Gerald Buss
Gerald Buss is a Strict and Particular Baptist preacher. In 1980, he was appointed pastor of the Old Baptist Chapel meeting at Chippenham, Wiltshire.
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The Preciousness Of Christ
There are some very remarkable features about this very sacred incident. The shadows of death were already gathering over the dear Redeemer, as the cross at Calvary became nearer and nearer His experience. Here, in our text this evening, we have a woman who had some (we do not know how much), but certainly some discernment as to what lay before Him. We know that, because the Lord Jesus Christ said that what she did was an anointing for His burial.
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Nehushtan
I woke up with this word about five o’clock Thursday morning. It is a word that is not in the English language, but it is a word that is in the Word of God. It has a very important message to us this Sabbath morning. “Nehushtan.” The interpretation of it is ‘a piece of brass.’ I want, with God’s help, to divide our meditation this morning into three things. First of all, the history of the brasen serpent. Secondly, the doctrine of the brasen serpent. And thirdly, the snare of the brasen serpent. Three things: the history, the doctrine and the snare.
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Opening Verses In Luke 11
Seeking the Lord’s help, I would direct your thoughts to the passage we read in Luke 11. There are one or two comments I would like to make on the verses that we read. The great burden upon the Saviour’s heart here was to encourage His people in prayer. And, as always, He set the pre-eminent example. “He was praying in a certain place.” It seems to infer that He was praying audibly; publicly. His little band of disciples gathered around Him and heard Him in prayer. How distinctive the prayers of the dear Saviour are! Ours are mingled with sin and unbelief.
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God’s Watchful Eye
You may wonder whatever food you could gather from a verse like this in Holy Scripture. But, if we are given the grace to dig beneath the surface tonight, I believe we will find some precious things, especially for those who are in the path that Jacob was in; that is in the way of faith, but in a greatly tried and tested path. We sometimes sing (and the Word of God confirms it): “But grace, though the smallest, shall surely be tried.”
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And So It Was
It may seem unusual to take just these four words on an occasion like this. Yet, within these four words is all the essence and substance of why we are gathered here this morning hour: to remember the birth of the dear Lord Jesus Christ. It is that little word ‘it’ which stands out. “And so it was.” What was? The appointed hour had come for the dear Saviour to be born into this sin-cursed earth. You will remember that, throughout the Old Testament, “line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little” this great matter was opened up. It began with the first promise given regarding the seed of the woman. Not the
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And The Lord Loved Him
What a privilege! What an inestimable privilege did Solomon have! He was loved by God. No doubt Solomon was loved by David, and no doubt he was loved by Bathsheba. But their love, at its best, was natural. When they passed on, as they did, and Solomon was bereft of his parents, their natural love died in the grave. But, this love never dies. It is from everlasting and it is to everlasting. David said in one of his psalms, anticipating the end of natural love and rejoicing in the abundant and continuing love of his Saviour: “When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.” When our loved ones are taken, we sometimes sing: “And if our dearest…
