP Church)

Subjects: “Pestilences, one of marks of this age” and “Pestilences prior to the return of the Lord Jesus Christ”

All are welcome at these services at which social distancing will be observed

Watch the services live online here


Sacked Christian in court

Below is a follow-up to the matter of the lady sacked from her position in a Church of England primary school in England.

The matter is now before a court and this report gives some coverage of the court proceedings. There is a need for Christians to take heed to the spirit that is enveloping the nations and the rejection of Bible religion that is the result.

Note how this woman’s views are called “extreme” and “reactionary” by both the barrister representing the school. Read more


Further evidence of perverts in control

The following article appears in the Belfast Telegraph of September 21, 2020.

It should be read and prayerfully noted by every Christian and we should all learn from it the direction that things are going in.

This ‘pro-perversion’ movement is no mere transient innovation or passing fad on the part of those who are slaves to that which is ‘politically correct’!

No, it is the latest manifestation of humanity’s departure from God and its rebellion against the order He has ordained.

Anyone who objects to these departures from what is natural and seeks to uphold God’s ordinances will be summarily made to suffer the wrath of the perverted establishment. Read more… 


Cookstown ‘anti-sodomite’ protest

Here is a report of yesterday’s Free Presbyterian protest against the shameful pro-sodomite parade in Cookstown, led by the shameless Church of Ireland ‘minister’, Andrew Rawlings.

It is encouraging that amidst the restrictions of the Covid-19 pandemic there are still those ready to ’Stand up, stand for Jesus’! It is especially heartening to see quite a few young people supporting the witness.

May the following report be a blessing on this Sabbath Day.

Read more


Free Presbyterians to Protest against Sodomites

The following article appeared in today’s ‘Belfast Telegraph’.

It reveals the plans of perversion-supporters in Mid-Ulster, led by Church of Ireland ‘minister’, ‘Reverend’ Andrew Rawding, to mount a protest parade in Cookstown, Co. Tyrone, on Saturday 19th at 3.00pm, in support of the moral plague of sodomy that is afflicting the world.

Free Presbyterians plan a counter-protest. Please pray that many will support the effort by their presence and for the Lord’s blessing on their witness against the actions of those who seek to promote the wickedness of sodomites and their allied degenerates. Read more


Sodom embraced and sanctioned

Below are two articles on the same shameful subject – the nation’s rush to embrace and sanction the wickedness which damned Sodom!!

One report contains the announcement of and the words of rejoicing over the fact that from today a change in the law permits ‘religious ‘same-sex marriages’ in Northern Ireland.

The second report contains a warning from a Christian politician, Mr Jim Wells.

Christian, please take heed to “the signs of the times” as the saviour demands of us, Matthew 16:1-4. The sky is darkening and “the night cometh, when no man can work,” John 9:4.

It is time for God’s people to heed the exhortation of Paul in Romans 13:11-14. Read more


The ‘tears’ of Martin McGuinness

The following is a report in ‘The Belfast Telegraph’ of a new documentary on the life of Martin McGuinness which is to be shown on RTE on this Wednesday evening. It will serve to show that he was a hypocritical liar who lived to murder and terrorise.

I found it especially grieving that the wife of the late Dr Ian Paisley was quoted as saying: “Baroness Eileen Paisley, the widow of former DUP leader Ian Paisley, with whom McGuinness formed an unlikely friendship, said he “did his best to bring peace and reconciliation and succeeded in a large measure.”

She recalled how he had been “tearful” as he paid his respects to her husband following his death in September 2014. “He bowed his head over the coffin and said to me that he had lost a friend,” she said.

“I thought that said more than anything else that could be said.”

I find these words so impossible to understand, coming especially from one who claims to believe the Bible! For the tears of Martin McGuinness at the coffin of Dr Paisley to be considered in any way genuine, one would have to have seen tears shed over the coffins of the many, many innocent victims, Roman Catholic and Protestant, whose deaths he was responsible for! Read more


Veteran doctor who lost tribunal after disagreeing with transgenderism ‘disturbed’ by new rules for NI workers

A doctor who found himself out of a job after objecting to transgender terminology says he is “very disturbed” by new rules which effectively compel Northern Irish civil servants to use such terms.

