Jean Ann Williams | Author

“But what sayth the Scripture? Put out [banish into the desert] the seruant and her sonne : for the sonne of the seruant shall not be heire [heir] with the sonne of the free woman. Then brethren, we are not children of the seruant, but of the free woman” (Galatians 4:30, 31 1587 Geneva Version).  […]

“By the which things another thing is me[a]nt: for these mothers are the two testaments, the one which is Agar of mount Sina, which gendreth vnto bondage. (For Agar or Sina is a mountaine in Arabia, and it answereth to Hierusalem[Jerusalem] which nowe is) and she is in bondage with her children. But Hierusalem, which is […]

“And I would I were with you nowe, that I might change my voyce: for I am in doubt of you. Example of Hagar and SarahTell me, ye that will be vnder the Law, doe ye not heare the Lawe” (Galatians 4:20, 21 1587 Geneva Version)?  Father, please guide us and give us Your strength […]

They [those who do not believe in Christ] are ielous [jealous] ouer you amisse: yea, they woulde exclude you, that ye shoulde altogether loue them. But it is a good thing to loue earnestly alwayes in a good thing, and not onely when I [Paul] am present with you, My litle children, of whome I […]

“Am I [Paul] therefore become your enemie, because I tell you the trueth” (Galatians 4:16 1587 Geneva Version)? Father, the truth of You cuts like a sword for people who do not want to accept You as Lord God and Christ as our Savior. As Paul, please guide us in Your strength, truth, and courage. […]

“And ye know, how through infirmitie of the flesh, I preached ye Gospel vnto you at the first. And the trial of me which was in my flesh, ye despised not, neither abhorred: but ye receiued me as an Angel of God, yea, as Christ Iesus. What was then your felicitie [blessedness]? for I beare […]

“. . . when we were children, were in bondage vnder the rudiments of the world. But when the fulnesse of time was come, God sent forth his Sonne made of a woman, and made vnder the Lawe, That he might redeeme them which were vnder the Law, that we might receiue [receive] the adoption […]

“There is neither Iewe [Jew/Judaen] nor Grecian: there is neither bonde nor free: there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Iesus. And if ye be Christes, then are ye Abrahams seede, and heires [heirs] by promes [promise]” (Galatians 3:28, 29 1587 Geneva Version). Father, You are the Lord of […]

“But after that faith is come, we are no longer vnder a scholemaster.For ye are al the sonnes of God by faith, in Christ Iesus. For all ye that are baptized into Christ, haue put on Christ” (Galations 3:25-27 1587 Geneva Version). Father, help us to never forget Your perfect plan as we share the […]

“But before faith came, we were kept vnder the Law, as vnder a garison, and shut vp vnto that faith, which should afterward be reueiled. Wherefore the Lawe was our scholemaster [schoolmaster] to bring vs to Christ, that we might be made righteous by faith” (Galatians 3:23, 24 1587 Geneva Version). Father, thank You that […]