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

by J.C. Ryle

Faith told him that there was a reward in heaven for the believer far richer than the treasures in Egypt – durable riches that rust could not corrupt and where thieves could not break through and steal (Matthew 6:19-20). The crown there would be incorruptible and the weight of glory would be exceeding and eternal (1 Corinthians 9:25; 2 Corinthians 4:17). Faith moved Moses to look away to an unseen heaven rather than have his eyes impressed with Egyptian gold.