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January 2020

Audio sermons


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

  • Part 16, Part 17, Part 18
  • 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 10- The purpose of God Pt 3 Part 11- The inheritance of saints Pt1 Part 12- The inheritance of saints Pt2 Part 13- The inheritance of saints Pt3

(See all the messages in the series here)


Other sermons

The great folly of a good man, Pt1 Message by Rev. Foster in Newtownabbey FPC, December 29th, 2019.

The great folly of a good man, Pt2. Message by Rev. Foster in Newtownabbey FPC, December 29th, 2019.

God's answer to despondency Message by Rev. Foster in Kilskeery FPC, September 1st, 2005 at the quarterly communion service

The First Communion Feast Message by Rev. Foster at the quartlertly Communion sdrvice and time of prayer in Kilskeery FPC, Jan 5th, 2020.

Praying against our enemies Message by Rev. Foster at Kilskeery FPC prayer meeting

 

Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey suggests slight increase in support for Irish unity and cross-community support for abortion reform

Here is a link to data, send to me by a Christian friend, that clearly suggests that the DUP are moving more and more to a secular position on moral matters and rejecting what the Bible teaches on abortion – which is in truth, the ‘murder of unborn children’!

May the Lord in mercy awaken Free Presbyterian supporters of this increasingly anti-Bible political party and cause them to obey God and no longer deny the stand of the FPC and the teaching of the Word of God.


The DUP and Ulster Unionists have missed numerous opportunities to point out that republican conduct made power sharing indefensible

This letter, which appeared in the “Belfast Newsletter” of January 3rd, touches upon the matter which is assiduously avoided by the two ‘unionist’ parties.

Both have ceased to treat Sinn Fein/IRA for what they are – enemies of Northern Ireland who will use any means to destroy it and bring about a united Ireland.

The DUP representative, ’Sir’ Jeffrey Donaldson, was recently interviewed on television in the presence of sinn Feiner and convicted IRA terrorist, Gerry Kelly. Despite Kelly’s blatantly deceitful republican propaganda, spouted automaton-like when he was interviewed, Donaldson made no attempt to confront his lies. To do so, of course, ‘might cause a split’ so ‘doormat’ Donaldson remained silent!!

May the Lord save us from enemies and traitors!


The fires in Australia and its laws on same-sex marriage and abortion – Is there a link?

The Bible throughout its divinely inspired pages states most clearly that there is an indissoluble link between sin and God’s judgment!
An Australian footballer, Israel Folau, was the subject of much abuse for stating that there was a link between the bush fires which have devastated large areas of Australia and caused the deaths of an increasing number of people, and the nation’s adoption of same-sex marriage laws and the legalising of abortion.

He was absolutely correct in this matter! The Bible states and history shows that sin is ALWAYS followed by God’s judgment! Read more


Is ‘sodomy’ just another sin????

And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly,” 2 Peter 2:6.

Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire,” Jude 7.

It has been said by members of the Democratic Unionist Party, in an effort to defend and excuse the Party’s decision to support and endorse a sodomite as one of their candidates in the Local Government elections in May 2019, that ‘sodomy is just another sin and if we are to throw out all who sin in the DUP we would be left with no one!’

This sounds very plausible, especially when stated by a lawyer! However, like the ‘lawyers’ whom Christ encountered, this one also comes under the condemnation He issued against them. “But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God . . . ,” Luke 7:30. Read more

December 2019

Audio sermons


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

  • Part 13, Part 14, Part 15
  • 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 8- The purpose of God Pt1 Part 9- The purpose of God Pt 2 Part 10- The purpose of God Pt 3

(See all the messages in the series here)


Sunday Services

The great folly of a good man, Pt1. Message by Rev. Foster in Newtownabbey FPC, December 29th, 2019.

All audio sermons can be seen here.

 

A word from the Bible on ‘global warming’ and ‘climate change’.

There has been much written of late on the subject of ‘Climate Change’ and the state of the environment.

A teenager from Sweden, Miss Greta Thunberg, has been to the fore. Her profile and prominence is mainly a creation of the media, but she does embody a growing concern about what MAN has done and is doing to this world!

Weather patterns may indeed move in cycles but plastic and rubbish in the oceans is not an cyclical occurrence and cannot be dismissed lightly!
However, the Bible tells us authoritatively and clearly what lies ahead in the not too distant future. It reveals the judgments of God which will come upon this morally corrupt earth, corrupted by the hand of man.

Man’s sin is ALWAYS followed by God’s JUDGMENT AND WRATH! That is a despised and mocked truth but a truth nevertheless. Read more


Lords over God’s heritage

The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away,” 1 Peter 5:14.

