God Has Called Us for the Purpose of Sanctification

Note from today’s Bible reading: 1 Thessalonians 3-4

What is God’s purpose for us? A common answer might be that He wants to save us. He certainly desires our salvation, but Paul emphasized something else in his letter to the Thessalonians.

The apostle wrote, “For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you know how to possess his own ves…