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Restoration Series #3 - Love Never Fails
James Robison

James Robison (1943–present). Born on October 9, 1943, in Pasadena, Texas, to an impoverished, unmarried mother, Myra Wattinger, James Robison was raised by foster parents, Rev. H.D. and Katie Hale, after being advertised for adoption in a newspaper. Converted at 15 during a revival led by Troy Brookshire, he began preaching at 16, ordained as a Southern Baptist evangelist by 19. Known for fiery crusades, he drew thousands across the U.S., speaking nightly at events like the 1979 Orlando crusade, where he reached 10,000 attendees. In 1965, he founded James Robison Evangelistic Association, and by 1982, launched The James Robison Show, later renamed LIFE Today, broadcasting on over 300 stations and reaching millions globally, addressing faith, politics, and charity. Robison authored over a dozen books, including The Absolutes (2002), Living in Love (1998), and God of All Creation (2012), emphasizing biblical truth and family values. A key figure in the Moral Majority, he influenced evangelical politics, meeting leaders like Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. Married to Betty Freeman since 1963, he has three children—Rhonda, Robin, and Randy—and 11 grandchildren, surviving a 2008 throat cancer diagnosis. Based in Fort Worth, he leads LIFE Outreach International, supporting missions like water wells in Africa. Robison said, “The Gospel is God’s love invading man’s darkness with His light.”
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In this sermon, James Robinson shares a personal experience of how God brought him and his wife into undistracted love. He talks about how his wife used to struggle with feelings of ugliness and fear, but God delivered her from those insecurities. Robinson also reflects on his own journey of learning to love unconditionally and not be controlled by anger. He emphasizes the importance of being sensitive to others' needs and allowing the Holy Spirit to guide us in truth.
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Only the Holy Spirit can say to the Church today what must be said and heard. The truth that will go forth in these days can only be imparted by the power of the Spirit to the heart of the believer. The Word of God will once again be carried on sanctified shoulders and not on the carts of religious programs, practices, traditions, and idolatry. God is going to change His preachers. He's going to change His people. So distinct will be the change that not only will the immediate family members recognize the change in the men of God, but the entire family, the flock, will know. Over a year ago I was invited to a church to speak, and by the pastor's confession he said that I was invited to make him look good for his reputation to be exalted. I don't feel that my appearance anywhere helps anyone's reputation, but some in past days felt that it did. I would go to churches and oftentimes their membership would double in a week. I preached over 600 crusades, over 500 of them citywide, attended by over 12 million people. And in many churches we would see five, six, and seven hundred people won to Christ in a week and baptized into churches, and in citywide meetings many more than that. So apparently he felt that his ego was going to receive some sort of a boost. I came in on a Saturday night, and I was there by divine order. I didn't have time to be there. I had spoken following the President of the United States at the National Religious Broadcasters before Billy Graham spoke, and Oral Roberts spoke later. I went from there to this pastor's church, and on Saturday night his building was filled nicely, and I was going to also speak on Sunday morning. They had three services. On Saturday night the Spirit of the Lord moved on me, and I preached three hours, which is just not exactly what you do when you want a guest speaker to make you look good. And I dealt with the sins of the church, and the sins of the prophets, and the sins of the shepherds. A very proud pastor, a Ph.D., died on the platform that night, died to self, and literally crawled down from the platform to join the hundreds of other believers on his face before God in repentance. The next morning we had the three services, but we didn't have three services. I began preaching in the first one and simply didn't stop until the time for the third one was over. So those who were there in the first one were unable to leave. Those coming in simply joined. At the end of the time, the Lord had totally changed the largest church in that city. In the ensuing weeks, the pastor would walk down the halls. This is his testimony, recorded by Scripps Howard Publishers, and went throughout the country. And his testimony was thus. I took my degrees off the wall. They were there to impress you with my much learning. I had used the sheep and had run off the hungry sheep, because they would not help me with my programs. The spiritually sensitive sheep either agonized in the pews for me or left, but I was in charge. But after the weekend, I referred you to. The pastor said I was no longer in charge. I would walk down the halls of my church, and my people would walk up to me and say, Pastor, you're so different. And I would answer, I know. I know. But you see, the same thing happened to me as a very successful evangelist. In the midst of my successes, by the world standard, and we have the wrong measure anyway, we measure with a crooked stick, impure balances. We measure ourselves by ourselves and compare ourselves with ourselves, Paul said, and we're thereby void of understanding. Our standard is the same as the world's, more numbers, more budgets, more people, but few disciples, because you will never make a disciple with the world's standards. We think that we're successful because we're bigger. Well, by that standard, I was an enormous success, but I was miserable. I prayed to die. I tried to die. My mind was on fire. It was like a claw in my brain. I didn't want to live. I didn't want to preach. It was like a job. It was like a performance. It was like living up to the reputation. God only knows how miserable I was, but I found that that experience is common to most preachers today. Tragically, many are so insensitive now that they can't even see reality. Isaiah 42, there's a verse that says it burned them and they paid no attention. The work of the enemy. I want to tell you that there are believers sitting here today who are being consumed by the work of the enemy, and you've gotten to the point that you pay it no attention. God knows that's the saddest state of all. That's a reprobate mind. How sad. Well, I hadn't reached that stage. I hurt so bad I wanted to die. Well, the Lord set me free. I don't intend at this time to go into the detail of that, except to simply