Gracious Heavenly Father, we thank Thee this evening hour for this house where we are met
tonight to worship Thee in spirit and in truth, to listen to Thy Word read, and to declare the truth
and contend for the faith.
We pray that tonight Thou wouldst bless Thy holy Word to our hearts.
We thank Thee that the entrance of Thy Word giveth light.
And we pray that tonight man and woman may get light from Thy precious Word.
We live in a day of darkness, a day of deception, a day of deceit, a day of shallowness among the
people of God, a day of light religion, a day of frivolity in God's house.
O God, we pray that tonight as we listen to Thy truth, that Thy truth shall set us free and we
will know that freedom and emancipation that is of the Lord.
We pray tonight to give us understanding of the times, that we'll know what Israel has to do in
this evil day.
And we pray that we'll stand true and faithful to the Lord Jesus Christ and to His truth.
We pray, our God and Father, that Thou wouldst take our thanks for Thy blessing upon us this day,
for Thy presence this morning in the prison service, for Thy presence in this house as we
minister the Word, for Thy rich presence in Bellomena.
Thank Thee for many people here in the meeting tonight, and they were in Bellomena this afternoon
and got gloriously saved by God's grace.
And this is their first service in God's house as a believer.
And your joy of God is upon them.
We pray for that dear woman from Dungannon and her daughter who came to Christ this afternoon.
We thank Thee, our God and Father, for those that came last Sunday night.
There's a breath of revival amongst us.
There's the sound of abundance of reign.
But, O God, we pray that Thou wouldst release Thy power this evening and grant that many, many may
be the slain of the Lord.
Remember this island home of ours.
Remember this province that we love, land of our fathers.
Give us not over as a prey to our enemies.
Send to this land a great revival of true religion.
And grant, O God, that we will see in this day a great and a wonderful deliverance.
Smite Popery.
Smite the ecumenical movement.
Smite the deceivers.
Smite the Irish Republican Army.
Bring to naught the plans of wicked men against us.
And grant that the Lord may deliver His people and that this land may have upon it the signal
blessing of Almighty God.
We thank Thee that we can say from the depths of our hearts, God is on the throne and He doeth all
things well.
So be with us this night for Christ's sake.
And the people of God said, Amen.
You may be seated.
We are going to read the Word of God now as we find it recorded for us in II Thessalonians.
II Thessalonians chapter 2 and verse 1.
There are Bibles in front of you and the pure make use of them.
They are there for your use and edification.
II Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 1.
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together
unto Him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor
by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away
first.
The great apostasy precedes the second coming of our Lord and Jesus, the coming of our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ.
Falling away.
From those Greek words we get the word apostasy.
Apostasy.
Falling away.
A departure from the truth.
And that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.
He opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he as
God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
Remember ye not that when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work, only he who now let it will let, until he be taken
out of the way.
Then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and
shall destroy with the brightness of his coming.
Even him whose coming is after the working of sin, with all power, and signs, and lying wonders, and
with all deceivableness of unrighteousness, in them that carry, because they receive not the love
of the truth, that they might be saved.
For this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie.
In the original adapted article, it is there that they should believe the lie, that they all might
be damned to believe not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
And God shall add his blessing to this reading from the infallible book.
For his name's sake, amen.
Let's bow our heads.
I take the promised Holy Ghost, the blessed power of Pentecost, to fill me to the uttermost.
I take, thank God he undertakes for me, and the people of God's sake.
Amen.
There is no doubt about it that this is an age of deception.
It is a great thing that we are not searching for authority today.
It is a great thing that our authority is the inspired, inerring, infallible Word of God.
That we don't need to turn to any preacher, to any parson or priest, to any church body, to any
church council, to any important ecclesiastical figure.
That we don't turn to hear the so-called infallible voice of a pope, or an archbishop, or
anyone else.
That we have the sure authority of God's Holy Word.
I don't know what we would do in this age, crazy age, when men are running here and there, and all
sorts of religious deceptions are abroad.
If we hadn't the sure foundation, the sheet anchor of God's eternal truth.
Let us turn to the second chapter of II Thessalonians.
And you will notice that in verse ten, it says, "...with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in
them that perish." I don't know any better description of the whole Roman Catholic system
than those words of Holy Scripture.
The practices and principles of Popery are with all deceivableness of unrighteousness.
At this morning service, a lady handed me a tape.
