Real Error in the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster 2

Evidence of Real Error in the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster 2

For decades the Free Presbyterian Church claimed the moral high ground by protesting against Sunday trading, Sunday sports and the laxed drinking and gambling laws. The irony was that, while the Free Presbyterians protested against the lowering of social and moral standards, the DUP were becoming much more liberal in their outlook; DUP led councils were opening their leisure facilities on the Lord’s Day, shopping centres were open for business on the Sabbath. What really defied logic was the fact that the leader of the DUP and the moderator of the Free Presbyterian Church was the same person, Rev Ian Paisley; here was an enigma in the making, preaching against immorality while at the same time tolerating it.

It must be remembered that ministers and office bearers in the Free Presbyterian Church also hold high profile positions within the DUP and now in the power sharing executive. These same people, together with their colleagues in the ministry and their congregations, signed a solemn covenant before Almighty God, to love the things that Christ loves and to hate the things that Christ hates. The Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster entered into this very solemn covenant with Almighty God; if such a covenant was honoured, God’s blessings would continue and abound: however, if the covenant was to be broken, then the displeasure and rebuke of the Lord would be assured.

So with the way of blessing through obedience and the way of cursing through disobedience before them, the Free Presbyterian Church choose out the path which they desired to tread. After protesting against homosexuality and denouncing it as abomination before the Lord, the Free Presbyterian Church supported its ministers and office bearers in the power sharing administration as they handed out public money to advance the Gay Rights Campaign. The error evidenced here is that of Spiritual rebellion against the Word of God; they knew the way that God would have them to follow but they rejected the Commandment of Almighty God, they smashed their solemn covenant with the Lord.

When a Co Antrim Free Presbyterian minister was challenged regarding support being given to the Gay Pride incident; he refused to publicly condemn the action, saying that he had spent his entire ministry fighting apostasy, and now at sixty years of age, he was not getting involved with this matter.

It was the error of rebellion that destroyed the house of Saul in the O.T; Saul depended upon political expediency and rebelled against the Word of God in sparing the Amalekites. Samuel’s reproof against the house of Saul is still appropriate for the modern-day ‘House of Saul’ today; (1Sam15:22-23) ‘And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.’


Rev Mervyn Cotton (Heb13:6)