Dr David Mackereth, a Christian physician of 31 years’ experience, said such rules will not end with the Northern Ireland Civil Service, but are likely to start appearing across all workplaces.

He was speaking after the News Letter revealed this week that in 2019, while there was no government in place, officials altered the rule book for the civil service so that all 23,000 workers must use whatever “names and pronouns” a transgender individual wants – and breaching the policy can lead to disciplinary action. Read more


Northern Ireland Civil Service leaders aid the defiance of God which the so-called ‘Transgenderism’ movement engenders!

The newspaper report that spurred me to write, makes alarming reading. Use transgender pronouns or face possible dismissal: new guidelines for NI’s 23,000 civil servants.

Without any apparent authority, bureaucratic pen-pushers can change the terms of employment for some 23,000 individuals and require them to submit to an ungodly diktat or face the sack!

We are moving ever nearer the day when the profession of Christ and His Law will be outlawed. Read more

August 2020

Audio sermons


KICS assembly talks.

  • Bright and shining lights in the Bible. Kilskeery Independent Christian School will be fully reopened from Monday 31st August and Rev Ivan Foster will continue his School Assembly messages each Tuesday and Friday DV, starting from from Tuesday 1st September. See all the talks in this series here.
  • Download a zip file of all the recent studies in the Parables here.
  • See all the KICS assembly talks listed here

Featured series on the Book of Ephesians: The Unsearchable Riches of Christ

Part 50- 3-fold mark of maturity Part 51- The depravity of mankind, pt 1. Part 52- The depravity of mankind, pt 2 Part 53- The depravity of mankind, pt 3 Part 54- New life in Christ part 1 Part 55- New life in Christ, part 2 Part 56- New life in Christ, pt 3 Part 57- Imitating God, Pt 1 Part 58- Imitating God, Pt 2 Part 59- Imitating God, Pt 3

(See all the messages in the series here)


Recent messages

The Coronavirus Crisis, a Foretaste of what is to come Pt1. Kilskeery FPC, August 9th, 2020. Rev. Ivan Foster

The Coronavirus Crisis, a Foretaste of what is to come Pt2. Kilskeery FPC, August 9th, 2020. Rev. Ivan Foster

Watch Kilskeery Free Presbyterian services live online here

 

The evil rumour-monger at work today

Of late I have had my attention drawn to some of the many deceptions which purport to set forth God’s truth on the ‘Covid-19 crisis’!

I must say that I have found much that is utterly silly beyond words.

I heard of one who reasoned that face masks should not be used because masks are used in ‘voodoo rituals’! We might add another reason to such an argument against the use of face masks, bank robbers usually wear them!! It should be noted that this form of ‘voodoo’ has been practised in hospital theatres for a very long time!

How foolish are such notions!

I have attempted in the following article to highlight just how gullible man is and how ready he is to swallow every daft idea that the devil sends his way. But, at the same time, the glorious truth of God is rejected as absolute madness. Read more


The personified bitterness of IRA hatred

The following letter was printed in today’s ‘Belfast Newsletter’ in response to a recent statement by one of Sinn Fein’s must splenetic and bitter members. She was guilty of a vitriolic ‘twitter’ attack upon victims of terrorism and the scheme to offer them some form of compensation. She later apologised and removed the comments by order of ‘Michelle O’Neill, her Sinn Fein ‘boss’!

Here is a link to a report of her comments.

Anderson was convicted of being an IRA terrorist conspiring to cause explosions in 1985 and sentenced to life in prison. She was released 13 years later as a condition of the Good Friday Agreement and subsequently became involved in politics for Sinn Féin.
She is seen as one of the most deeply cantankerous and crabbit Irish Republicans. Read more

Appendix: Below is a recording of a report given at the evening service in Kilskeery Free Presbyterian Church on the Sabbath after the Enniskillen bombing, Lord’s Day 15th November 1987, by the father mentioned in the letter published in the Belfast Newsletter, a copy of which we just sent out to you.

