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

by J.C. Ryle

All true saints are soldiers. Anything is better than apathy, stagnation, deadness, and indifference. We are in a better condition than many. Most so-called Christians have no feeling at all. We are evidently no friends of Satan. Like the kings of this world, he wars not against his own subjects. The very fact that he assaults us should fill our minds with hope. I say again, let us take comfort. The child of God has two great characteristics about him: he can be known by his inward warfare, and he can be known by his inward peace.