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

by J.C. Ryle

He must be willing to give up all trust in his own morality, respectability, praying, Bible reading, church-going, and sacraments, and he must trust in nothing but Jesus Christ. This sounds difficult to some. I do not wonder why. “Sir,” said a godly farmer to the well-known James Hervey,[1] “it is harder to deny proud self than sinful self, but it is absolutely necessary.” Let us remember this first and foremost.