I am sure that you will find it a blessing!

The sermon that I preached that evening entitled, ‘My prayer for the Enniskillen bombers’ is included in the recording.




A breakfast of humble pie

It is clear that Michelle O’Neill and her party have had a most ill-tasting breakfast of ‘humble pie’ this Friday morning.

Not a great start to the day!

However, many trust that it is the start of a bringing down and a reining in of this undemocratic, law-defying bunch of terrorism-supporting malcontents which have plagued our country for a very long time indeed!

Sadly, this has been brought about, not by the party that decades ago boastfully paraded around promising to ’Smash Sinn Fein’ only to go on to elevate that which it promised to smash to a position of government by entering a power-sharing agreement with it. Read more


Michelle O’Neill accused of ‘ignoring rule of law’ and in court for opposing sodomite ‘marriage’!

Below are two reports which are of interest to any who follow events in Northern Ireland with prayerful concern.

Is it not wonderful to see a Judge who seems to be awake on his bench!! One, Mr Justice McAlinden, is the judge in question!

What he said about Sinn Fein Stormont leader is noteworthy in that it is the nearest that I can recall Sinn Feiner Michelle O’Neill being given her rightful pedigree!

How could one who leads a party that most of us believe is the IRA wearing political garb, which has supported, endorsed, sanctioned, eulogised, approved of and celebrated its every act of terrorism and murder, ever be anything other than one who ignores the law! Read more


Half a century since republicans killed first RUC men of Troubles

Below is a report from today’s “Belfast Newsletter” that will bring back sad memories to many of my age group.

It seems as if it was only yesterday we ended each day listening to the 11.55 pm late night local BBC news report. The news often left you to seek sleep praying for another family or families bereaved at the hands of wicked murderers!

Those were terrible times indeed which have been mocked by the actions of today’s politicians entering into a political agreement with those deeply engaged in that time of terror and anarchy!

It will abide as a shame upon our little Province that Unionism granted governmental power to the IRA terrorists as a reward for their cruel wickedness and we continue to daily submit to having our faces rubbed in the dirt as the likes of Sinn Fein leader, Michelle O’Neil, rejoices in and celebrates those heinous crimes of slaughter and butchery! Read more


Northern Ireland’s 100th anniversary

I am attaching below a statement in which Jim Allister, TUV leader, speaks out regarding the disaster taking shape before our eyes, of the form of the 100th anniversary of what God’s praying people 100 years ago considered a mighty answer to prayer, when the six north eastern counties that presently make up Northern Ireland, were delivered from being part of a Roman Catholic dominated 26 counties Irish Free State, later to be renamed as ‘The Irish Republic’.

If the ‘celebration’ of this historic event is left in the hands of the politicians, then it will be truly a disaster!

The Lord will get no mention yet the motto of our forefathers in the battle to remain British was ‘For God and Ulster”! Read more


IRA as evil as any Chinese activities – letter submitted to Belfast Newsletter (August 13th, 2020).

Sir,

You rightly criticise in your “Opinion” article of today, the response of the ’two leaders’ here at Stormont for their pathetically weak response to the use made by the Chinese representative in Northern Ireland of their ambiguous comment on China’s tyranny in Hong Kong.

However, how can we expect anything more forthright from a Unionist leader who joins hands with those who engaged in a tyranny every bit as wicked as that employed by China in Hong Kong?

The Sinn Fein/IRA campaign which began 50 years ago, may not match in measure the campaign of China but it was just as evil and anti-democratic as anything that China has engaged in. The cruelty, violence, lies, deceit, chicanery and two-faced hypocrisy which mark the Chinese activities in Hong Kong are a mere adopting of the tactics of those with whom Arlene Foster is now in coalition!