She said it was by one of the Baptist preachers, who didn't want any protest made, when the pope
was going to come to Northern Ireland.
And wrote in that line, first of all in the Irish Independent Press, and then in other newspapers.
I was amused when I listened to this tape.
The preacher said that no Christian had any right to protest.
And that no preacher had any right to preach about the pope.
And he went on to say that he didn't know one scripture in the Bible that would countenance
public protest.
I don't know what Bible he reached.
But I know this, that when you get a prominent evangelical Baptist preacher telling his
congregation that no Christian has any right to protest, that no preacher should preach against
the pope, and that the Bible nowhere countenances public protest against her, then I believe that we
are surely and most certainly in the last days.
Let me just say this tonight.
That preacher must never have read the Gospels.
He must never have studied the life of the greatest preacher of all.
He was the greatest preacher of all.
None other than the Lord Jesus Christ.
Did the Lord Jesus Christ believe in public protest and public demonstration?
Yes, sir.
He went into the temple.
He took a scourge of court.
He prepared a lash.
He tumbled over the temple of those that had polluted God's temple.
He laid his whip upon their backs.
And he cleansed the temple of God publicly from defilement.
And he didn't do it once.
He did it twice in his ministry.
If you know anything about the life of the Lord Jesus, you will know he cleansed the temple at the
commencement of his ministry.
And he cleansed it again at the end of his ministry.
So he commenced his ministry with a public protest.
And ended his ministry with a public protest.
What about Paul?
He was a good preacher, wasn't he?
He wrote more of the New Testament than any other human writer under the agency of the Holy Spirit.
He was the first man to organize a jail sit-in.
Did you know that?
A jail sit-in.
You see, they put them into prison wrongfully.
And then they wanted to slip them out in the morning and get them away.
But he said, I'm not going.
I'm sitting tight in this prison.
And they said, what will we do?
He said, the judges that put me in wrongfully will have to come from their magistrates' bench and
walk all the way to the prison and come in and say, please, Paul, come out.
He was a bit of a protester, wasn't he?
I wonder what the Baptist pastor would do with Paul.
I'm sure he wouldn't want a jailbird in his pulpit anyway.
But Paul was worse than a jailbird.
He organized a sit-in in prison.
I was so glad to get out, I didn't want to organize any sit-in.
The whole of the Bible tells us, have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness,
but rather reprove them.
And the word in the originals, publicly reprove them, publicly take them to task.
No wonder certain sections of the Baptist Church today are in a state of bewilderment, not knowing
what potpourri is about and what our Protestant heritage is about.
I had a young man with me, gloriously converted from the Roman Catholic Church, who is a member of
the Baptist Church, and he says, I have been saved from this system of Romanism.
God has delivered me from the lies of potpourri.
And here I discover that the people I'm fellowshipping with don't realize the darkness and
idolatry and priestcraft and superstition of this system.
So we would do well to remind ourselves tonight that it is the duty of every believer, and it is
the bounden duty of God's servant to stand in the evil day.
Of course, many people don't want to stand because of the reproach that comes as a result of the
stand.
Last night, our building, as you know, was stolen.
One of the plate-glass windows was smashed.
The authorities told me this morning that they would expect many more attacks on this building
during the Pope's visit, and that probably this would be a mounting campaign of such things.
It wouldn't at all surprise me.
Let us not think that that is anything, because the Church of Rome, if it had its full power,
wouldn't break windows, but would break the bones of the people of God, as she did in the past.
Don't think there's any change in the Roman Catholic Church.
There's another matter that I want to mention this evening by way of penance.
I welcome every voice that's raised against Romans.
I welcome every voice that's raised against the Pope's visit.
I welcome every voice that's raised against the machinations of Jesuitry.
But I must say, I am greatly disappointed when those voices are not loud and clear and strong the
way they ought to be.
A group of Irish Presbyterian ministers and laymen who were first organized for complete withdrawal
from the World Council of Churches, and then changed to an organization of concerted witness to
the Reformed faith within the Irish Presbyterian Church, had an advert in the newsletter yesterday.
The advert was drawing attention to the statements of the Confession of Faith.
But what amazed me, that when they referred to chapter twenty-five of the Confession, they
stopped their quotation before it came to the bite.
And they put in, there is no other head of the Church but the Lord Jesus Christ.
Full stop.
What's the rest of the Confession?
