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

by J.C. Ryle

Words such as these appear to me to be clear, plain, and unmistakable. They all teach one and the same great lesson, if we are willing to receive it. That lesson is that true Christianity is a struggle, a fight, and a warfare. He who pretends to condemn “fighting” and teaches that we ought to sit still and passively “yield ourselves to God” appears to me to misunderstand his Bible and to make a great mistake.