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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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…
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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…
