JAMES ROBISON
On
Wednesday evening July 31, 1991, evangelist James Robison, of Fort Worth,
Texas, spoke for some 55 minutes to a national convention of Booksellers. For
quite some time we have been interested in what this energetic preacher has been
saying to his audiences. Of all those we have heard on the electronic media,
our opinion is that James Robison is speaking more and more pure truth than
most..
We
obtained from his office a video tape of this sermon from which we have
transcribed a portion to share with our readers. We heard Brother Robison
define oneness and sameness in a most remarkable way. He clearly refutes the
sameness doctrine of the trinity and made separateness of the Father and the
Son a living, vivid reality to a large audiences of what appeared to be over
3,000 people. And he asks God to, in his words, "forgive us."
Read all
this for yourself. The portion we have copied into a transcript, occurred about
9 minutes into the sermon. No doubt, you will be as happy as we were with what
he had to say. In fact, the entire sermon was excellent.
"And
I want to declare to you that it is this grace and it is this spiritual
oneness, not sameness. God is the author of diversity, He is the author of
difference, He is the author of distinctive. He is NOT however the author of
dissension and division, enmity and strife, hostility, malice, slander. God is
the author of oneness. And I am seeing God bring together those parts of His
body that have been separated far too long into a Holy union in the spirit that
is going to exalt Jesus as the body is built up into the fullness of Christ.
Satan has attacked this possibility. I can assure you that the prayer of Jesus
was not a feeble gesture toward good will on the part of men one to the other.
"Jesus
prayed that we would be one as He and the Father were one. By the way the
Father and the son being one are not the same. We will be one without sameness.
In your marriage there is oneness without sameness.
"We
have misinterpreted oneness to mean sameness. God forgive us. Jesus not only
prayed they would be one as He and the Father were one, but He prayed that the
Church would be perfected in unity. The perfection of the Church is the purest
possible presentation of the living Jesus possible. That is the perfection of
the Church; Jesus Christ alone lifted up that He alone may draw all men unto
Himself. Not sectarianism, not denominationalism, not racism, and I assert
tonight that denominationalism is as dangerous and Satanic as is racism and
they are one and the same. God is not opposed to the races. He created the
races. He is not opposed to denominations. He allows us to express our
differences and to seek Him with our whole heart. But He is opposed to idolatry
and bigotry and unkindness on the part of any person regardless of their race,
their background or their denomination. . . . "
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The
underlining is ours. Brother Robison gives great emphasis to certain words and
phrases in his sermon. It is impossible for us to convey his great emphasis
with underlining or any other way that we know of. His address is, James
Robison Evangelistic Association, P.O. Box 982000, Fort Worth, Texas 76182.
Editor
Please
Note, the above article was included as part of issue #30 of the "Watch
And Pray" newsletter dated November and December 1991.