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

by J.C. Ryle

Faith told Moses that all the reproach and scorn poured out on him was the reproach of the Christ, that it was honorable to be mocked and despised for Christ’s sake, that whoever persecuted Christ’s people was persecuting Christ Himself, and that the day must come when His enemies would bow before Him and lick the dust. Moses saw all this, and much more, by faith. These were the things he believed, and believing, he did what he did. He was convinced of them and embraced them. He considered them as certainties, he regarded them as actual truths, and he accepted them as certainly as if he had seen them with his own eyes. Moses acted on them as realities, and this made him the man that he was. He had faith. He believed.