Why the threat of court action will not stop us protesting against Dublin rule

"But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake," Luke 21:12.

Message preached in Kilskeery FPC by Rev Ivan Foster at the evening service on 16th Feb 1986.

(Sermons preached in former years in Kilskeery Free Presbyterian Church against national apostasy. Preaching the message of salvation through faith alone, in Christ alone, by grace alone must ever be coupled and joined with earnest contending for the faith against the lies and errors of the devil and his agents.)

Amongst all the great crusaders for the truth and liberty none stand higher than the apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ. The message they went forth to preach to all nations is called "the perfect law of liberty," James 1:25.

It is that "liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free," Galatians 5:1.

They took the gospel into all the known world and planted churches in every country they entered. Such success was not accomplished without great cost. They were resisted and despised and abused and persecuted.

The warnings that Christ had given them were fully justified, John 15:18-20; 16:33. These men and women were storming the Kingdom of Darkness and it was resisting fiercely. The devil will use every institution at his disposal, the religious leaders, the political leaders and the machinery of the state.

Presently in Ulster, we see such being used against the cause of light and truth.