These words came before me when I read the story of the retirement of Cardinal Angelo Sodano, who is 92 years old. He is described as the Cardinal who ‘sought a deal’ to bury sex abuse documents, held by the Vatican, during the Irish ‘Commission of Inquiry’ into the abuse of children by Roman Catholic clerics some years ago.

A report in the ‘Irish Times’ continues: “Last year, prior to the visit of Pope Francis to Ireland, former president Mary McAleese revealed that Cardinal Sodano tried in November 2003 to secure, through her, agreement that Ireland would not attempt to access church documents in Commissions of Inquiry surrounding the handling of allegations of clerical sex abuse then underway.

Describing the encounter as ‘one of the most devastating moments in my presidency’, it occurred during a State visit to Italy when she had a private meeting with then Vatican secretary of state Angelo Sodano. Read more


The truly scriptural way to celebrate the birth of Christ.

A synopsis of two sermons preached in Kilskeery Free Presbyterian Church on December 20th, 1998 and January 3rd, 1999 by the minister, Rev. Ivan Foster.

The birth of Christ has been the centre of celebration since it was first announced in Genesis 3:15. And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Here is the first mention of the seed of the woman, the promise of a divine Saviour. That it was deemed a reference to a Redeemer may be seen in Adam immediately afterwards naming his wife, Eve , which means life , Gen 3:20. The darkness of the great curse that befell Adam and Eve was lightened by the promise contained in God’s words to the devil.

Eve’s name was testimony to the hope entertained by Adam that a Saviour would one day be born Who would redeem sinners from the curse of a broken law. Read more


For all that Christ is for and against all that Christ is against.

Some 31 years ago, on 29th February, 1988, the 350th anniversary of the signing of the National Covenant in Scotland, the Free Presbyterian Church signed a Covenant, a copy of which likely hangs in every Free Presbyterian Church.

Perhaps it should be sought out and read again, so that we might rightly recall what it is we committed our ourselves to!

The Covenant begins as follows:

“As God providentially raised up Elijah, we believe He is now calling out a faithful remnant to maintain a testimony, free from compromise against every opposition of the enemy.

As a separated Church of God, sinners saved by grace and born again of the Holy Spirit, conscious of the violation of God’s commandments so rampant in this evil age, and conscious also that we could have a name to live and are dead, we humble ourselves before God and solemnly covenant together, by His grace, to stand with Christ in this evil day, for all that He is for, and against all that He is against.” Read more….


Some Christians need to change their attitude toward Christian education

“Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph. The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live,” Acts 7:18-19.

It is sadly true that the spirit in this text is to be seen at work today amongst Christian parents. In the days referred to it is clear that the thinking of Israelite parents, faced by the threat of Pharaoh, was one in which they deemed it wiser to comply with the evil monarch and sacrifice their children to his wrath!

Is such a spirit evident today? I believe so, though it will astound many and anger many more that I should say so! Pharaoh dealt ’subtilly’ with Israel. That is he set out to conquer them by stealth and deceit. Read more


Pro-LGBT event in Enniskillen Church of Ireland cathedral

Further evidence of the increasing prevalence of spokespeople for the sodomite movement in the church came on Monday night this week, when the LGBT organisation JustLOVE held what was described as an “LGBT affirming faith event” at St Macartin’s Hall in Enniskillen.

This is the church hall owned by the Church of Ireland’s St Macartin’s Cathedral in Enniskillen.

The driving force behind this JustLOVE event was none other than sodomite ‘Pride’ parading Rev Andrew Rawding (pictured), who will tonight (Thursday Nov. 28th) host in his rectory a meeting of a new LGBT group, Mid Ulster Pride. Read more on the Protestant Revival website

November 2019

Audio sermons


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

Bringing the King back: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

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

Part 3- Christ - God's treasure chest Part 4- Chosen in Christ, the first blessing Part 5- Redemption by the blood Part 6- Effectual calling Pt1 Part 7- Effectual calling Pt2

(See all the messages in the series here)


All audio sermons can be seen here.
 

 

William Matchett: ‘Collusion – probably the best fake news story in the world’

On Brexit, facts and claims that are checked by the media expose chancers and charlatans to highlight lies, smears and misrepresentation. This healthy scepticism is spectacularly missing in the legacy of Northern Ireland’s past.

For the 50th anniversary of the start of the Troubles 12 hours by the national broadcaster. Although the top security experts were chief constables like Sir Ken Newman and Sir John Hermon, their strategic view was not transmitted.

What aired excluded the security element of a government strategy led by police and steered by police intelligence for nearly all of the Troubles. Read more


My response to a reply to my letter run by the Irish News

The recent letter I sent to the ‘Belfast Telegraph’ about same-sex marriage billboards erected in Belfast, and also to the ‘Irish News’ in Belfast, a Nationalist newspaper, has had a response printed in the ‘Irish News’.