Nor can the Pope of Rome in any sense behead the wrath, but is that antichrist, that man of sin and
son of perdition, that exalted himself in the Church against Christ and all that is called God.
Surely that was a most appropriate thing to put in, if there were protests in the Pope's ministry.
But of course with that, there is a reproach.
And then I was greatly disturbed when Mr. Neely was questioned on downtime radio.
And when it was said, you say it's a sin, and he said, well that's maybe pitching it too high.
Although you're coping our own document.
He said, I would rather say it was sinful.
Well I think if you take the proper meaning of sinful, it's really worse than sin for it's full
of sin.
But I don't understand people, if you're not going to fight this battle, why start off drawing the
sword?
I have had Swiss television, Austrian television, German television, and Italian television.
And of course, the most Catholic country of all, RTE television with me.
And they all bring it up.
Why do you say the Pope is the Antichrist?
I said to a German reporter this week, did you ever hear of a German called Martin Luther?
And she blinked.
She blinked.
She didn't even know the history of her own country.
You would think that Ian Pearsley was the first person that ever called the Pope the Antichrist.
You'd think that I was the evil man, and in my evil mind, a hybrid of Romanism coined this
phrase.
It's about time we knew what the teaching, the traditional teaching, the biblical teaching, the
Christian teaching of the Protestant Churches were.
And I trust that we as a people will be well instructed in the faith and will know where we
stand on these issues.
Now, the Pope is coming to do two things.
We're told tonight he's going to talk about the H-Block.
Well, I want to say I don't want the Pope in Northern Ireland.
But I really believe I have...
He's going to make some reference.
He has been briefed.
We read by the Cardinal.
Let me say to you tonight, there are two things, and I'm coming now to the religious protest that
we must make.
There are two things that the Pope is going to do by us this evening.
He's not coming to Ulster, thank God.
Although Bill Jeffrey has announced that the Pope has invited him to meet him in Drogheda.
And he's going down, or is it Dundalk or Drogheda?
He's going down to Drogheda.
Maybe they'll allow Bill to carry the head of the blessed Oliver Plunkett.
Maybe they'll give him that job.
And he's going to invite the Pope in the name of the Ulster people.
With the soap coupons that he got.
He's going to bring them down and give them to the Pope.
And invite them to come to Northern Ireland.
Who gave Bill Jeffrey the right to invite the Pope to come to the United Kingdom?
He couldn't even gather up enough soap coupons to wash his face properly.
And then he says he's going to invite the Pope.
He's going down.
Of course, that's the Alliance Party.
The Alliance Party is only an appendix of potpourri anyway.
That's all it is.
But let me say, there are two things that are going to happen.
The spending of eighteen million.
That's what the reckon it's going to cost to bring them here and take them away again.
Three days visit.
Six million a day.
Pretty good money.
You could get a good a tale for that, I'm sure.
Now let me say this.
There are two things going to happen.
Number one.
Every place the Pope goes, there is going to be a mass.
And that mass is going to be publicly demonstrated across the Irish Republic, and no doubt across our
television sets, for the BBC will be tripping over themselves to get it.
Even our five o'clock news reports now is all about knock.
It would really sicken you, wouldn't it?
Think that we were part of the Republic.
I don't want to knock, knock who's there.
I do not want nothing to do with it.
But anyway, there is going to be the mass.
And secondly, the main reason why the Pope is coming is to celebrate the centenary of the
supposed apparition of Mary at Knock.
So two things are going to happen.
The central act of Roman worship, the mass, is going to be given great prominence.
Mary is going to be given great prominence.
And running parallel with that, the Pope as the vicar of Christ.
The word vicar means substitute for Christ.
I have in my hand a little leaflet handed out at all masses today in the Roman Catholic...
I wasn't there one time.
It was handed out today.
And there is a prayer.
Mary, Mother of the Church, intercede for our Holy Father John Paul, and for all the people of
Ireland, that his visit may bring us closer to your Son, our Lord Jesus.
Amen.
So they are all called to offer this prayer to Mary.
And then it tells us here, with great joy, we welcome our Holy Father, Pope John Paul, as he,
Christ's vicar on earth, travels through our country.
He speaks to us in Christ's name.
He who hears you, hears me.
Luke's Gospel, chapter 10, verse 16.
Rome is good at mistranslating and misinterpreting God's precious Word.
