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

by J.C. Ryle

Whether we are Churchmen or not, one thing is certain – this Christian warfare is a great reality and a subject of vast importance. It is not a matter like church government and ceremony, about which people might differ and yet still reach heaven. Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ’s epistles to the seven churches, except to those who “overcome.” Where there is grace there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.