Here is that response along with my answer to the folly and ignorance of the writer, Nick Canning. Read more


The unravelling of society!

“We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long,” Psalm 74:9.

I have just turned away from the lunchtime news with a heavy heart and a fresh awareness of the immeasurable mess our nation is in!

In truth, in recent times, every news broadcast and media outlet has borne testimony to the same dire diagnosis. There is no longer any good news and what is deemed such by the media is but further evidence of the utter corruption at the heart of society. Read more


Doing things God’s way

Good ideas are often spoiled by ignorance. It was a most admirable idea on David’s part that the Ark of the Covenant be brought to its proper place. “And let us bring again the ark of our God to us.” The Protestant religion is one ‘ever reforming’! There is a Latin phrase, dating back to the Reformation. ‘Ecclesia reformata, semper reformanda’ – the church reformed, always reforming. It refers to the conviction of certain Reformed Protestant theologians that the church must continually re-examine itself in order to maintain its purity of doctrine and practice.
The Lord often describes His people as ‘sheep’. Sheep ever go astray. That is their nature! “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way,” Isaiah 53:6. That being so, we are ever in need of being brought back to the right paths and to that ordered by the Lord for our good. Read more


How long before the whole Bible is banned????

An article appeared in the media over the weekend which supplies Christians with yet another reason to recognise the advance of darkness and rebellion in our nation.

The report centres upon the police requiring a Christian to take down a text with the words  ‘The blood of Jesus Christ’! 
It was not a statement of a man’s making but the very words of God, words that lie at the very centre of the Gospel of Christ.
John the apostle wrote:  “The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin,” 1 John 1:7.

The police and those behind them responsible for this action have progressed from removing signs displaying legitimate conclusions and assertions, based upon God’s Word about the false religions and perverted views that men promote.

Now it is even an offence to display the words of God. Read more


Promised you a miracle

Below is an article from the Belfast Telegraph of 16th November that highlights the blindness, superstition, hypocrisy and folly that have dominated the minds of Irish men and women who have followed devotedly the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church!

Where there was a rejection of the ‘apparitions’ and so-called ‘miracles’ referred to in the article, it was born out of a rejection of God altogether and not out of a love of the truth of God, set forth in the Holy Scriptures.

All one can say is, “Poor Ireland. How we need to pray for her people”! 

The 100 years since these incidents have seen the Roman Catholic Church inflict even more horrors upon those who have followed faithfully the teachings of the monstrous deception of popery! Countless thousands in Ireland have now forsaken all belief in God because of the wicked and devilish abuse that the ‘Church’ they trusted with their souls and their children, betrayed them so utterly! 

The result of that is that their “latter end is worse with them than the beginning”! Read more


The Church of England’s governing body has voted to look into special services for transgender people.

“Supporters of the services said the Church should offer a welcome to people to mark their transition. Others have suggested the services would be counter to parts of the Bible that state that humans are created as either male or female.”

That such a vote should be passed, apparently with little opposition and with euphoria on the part of the supporters of this wickedness, indicates the utter abandonment of God’s Word that has taken place within the Church of England. It should be noted that even those opposed to the decision are reported as suggesting that the new ‘transgender services’ “would be counter to parts of the Bible that state that humans are created as either male or female.”
Note that the opponents merely ‘suggest’ that the new series would be counter to the Bible when in fact they are utterly and diametrically opposed to God’s Holy Word.

The proposer of this perverse motion said, after it was passed, “Synod has changed – we have turned a corner.” 

This decision indicates the depths of the apostasy of the State Church. God’s Word is rejected and the evil lie of the devil embraced, and that with only the merest ‘whimper’ from the so-called ‘evangelicals’ within the Church.

That being so, we can be assured that God’s judgment is not far away. Read the BBC report.


Christ reviving His church right up to the end of the age

“Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah: . . . Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again,” 2 Chronicles 34:24, 28.

In this age, there will be a final generation who will witness the return of Christ in power and great glory to the earth. Paul said: “For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent (go before) them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord,” 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17. Read more….


Attempt to blacken the witness of the gospel

An article has appeared in the ‘Belfast Telegraph’ of Novemeber 11th which contains, I believe, a wicked attempt to link the Free Presbyterian Church with the sins of a man recently convicted as a paedophile.

While giving details of the convicted man’s connections to the Orange Order and the Democratic Unionist Party, and their distancing themselves from him, the writer of the article simply states that the Free Presbyterian Church in north Armagh at one time considered “the shamed 65-year-old a valued member.” It is further said that the man, Ivan Russell, was “a regular attendee at Sunday services in Lurgan Free Presbyterian Church with his wife Muriel.” 

