Continual Burnt Offering: Daily Meditations, November 8 (4:3)
“This is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication” ―1 Thess. 4:3.
THAT which God’s Word would impress upon us, above all else, in this connection, is the sinfulness of unchastity in all its forms. We live in the days of a revolting revival of paganism. Men would fain excuse every sort of impurity as “natural,” and not to be held in check. Scripture well describes such as behaving like “natural brute beasts” (2 Peter 2:12), and solemnly declares that such “shall receive the reward of unrighteousness.” It becomes the Christian to shun every approach to uncleanness, and to remember that “the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body” (1 Cor. 6:13). It has been purchased by the precious blood of Christ and is not to be used selfishly or made the victim of evil appetites and unholy passions.
―H. R. Palmer.