So we have these three things.
Could I just say to you this evening, as firmly as I possibly can, that I totally and absolutely
repudiate the claims that the Pope makes about this person.
There is a vicar of Christ on earth.
The vicar of Christ on earth, Christ of herself, is God the Holy Ghost.
This is the dispensation of the Holy Spirit.
If I go not away, the Comforter will not come.
But if I go away, the Comforter will come.
And the only vicar of Christ on earth is God the Holy Ghost.
And anybody who claims to be God the Holy Ghost, or the vicar of Christ on earth, has committed the
unpardonable sin.
Let's get this straight.
You read the Word of God.
Utter blasphemy for anybody to claim.
So I could not have anything to do with a religious leader who claims to be in the place of
Christ and to do the work of God the Holy Ghost.
Now, what do we find?
We find that the academical churches are going to meet him.
The archbishops and bishops of the Church of Ireland, they say it is a purely social occasion.
I do not know what sort of wine they are going to take, or what sort of cocktails will be passed
out, but they are going to make it a social occasion.
He is going to meet them before the Mass, and I am informed that they are all going to attend the
Mass after he meets up with them.
But the Methodists, because there happens to be a protest going on in the Methodist church, and
thank God here, there and yonder, independent Methodist churches are springing up, so the
Methodists have some trouble.
So they decided that they would give the Pope a letter.
And they would be Protestant, in that they would be showing to the people that they were not
accepting all that Papa did, that they were making their protest.
In fact, one of them said, Paisley is scared of the Pope, but we are not.
We are going to make our protest face to face.
Oh, but Papa said, you will do no such thing.
I am not coming to Ireland to receive papers from the Methodist church.
If you want to send me any communication, you will send it by post to the peoplenuncio.
And if he feels that I should look at it, I condescend to look at it.
One would have thought the Methodists would have as much spunk in them to say that is not
acceptable.
But what would they say?
Oh yes, Papa, that is wonderful, we will send the letter.
And the Methodist president announced that the letter was already sent.
The Presbyterians, the Irish Presbyterians, they have a little trouble in their hands because there
is a free Presbyterian church.
And they know that there is a place where those who are not going to go the ecumenical road can
find worship and the gospel preached and Christian fellowship.
Of course, the moderator of the Presbyterian church, Dr. Craig, and I would be churlish tonight
if I did not say, I am glad, I thank God that he has refused to meet the Pope.
I am sorry he had not been a bit more stronger, but at least he said, I am not going.
He is a wise man, he has left the country so that nobody will be able to pressurize him.
I am sure there have been a lot of pressures on him, so he went to Canada.
He is not a bug.
And Jack Weir is left in the saddle.
I think he is going to have a sort of unruly donkey like Balaam and his ass.
He is going to have trouble with it.
And the Presbyterians do not know now what to do.
Should we go because we are not allowed to give the Pope our paper?
Or should we send it through the papal nuncio?
And they do not know, they are going to announce this week what they are going to do.
Jack Weir has his way, they will be there.
Paper or no paper.
So we find the cellar.
But the amazing thing is that in these documents there was no mention of the two vital issues.
The Mass and Mary Oliver.
They talked about periphery things like mixed marriage.
Had nothing to do with the real controversy between Bible Protestantism and the Roman Catholic
Church.
Ah, this matter concerning Knock.
Told on the radio all about Knock.
That a hundred years ago, St. John, St. Joseph and Mary suddenly appeared at the gable wall of the
old church or chapel at Knock.
And they stayed there for over an hour and a half.
They stayed there.
And people stood in the room and watched.
And while they got wet, these apparitions never got wet.
And one woman grabbed the foot of Mary and she found there was nothing there.
It is most interesting.
Let me say something.
There is no Pope that has done more to elevate the worship of Mary than Pope John Paul.
The cult of Mary is stronger in the Roman Church than ever before.
I read three Roman Catholic newspapers every week just to find out what Papa is really doing.
And in the Catholic Herald of Friday, September the 14th, Pope's prayer at Loretta for his Irish
mission.
What is Loretta?
Loretta is a secret shrine to Mary in Italy.
It is more unique than Knock or any other secret shrine to what the Roman Catholics call Arlene.
Because at Loretta there is a little house near the bricks.
And that little house, Rome claims, is the very house that Mary was born in, in Nazareth.
And the very house that the Lord Jesus was brought up in.