It would be difficult therefore for these two ‘ladies’ to condemn that which is a mere facsimile of that which one freely engaged in and the other cravenly capitulated to in order to obtain power and money for her increasingly disreputable party!!

Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)

Kilskeery, Co. Tyrone.

An edited form of this letter appeared in print. See it here.


God or the Scientist – Whom do YOU believe????

While I scanned the news reports online recently, I saw the following headline on a BBC article.

Katie Mack: ‘Knowing how the universe will end is freeing’”

I quickly glimpsed through it (as you do when you come upon evil-smelling rubbish) and thought that I must write something in which I would set over against the ravings of this woman the glorious TRUTH of God!

The article tells us that Katie Mack grew up in Los Angeles. That city is home to the ‘Hollywood entertainment industry’, the epicentre of myth and fairytales and every unclean fantasy of mankind! It is in keeping with such an environment that a citizen of that location should propound the nonsense that is to be found in this BBC article.

Here are some of the statements found in it.

“Terms like ‘heat death’, ‘big rip’ and ‘vacuum decay’ don’t sound all that inviting. And they aren’t. They describe a few of the theories scientists have about how our universe will one day die. But when cosmologist Katie Mack thinks about the end of everything, it gives her peace. Read more


John Hume is dead.

The death of John Hume, I find, is a solemnising event. Solemn because I think of what the man stated he believed and the actions he took in his life.

He is now in eternity. All he ever believed, his faith in the lies of Rome, have been tested by the ‘Judge of all the earth’ Who ever does what is right and true!

I cannot but contemplate in silence what that means. However, the deceit that is proclaimed by news outlets regarding the man must be challenged and the truth of God upheld.

That we seek to do in this little article to some degree. May the Lord be pleased to bless it to the hearts of all who read it. Read more


There are always two sides to every story!

A friend compiled the following articles in response to the fawning tributes printed in the press following the recent tragic death of three family members. I felt that I had to share them with you for they give an insight into the true nature of that, which one who loves holiness and truth must face every day in our land!

We are unwilling to meekly and silently accept the attempt to picture one of the victims of the recent traffic accident as a ’lovely, caring’ individual, given his history of terrorist involvement and must protest at this whitewashing of one who in life was an IRA terrorist, one who took part in the 1970s filthy ‘blanket protest’. He was far from what many would have us believe of him, as they eulogise him in death! Read more


God’s truth under attack

I feel compelled to respond to the article referred to below. It seems to me, I may be mistaken, but such newspaper ’scribblings’ seem to go unchallenged to a very large degree!

I would like therefore to offer something by way of a rebuttal to the ungodly tenor of this news report!

There appeared two related articles on The “BelfastLive” news website today, one of which had the headline:

PSNI launches investigation into “homophobic literature” posted to NI homes

This investigation resulted from a complaint by Independent Councillors Barry Monteith and Dan Kerr. They objected to the fact that the Mid-Ulster Christian Helpline, the publishers of the leaflet causing the protest, is listed on the Mid-Ulster Council website. The police are now investigating the matter. The literature was posted to some homes in the Magherafelt area. Another article on the same website related to the subject contained a photograph of the leaflet causing the stir. Read more


Ulster ‘Protestantism’ has fallen on hard times!

What can be said when a professing ‘evangelical Protestant’ is paid to spread popish propaganda in a Romanist newspaper???!!! Ulster ‘Protestantism’ has fallen on hard times!

Fee of £200 to write an article praising pro-life Catholics is a standard payment: Paisley
By Gillian Halliday, July 31 2020 07:30 PM

Ian Paisley has said a £200 payment that he received from a religious publication (The Catholic Herald – IF) to write a platform piece praising pro-life Catholics is a “standard fee”.

The article, which appeared online last month, revealed the DUP MP’s admiration that Catholics who take the stance are not “embarrassed” to stand up for their views on the controversial issue.

The payment was logged on the House of Commons’ Register of Members’ Financial Interests, which provides information about any financial interest a Member has, or any benefit they receive.