Holiness is like health. How many of you are afraid to hear messages on being perfectly healthy? Are you afraid of good health? No. Then why should we be afraid of perfect health in our spirit – which is more important than health for our body? Sin is like sickness. Holiness for the body is what we call health. Health for the spirit and soul is what we call holiness. Please get rid of this fear of holiness.
We should come to the place where we desire total holiness more than we desire total health. Just like we want to be totally free of all sickness in our bodies, we must want to be totally free of all sin that defiles us. We must not tolerate sin any more than we tolerate sickness.
Sin begins with impure or dirty thoughts – yet we seem to tolerate this. But when we get sick, we immediately deal with the matter through medical treatment or going to see the doctor. Yet when it comes to sin in our lives, we seem to tolerate it. It begins with our thoughts.
Watch over your thought-life (2 Cor. 10:4-5; Phil. 4:8). To tolerate impure or dirty thoughts is like tolerating tuberculosis or leprosy.