And after the fall of the temple, that little house was carried by angels who flew it right
across the Mediterranean Sea.
And they landed it, first of all, in Dalmatia.
It stayed there for eight years.
And then it did not like that place.
So it said to the angels, carry me a bit farther.
So after a few other flits, it eventually arrived at Loretta.
And that is not what I say, that is what the Roman Catholic Church said.
And that is what this paper said.
Not something written a hundred years ago or five hundred years ago.
What does it say?
The Pope prayed alone for ten minutes in the little brick house.
Which has been revered for nearly seven centuries as Mary's home in Nazareth.
Populary believed to have been transported by angels from the Holy Land after the fall of
Jerusalem.
So the little house took wings and it flew.
But you know the amazing thing about this little house?
The red brick or the brick that it is made of, are of the very same clay as a little clay pit down
the road.
Now isn't it strange that there was a little clay pit in Nazareth with the very same clay to make
the very same bricks as was at Loretta.
Isn't that an amazing thing?
And when the Pope got down on his knees for ten minutes, this is what he prayed.
There is a special litany.
The litany called the Loretta litany to be said in the little brick house.
And he invoked the blessing of Mary upon his Irish visit.
And he called her Most Holy Mary.
Most Holy Generator of God.
I want you to think about these titles.
Mother of Divine Grace.
Mirror of Justice.
You need that when he looks at the knees present.
You need the mirror of justice always.
Seat of Wisdom.
Cause of our Joy.
Mystical Rose.
Tower of David.
Tower of Ivory.
House of Gold.
Ark of the Covenant.
Gate of Heaven.
Morning Star.
Health of the Sick.
Refuge of Sinners.
Comfort of the Afflicted.
Queen of Angels.
Patriarchs.
Prophets.
Apostles.
Martyrs.
Confessors.
Virgins.
And of all Saints.
Queen conceived without sin.
Queen of the Holy Rosary.
And he implored Mary.
Yes, Bird, you better get that in your teeth.
That's too good to miss.
Let me say this to you tonight.
He implored Mary to prosper his mission.
And at the shrine of Adon.
The very same eulogy is going to be lived to Mary.
Now let me tell you, the Mary of the Roman Catholic Church has nothing whatsoever to do with
Mary, the Virgin.
It was the human instrument for the bringing of the Lord Jesus into this world.
Where did this Mary, this Mystical Rose come from?
That's the woman of Babylon.
And in the Babylonian religion, there was always the mother and the child religion.
You'll read about it even in the book of Jeremiah.
Where they were weeping for Thomas.
That's why the pagans carried a wee chain with a T on it.
Thomas and the Roman Catholic Church carry the same little T, but it's now called the cross.
Don't you think that the Lord Jesus was crucified in a cross piece of wood?
For He wasn't.
He was crucified on a tree.
The word in the book is a stake.
And this idea of the cross that has filtered its way into our worship, even into Protestantism, is
a symbol of Babylonianism.
Nothing to do with the Christian religion.
And of course the cross in Scripture has to do with the work of the cross.
God forbid that I should glory see Him in the cross.
That's the work of the cross, not the wood of the cross anyway.
The work that was done on the cross that saves me, not the wood of the cross.
Thomas.
And this has been carried out of Babylonianism into Catholicism.
Christian names have been put on it.
But it's the old symbol of Babylon.
And that knock.
They're going to worship and bow down to the Virgin.
And it starts at the middle.
Here's another Roman Catholic.
I do read the middle.
I don't read the Belfast Telegraph, but I read these people.
The universe.
Thousands at Walsingham.
Walsingham is the National Shrine of Our Lady.
And just a few days ago, they carried the statue of Mary through the streets of that town.
And they worshiped before that.
And you know where they had the meeting to start it off?
In the Church of England Church.
The rector gave his church over to them and took part in the service as they commenced their
worship of the Virgin.
Soon they will have in the streets of England the things that happened in pre-reformation times.
And if you lift your voice and cry idolatry, it will be imprisonment.
And eventually, God knows, it will be death.
We are going back to the persecuting time.
And of course, if you say anything about it, you are a bigot.
You are a madman.
You see, the peace spokesman today said that there were too many Paisleyites and bigots in all the
churches.
They were all bigots.
That's what they said about Luther.
He was a bigot.
He was a madman.
He should be locked up in the asylum.
