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

by J.C. Ryle

Faith told Moses that worldly pleasures were pleasures of sin. They were mingled with sin, they led to sin, they were ruinous to the soul, and they were displeasing to God. It would be little comfort to have pleasure while God was against him. It is better to suffer and obey God than to be at ease and sin.