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

by J.C. Ryle

Simply put, where there is no sanctification of life, there is no real faith in Christ. True faith works by love. It compels a person to live unto the Lord from a deep sense of gratitude for redemption. It makes him feel that he can never do too much for Him who died for him. Being forgiven much, he loves much. He whom the blood cleanses walks in the light (1 John 1:7). He who has real lively hope in Christ purifies himself, even as he is pure (1 John 3:3).