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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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…
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The Lord Reigneth
When King Solomon got up to pray on that momentous occasion at the dedication of the Temple, he was undoubtedly inspired by God the Holy Spirit in that prayer which he uttered before the Lord. And it is very instructive to notice that the very things that Solomon prayed for, came to pass in the history of God’s ancient people. In other words, the Holy Ghost, directing his prayers almost in a prophetic sense, knew that a day would come when, for example, as we have before us in our own day at this very moment, these pestilences and plagues. Solomon was led to ask the Lord that when such a day should come; when the plague would visit the land and the pestilence cause…
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The Delivering God
These are most remarkable words, in more than one way. They were spoken by an ungodly man, King Darius. As far as we know, King Darius had not got the fear of God in his heart at all. Yet, this man was God’s mouthpiece to Daniel. There was something in King Darius’s heart that recognized that Daniel and his God had right on their side. And it is a wonderful thing that this is recorded for our help this morning hour, because the days in which we live are not so dissimilar from the day in which Daniel was called to live in Babylon. It was a lonely path for Daniel. It seems there were not many who were willing to stand and be counted…
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I Will Send My Beloved Son, It May Be They Will Reverence Him When They See Him
The Lord Jesus Christ here, in one of the many parables which He spoke, is, first of all, setting forth a solemn lesson for the generation in which He lived. He is also setting forth what lay before Him in a few weeks time from when He made this precious declaration. But this is also a word for every generation. It is just the same now as it was in the generation in which our Lord lived. “He came unto His own, and His own received Him not.” Friends, this is just as true today. Man has not changed. The nature of man is not more amenable to the Truth now than it was in our Lord’s day, here below. Thus, the question and the…
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Though He Slay Me, Yet Will I Trust In Him
These may seem extreme words from the mouth and the lips of God’s servant Job, yet they are very true words. As the Lord may give grace so to do, our text may be looked at in many ways to prove that, in one way and another, this is the experience of all God’s children in the way of faith. To understand Job’s path, we have to understand that Job had a great privilege. I am not speaking about the days of prosperity that preceded his troubles, nor even perhaps the prosperity that succeeded them, but the fact that he was appointed by God to be on the front line of the battleground between Christ and Satan. Job’s heart and Job’s life was to be…
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He Shall Send His Angel Before Thee
“He” – that is the Lord God of heaven – “shall send His angel before thee.” And it was that which made the way prosperous for Eliezer in this vital matter which lay upon his shoulders to perform. In the Garden of Eden, the Lord God Almighty instituted three ordinances which are to be observed to the end of time. And, although man has marred them, they are still there as God’s commands. The first is the Sabbath day. “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.” Although since New Testament times the Sabbath now is the first day of the week, the day our Lord arose; the principle is yet the same. One day in seven belongs to the Lord. It is for our…
