Derek Prince - A Vision of Holiness

Now the theme for this closing message is: A Vision of Holiness. Some of you have been here long enough to remember what I said, but I said about two or three meetings ago that I was taking you through a long, dark tunnel, but there was light at the end of the tunnel. Yesterday evening I spoke about the church as the Bride of Christ. Now today, God helping us and it has to be God, I want to come out into the full glory of God. That’s where the tunnel should lead us. I believe the glory of God is summed up in one word—holiness, a word that is very seldom used in the contemporary church as I know it.

In fact, it might almost have dropped out of the Scriptures as far as most people are concerned. There is a version of holiness which is a set of negative rules. You mustn’t do this, you mustn’t do that. Let me say I respect those rules, but they’ve got nothing whatever to do with holiness. Holiness is totally different and it’s totally positive. I find that we as religious people, find it much easier to focus on the negative than on the positive. We’ll quickly learn all the “thou shalt nots” but we often don’t get much further than that...