And many times you have heard that about this preacher.
And you will hear about it more and more.
He should be locked up.
He shouldn't be allowed to say these things.
Glory to God, we will be saved.
What about this?
Did something happen at night?
You know the strange thing, that when this happened at night, there were other apparitions
happened in Cork.
And these things were being seen in Cork.
And everybody was going to Cork.
And the pubs were doing great business in Cork.
And the hotels were doing... and you know what they discovered?
Fact of history.
They discovered that the leading publican had purchased a magic lamp.
And had concealed it in the winch.
And he had got his son to operate it with slides of statues of Mary.
And the people thought that the Blessed Virgin was visiting the place every night.
And of course the pubs were doing a great business.
But it was all exposed.
It all came out in the wine.
There is a book, if you want to get a book about potpourri in Ireland.
Get this book, Priests and People in Ireland by Michael J.
F.
MacArthur.
And when you read that book, you will understand the lying of Rome and the deceivings of Rome and
the deceits of Rome.
And you will get it in the Belfast library.
Go and queue up for it.
And you will wonder why everybody wants to read that book.
Tell them Paisley recommended it.
Maybe I will get a cut then from the line.
And there is a whole chapter or not in this book.
I am going to print some of it in the next issue of our paper, so that you will have it.
And the strange thing, the priest, who was a knock at that time, he could not be found.
He never was available when the apparitions appeared.
And when he was told about them, he would not even go out to examine them.
Was he operating a magic lantern at that time?
Well, I will tell you what he did operate.
He operated a racket and plaster from the wall.
The Daily Telegraph said that Archdeacon Cavanaugh said, Some little while ago I received a sick call
late at night to a man who was said to be vomiting blood and in extreme danger.
After ministering to him, I called for a glass of water.
Sprinkled on it a few particles of the mortar from the gable walls of the chapel and gave him a
drink.
He did so and at once he began to recover and became perfectly well.
Plaster from the gable wall.
And he goes on to tell us that the daughter of Arwash of Clifton regained sight after bathing her
eyes in water containing a piece of plaster from the chapel wall.
Oh, and Halpin of Drogheda, troubled with deafness, placed a bit of mortar in his ears and
suddenly he heard.
These are the facts of the situation.
Of course the Archbishops of the Church of Ireland and the Presbyterian apostates and Methodist false
prophets will not be crying aloud against Popery.
Of course they will not.
The deceptions of Roman Catholicism.
And I have here a copy of a letter written by a parish priest by the name of C.W.
Corbett.
This letter appeared on Wednesday the 27th of July 1938 in the Irish time.
And this is what he said.
He said when the operation came there was little talk at the time.
It was only years and years afterwards when the witnesses that were supposed to have seen these
operations had died.
Then Rome started to tell her story and get into the business, the money making business of now.
But let me tell you what he said.
He said we heard very little more of the matter.
And by the time of my ordination in 1881, the whole subject was almost entirely forgotten.
Some years after, in about 1886, I was speaking to a naval parish priest.
It was long since death and the subject cropped up.
I asked him what he thought about it.
And he quietly told me that he visited now and made a private inquiry for himself.
He came to the conclusion that the whole matter originated in that one of the witnesses used to
indulge in strong drink.
And when he was taken with drink, he saw visions.
As many in that state have done and will do.
That is not a fundamentalist Protestant preacher said that.
That is a Roman Catholic priest.
Now this man did not leave the church.
But he was opposed.
You keep quiet prayer and you will get no cornflakes.
Now let me say this to you.
Let me say this to you tonight.
He did not leave the Roman Catholic church, this priest.
This priest was against what he called deceit.
He said we have had an exposure in West Cork of apparitions.
And the church has found out to be deceiving the people.
We have had the whole case of the Temple Moore miracles which were also exposed as fakes.
And he says we as a church must not have any more of these fakes when they are going to do our
church harm.
There is a Roman Catholic church.
A priest living at the time who brings his own evidence to the subject.
And yet the fools of our land are going to wonder after the beast.
That is what the Bible says.
They will wonder after the beast.
How people can be deceived and they will deceive.
They would accept anything but the precious truth of God's holy word.
And what about the mass?
The Lord Jesus Christ died once and for all upon the cross of Sheol for sinners.
His hands will never be kneeled again to the cross.
His blessed brow will never be pierced again with thorns.
