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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I Lead In The Way Of Righteousness
One of the many names given to the incomparable Saviour is the name ‘Wisdom.’ In this chapter, we are given a blessed commentary by the Holy Ghost through His servant Solomon of the way in which the Lord Jesus Christ is the very wisdom of God. And, particularly in the verses before us this evening, there is a very necessary application of that wisdom; an essential part of salvation. That is to be led “in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment.” Man, by nature, has not got this wisdom. He is fallen. We are commanded, elsewhere in The Proverbs, not even to lean unto our “own understanding.” We also read: “He that trusteth in his own heart is a…
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Gracious Submission To God’s Will In Adversity
Of all the Old Testament patriarchs, it seems to me that the most tried and tested of them all was Job. Others did have severe trials; Abraham did, and so did David and others. But the intensity of Job’s trial and the various factors that impinged upon him in it, made him certainly one of the most tried men that has ever been known in the Church of Christ. But here we find a very wonderful thing. We read in Exodus 1.12: “The more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew.” When Pharaoh was trying to suppress the children of Israel, his agenda was to annihilate the people. But friends, God overturned Pharaoh’s agenda, and the people grew. And, in that sense, Job…
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I Have Enough
Two brothers in the flesh are spoken of in our text. In fact, they were both in the womb together. They were twins. But we know that even while they were in the womb, they strove one with another. God gave to Rebekah, their mother, that interpreting word, that the elder (which was Esau) would serve the younger. The early history of these two brothers we have in previous chapters. In many respects, it was not a happy history, mainly through the partiality shown by Isaac to Esau and Rebekah to Jacob. We should remember that “the wisdom that is from above is...without partiality.” A lot of evil has been done in this world in families, in Churches, in businesses and in nations by an…
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The Raised Spirits Of God’s People
The context of this verse, and chapter, is exceedingly instructive. You will remember that under the prophecies, of both Isaiah and Jeremiah, it was foretold that the people of God, who, having been brought out of Egyptian bondage and wonderfully blessed in the Promised Land, because of their iniquity and because of their neglect of God’s Word and of His prophets, would spend seventy years in a foreign country, that being Babylon. They had neglected the Sabbaths of the Lord, and so the Lord gave the land a seventy year Sabbath while the people were absent from it.
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The Mysterious Work Of The Holy Spirit
It is very remarkable to notice that in two successive chapters in John’s Gospel, our Lord preaches a sermon to just one person. In this case it was to a man called Nicodemus, who probably, because of the fear of man, did not want to be known as a follower or a hearer of the Lord Jesus Christ. Nicodemus came to Jesus by night and began to enquire about the things of God. In the next chapter, we have the woman of Samaria. Whereas Nicodemus was a very religious man; a man looked up to, no doubt, as being a guide to others, the woman of Samaria, although cloaked with some form of religion which she professed, had been leading an immoral life for many…
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And The Spirit Of God Moved Upon The Face Of The Waters
Dear friends, you have just sung that “God moves.” (Hymn 320). And when God moves, something is always done. It was so in this chapter. Every time the dear Spirit moved, and God spoke, something came to pass. It is very trying and troubling to God’s people when He does not seem to move and when He seems to be silent. Those periods are very trying to a living child of God. It is then they feel at a loss, and rather like God’s servant Jacob in Isaiah 40: “Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, my way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?” But the good prophet, inspired by the Holy Ghost, knowing Genesis…