It is to be noted that in the article his attendance at Lurgan Free Presbyterian Church is referred to in the ‘past tense’! In this at least the writer speaks the truth. In fact he ceased attendance at the church quite a few years ago, some twelve years to be exact. Mr Russell was never a member of the Free Presbyterian Church, though such a detail is of scant importance to a newspaper man!

I am reminded of Judas! He ‘at one time’ was considered ‘a valued member’ of the apostolic band but then he was expelled as a traitor. (“Judas Iscariot, which also was the traitor,” Luke 6:16.) Read more


The wounds and madness that Ecumenism inflicts

The following three articles from the ‘Belfast Newsletter’ website (Nov 7) highlights the terrible deceitfulness of Sinn Fein/IRA and its ungoing and unchanged murderous attitude toward the innocent whom it deems is worthy of slaughter.

It was engaged in a campaign of ‘genocide’ against the Protestant people in the border areas and elsewhere and honours still all those who engaged in that campaign of terror. The man guilty of the ‘Shankill Road Bombing’, in which ten people were killed, two of whom were children and one was an IRA bomber, was Sean Kelly. He will be canvassing for the Sinn Fein candidate in the forthcoming Westminster election. The SDLP will be supporting Sinn Fein’s candidate. Read more


Irish Presbyterian apostasy

The article below appeared in today’s (Nov. 6th, 2019) “Belfast Telegraph”. It clearly indicates the shameful departure that there is within the Presbyterian Church in Ireland when there are those who are prepared to side publicly with a sodomite ‘elder’ who was disciplined for being in a ‘sodomite marriage’!!!!

It is to be noted that the objection of the sodomite and in which he was supported by these protesters, was against the ‘policy’ of his denomination.
There is no recognition that it is God’s Word that denounces sodomy and declares it to be an ‘abomination’. “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination,” Leviticus 18:22. Read more


Report of a visit to Canada and the USA by Rev. Ivan Foster just 47 years ago.

He was part of a delegation of FP ministers who visited North America in October/November 1972. Rev James Beggs, Rev William Beattie and Rev S B Cooke were also part of the delegation.

Taken from “The Revivalist” report of the visit.

The invitation to join the deputation from the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster in a visit to America and Canada was certainly a privilege. Nevertheless, because of the recent opening of our new church in Enniskillen I was loth to be absent from my pulpit when our congregation was making every effort to fill our new building. However, as I prayed about the matter I was reminded of some advice given by Jordan Khan, a faithful servant of the Lord, who preached some time ago in our churches. He had said that if ever we received an invitation to preach in Europe or U.S.A. we should accept it, for God had surely given the Free Presbyterian Church a message for the world. The more I thought about this, the more I felt convinced that I should go, even if it were not for the full four weeks. I was supported in this by my elders, so I gladly agreed to go for three weeks. Read more


Letter submitted to Belfast Telegraph about same-sex marriage billboards erected in Belfast

See the November 7th news report here.

Sir,

It has been reported in your newspaper today that there are “Same-sex marriage billboards put up in Belfast.” 
In the article, Northern Ireland Humanists coordinator Boyd Sleator is quoted as saying: “LGBT people in Northern Ireland have suffered for too long under archaic laws influenced by religious groups which have prevented same-sex couples from being able to legally marry.”

His statement caused me to think that if he, as a Humanist is wrong in his rejection of Bible Christianity (and he is) then he will discover that eternity will bring even more immeasurable suffering under even more “archaic laws”, even the law of God, to those who reject God’s truth!

The Bible says of all who reject God’s Law and His order and purpose for humanity, that they shall suffer as did their ideological forebears in Sodom and Gomorrha! Jude verse 7 states: “Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.”

The message of the Lord Jesus Christ is clear. “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. 

Time will declare which philosophy, the Christian’s or Mr Sleator’s,  is true. The putting up of any amount of billboards will not alter truth or annul God’s divine decree!

Sincerely,

Rev Ivan Foster (Rtr)
Kilskeery, Co. Tyrone.


I dare call it murder

In 1984, there was an attempt to introduce the 1967 Abortion Act, then currently law in the rest of the UK, to Northern Ireland.

I introduced a motion in the Northern Ireland Assembly in Stormont, opposing its introduction.

What I said was valid then and valid still today. Indeed, given the recently imposed abortion legislation that Westminster has forced upon Northern Ireland whereby abortion right up until ‘the point of birth’ is now legal, it is even more relevant!

We wrote about the imposition of this abortion legislation in the article: The cruel and obscene wickedness about to be imposed upon Northern Ireland

We commend to you the 1984 article and encourage you to circulate it amongst friends.