Holiness: For the Will of God Is Your Sanctification – 1 Thessalonians 4:3 [Annotated, Updated]

by J.C. Ryle

Is it not true that we need a higher standard of personal holiness in our day? Where is our patience? Where is our zeal? Where is our love? Where are our works? Where is the power of Christianity to be seen as it was in previous days? Where is that unmistakable tone that used to distinguish the saints of old and shake the world?