When his finances began to dry up, he found himself heavily in debt. The ministry needed $1 million to survive. In what seemed like a dramatic answer to prayer, Cullen Davis, a controversial Texas millionaire Robison had led to the Lord, donated $1 million worth of jade, gold and silver art objects to the ministry. In one stroke it seemed as if the problems had been wiped out. But God had other ideas. He was teaching Robison a deeper lesson in the importance of obedience.
Several days before they were to sell the objects, Robison went over to the warehouse to inspect them. On the way, while he was reading his Bible, he read Deuteronomy 7:25-26 (NAS). These verses seemed to leap off the page: “You must burn the graven images of their gods with fire. You must not desire the silver or gold that is on them nor take any of it, lest you be snared by them, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God. You shall not bring an abomination into your house, lest you become cursed like it, but you must absolutely detest and abhor it, for it is a cursed thing.”
When he got to the warehouse, he discovered that most of the art objects were pagan idols.
“I looked at those things and the Lord said to me, ‘You can’ t have them.’ Yet I could see the things they could pay for. I could see the people we could help. But I loaded them on a truck and took them back to Cullen the next day.”
After Robison explained why he couldn’t keep them, Davis decided he couldn’t take them back, either. As Robison watched, the millionaire went outside and began smashing all the artworks right in his driveway.
Robison knew he had been obedient. But he was still $1 million in debt. However, two days later, his wife went to the mailbox and found a plain, white envelope with $200,000 in it. The same week a woman sent a check for $40,000.
Thousands of people also sent small gifts in response to the Holy Spirit’ s prompting,” added Robison. In one month, the entire $1 million was raised.
“I learned from that experience that you will never obey the Lord and regret it,” Robison says. “But you will regret it every time that you don’t obey Him.”
Robison believes that the church’s failure to be obedient to the whole Word is preventing worldwide revival. He is particularly distressed over the sectarianism he sees throughout the body of Christ.
“The time has come to stop debating, dialoguing and discussing,” says Robison. “We’ve got to come to the Word of God and be transformed, renewed and made one in Christ “
Robison believes that the age demands a voice—a prophet who will cry aloud to the church that judgment begins at the house of God. There is going to be a release of God’s judgment and purifying fire, he says. And when the flood and fury of God’s judgment comes, that fire will try our works to see if they are of wood, hay and stubble or of gold, silver and precious stones.
The church that Jesus Christ is coming for will be a bride adorned, a bride that is spotless, a bride prepared,” he says. “He’s not coming to get a harlot and there is going to have to be a purification. Life in the Word will no longer be optional. It’s going to be imperative to make it through 24 hours a day. Only those who are dressed up in Jesus with the whole armor of God will be prepared. That’s why this message must be heard.”
Something special has happened to James Robison’s life. He has been set free. He has been to the mountaintop and seen the glory of God. He is refusing to be owned by any faction of the Lord’ s church.
He has been transformed by the renewing of his mind, a workman who knows he need not be ashamed.
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