Jean Ann Williams | Author

“This only would I learne of you, Receiued ye the Spirit by the workes of the Lawe [Old Testament], or by the hearing of faith preached [Christ’s teachings]? Are ye so foolish, that after ye haue begun in the Spirit, ye would now be made perfect by the flesh” (Galations 3:2, 3 1587 Geneva Version)? […]

“O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the trueth, to whome Iesus Christ before was described in your sight, and among you crucified” (Galations 3:1 1587 Geneva Version)? Father, help us to never fall away as these Galations did. Please help us to remember You are our strength, our peace. […]

“But by them which seemed to be great, I [Paul] was not taught (whatsoeuer they were in time passed, I am nothing the better: God accepteth no mans person) for they that are the chiefe, did adde nothing to me aboue that I had [only the Lord added]. But contrariwise, when they saw that ye […]

“To whom [false brethren/disciples] we [Paul & his helpers] gaue not place by subiection [subjected themselves to them] for an houre, that the trueth of the Gospel might continue with you” (Galations 2:5 1587 Geneva Version). Father, as Paul did, we must not allow false teachers/disciples into our lives or into the lives of our […]

“But neither yet Titus which was with me, though he were a Grecian, was compelled to be circumcised, To wit, for the false brethren which were craftily sent in, and crept in priuily [privately] to spie out our libertie, which we haue in Christ Iesus, that they might bring vs into bondage” (Galations 2:3, 4 […]

“For I [Paul] feare least when I come, I shall not finde you such as I would: and that I shalbe found vnto you such as ye woulde not, and least there be strife, enuying [envy], wrath, contentions, backebitings [back stabbers], whisperings [against others], swellings [not humble] and discord” (2 Corinthians 12:20 1587 Geneva Version).  […]

“In journeying often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils from my [Paul] own nation, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils from false brethren: In labour and painfulness, in much watchings, in hunger and thirst, in […]

“For such false apostles are deceitfull workers, and transforme themselues into the Apostles of Christ. And no marueile: for Satan himselfe is transformed into an Angel of light” (2 Corinthians 11:13, 14 1587 Geneva Version). Father, way back in Paul’s day there were false Disciples of Christ and false Apostles. As there are today many […]