His feet shall never run blood being kneeled to the tree.
Nor shall his side be opened again for the flowing of blood and water.
My Savior offered one sacrifice for sins forever.
This man, having offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of the job of
redemption.
He acted atonement.
The great propitiatory work is done forevermore.
He was wounded for our transgressions.
He was bruised for our iniquities.
The justiceman of our peace was upon him.
And by his stripes we are healed.
You will see thousands and thousands and tens of thousands of people when he holds up the wheel.
And Christ, behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world.
Then they shall fall prostrate in worship.
And the whole of that vast assembly shall take part in the greatest insult that ever could be
made to the person and finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
It is for those reasons that we repudiate the Pope's claims and reject his visit and protest
against this brazen effrontery and idolatry of the person of the Son of God.
Oh, that Protestantism might return to God's Word.
Oh, that God, when this Antichrist arrives, might reveal to men and women the true Christ through
the preaching of the gospel.
Oh, that their eyes might be turned away from the deceits of Rome.
Their eyes might be turned to the truth of that Holy Word that maketh wise unto salvation.
It is an evil day.
What shall we do?
Every Christian should redouble his efforts in getting out the gospel of Jesus Christ.
We should protest against the idolatry with all means in our power.
We should spread the gospel, the true gospel of Jesus Christ.
We should give of our means for the spreading of that gospel.
And we should never rest until God sends a great revival to this land of Ulster, to this island
home of ours.
And that we'll see those in darkness brought into the glorious light of the gospel.
There is one thing that Rome fears, and it's this book.
And there's one thing that terrorizes Rome, and it's a preacher of God's Word.
God sendeth a race of fearless, spirit-filled preachers who shall fill this land with the
doctrine of the gospel that Jesus alone seeth.
That merely has no part in man's salvation.
And that there is only one Holy Father, and that is God the Father.
And He alone deserves that title.
And there is only one Vicar of Christ, and that's God the Holy Ghost.
And there's only one Mediator, and that's Jesus Christ Himself.
If there be someone here tonight, and you as yet so cradled in Protestantism, have never come to
Jesus Christ and received Him as your Savior, I trust tonight, in the silence of your heart, you
will call upon the name of the Lord.
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
After this service, the session room of the church will be opened as usual, as an inquiry.
I trust, dear sinner friend, dear back-sider, you'll make your way to that room.
And I trust tonight you'll come and receive the Son of God, and be born again of His Spirit.
I have to go tonight and preach and not medona.
I would appreciate your prayers.
It will be my fifth message today.
May it be the best message of all.
And best of all, may sinners be saved through the preaching of His Holy Word.
Let's stand to our feet to be dismissed.
O God, our Father, we thank Thee for Thy holy and precious Word.
We thank Thee for the truth of the Bible.
We thank Thee that we don't need man-made priests.
That we have the great High Priest, and we depend upon the finished work of Christ.
Bless this people, those without Christ.
Bring them to the blessed Son of God.
Separate us now with Thy blessing.
And as we go to that medona, may Thy hand be upon us for good.
And may our ministry be owned and blessed of God in the salvation of the lost.
And may the grace of the Lord Jesus, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be
with us all, now and forevermore.
Amen and Amen.
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And remember that John Kelvin, in defending the Reformation's regulative principle of worship, or
what is sometimes called the scriptural law of worship, commenting on the words of God, which I
commanded them not, neither came into my heart.
From his commentary on Jeremiah 731, writes, God here cuts off from men every occasion for making
evasions, since he condemns by this one phrase, I have not commanded them, whatever the Jews
devised.
There is then no other argument needed to condemn superstitions, than that they are not commanded by
God.
For when men allow themselves to worship God according to their own fancies, and attend not to
his commands, they pervert true religion.
And if this principle was adopted by the Papists, all those fictitious modes of worship, in which
they absurdly exercise themselves, would fall to the ground.
It is indeed a horrible thing for the Papists to seek to discharge their duties towards God, by
performing their own superstitions.
There is an immense number of them, as it is well known, and as it manifestly appears.
Were they to admit this principle, that we cannot rightly worship God, except by obeying his word,
they would be delivered from their deep abyss of error.
The prophet's words then are very important, when he says, that God had commanded no such thing, and
that it never came to his mind.
As though he had said, that men assume too much wisdom, when they devise what he never required,
nay, what he never knew.