say someone prayed for me who knew what they were doing, and the power of the spirit knew their authority, and God set me free. I found myself in the following months seated around my teenage daughter, who has always thought her daddy was the greatest person on this earth. My children have never been ashamed of me. I have three. They've always been pleased and proud of their daddy. They thought their daddy was a great preacher. They all thought their daddy was a great man. I once called my wife crying and said, honey, I'd had a wonderful experience with the Lord. God had broke him, and I was crying. At that time, my teenage daughter was 12 or 13 years old. I called home, and I was crying. I said, Betty, right here on the floor of this motel room, I just got right with God. Betty started crying. I'd gotten right with the Lord in the sense that I had been moved through brokenness to realize I had not loved him as I should. When I told Betty that I had gotten right with the Lord, she started crying. Rhonda, my daughter, was standing there, and she said, mama, why are you crying? She said, honey, as she hung up, daddy just got right with God. My little daughter looked at her mother and said, mother, I thought my daddy was always right with God. When I got home, Betty said, you need to tell Rhonda what you meant. I went in and sat down with her, and I said, Rhonda, I love Jesus like I used to love him. God broke my heart. I saw a poor little country preacher that loved Jesus. He had on tattered pants and holes in his shoes. God told me, do you see that preacher? I said, yes. He said, that preacher loves me. He doesn't have big crowds, but he loves me. He said, you don't, and you make me sick. I wept. I explained to my daughter, she's always loved me. After the Lord had taken that claw out of my brain and set me free two years ago, my teenage daughter would look at me, and I'd catch her crying. I'd say, Rhonda, why are you crying? She'd just be watching me. I'd say, honey, why are you crying? She'd say, you, daddy, you're so different. You're so different. Here's a man that she loved so much, and in her little eyes, she thought he was perfect, but she saw such a change that she knew a work had occurred that was beyond what she'd seen. She's watched the result of that work. There is such a purifying work occurring through my own life and in the church today that Isaiah 33, 14 is becoming reality. Don't turn there. Just listen. Sinners are terrified in Zion. Sinners are terrified in the church. Trembling takes hold of the godless. You know what that means? That means that there's such a real work happening in the church of Jesus Christ today, such a pure work, such a holy work, such an undeniable work that everyone who worships self and worships their own vision in this pulpit are out here. Everyone who is given to idolatry, yes, even religious idolatry, everyone who has their heart divided and is double-minded is becoming so fearful for their deeds are about to be exposed, and God says, I'm going to lift your skirts and show everyone your nakedness, and I'm going to reveal the foundations upon which you've been building. You've built on sand. You've built the walls with untempered martyr. You've daubed them with whitewash. You've seen vain visions, and you're living in superficiality, and that work is so pure today that it is frightening those in the church and in the pulpits who are walking after this world. There's never been a day I talked to the pastor, and he said, You have no idea how frightened the preachers in this country are right now. They are terrified. They are terrified, and I said, Well, you know something? Up until two years ago, I was terrified, too, because I was so afraid something was going to happen to my donor base, my support base, my financial base. I was so afraid something was going to happen to my supporters and to my ministry that I had built, but I said, When God set me free, I realized that when He does it, you don't fear because it cannot be shaken down, and if you're afraid for what you've built, the fact is you've built it, and He didn't, and you better fear because it's going to be shaken down. He's going to tear down and shake down everything that can be shaken because our God is a consuming fire. The fact is I do not fear for my supporters. I don't have any. I do not fear for my followers. I don't have any. I do not fear for my vision. I don't have one. I no longer even have a ministry. Jesus Christ told me two years ago, He said, For 20 years, I've seen your ministry. He said, How would you like to see mine? His ministry cannot be shaken. I do not feel duty-bound to protect the people that listen to me. If they're listening to me, they're already in bondage, blinded by the enemy. I have been seeking to train people to have the ears of a disciple, to train their ears to hear only God, for only the Spirit can edify the spirit being. You can only receive from God. If you hear man, you must receive from God through that individual, and you must discern the Spirit, for many false prophets have gone forth into the earth. False prophets do not look like false prophets. They come as wolves in sheep's clothing. They masquerade as ministers of righteousness. They do not announce, Behold, a false prophet. They are not wicked men necessarily. They are deceived men. They are well-intentioned men. They have a desire to do that which they've been trained to do, but they've been trained by the wrong source and the wrong forces. They've been trained by the gods of this world. They've been trained by religious systems and religious leaders, and they've never trained their people to hear God. You can hear God as well as any preacher on the face of this earth, my dear little sheep. You can hear God as well as I can hear God. Chances are you may hear Him better than I hear Him. Hear ye Him. You can go into the holy of holies. You can ascend the hill of the Lord. You can enter into the presence of God and hear God for yourself. Do it in the name of Jesus. Do not make men your source. Highly esteem them for the work's sake. Do not turn away the anointing of God. You're receiving from the Spirit of God through that individual. You do not receive the superficiality of mere words, which are useless and lead to the ruin of the hearers. For when any man speaks, let it be the oracles of God. Do not strive about words. Don't wrangle about words. Don't be contentious about words. It'll spread like gangrene, like the canker, like blood poisoning through the entire body. You must hold fast that which is true. You must receive the words of life, for as the lawgiver Moses said, this is not an idle word for you. This is your life. Jesus said, the words that I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life. I don't fear for my support base. I don't have one. I'm simply a part of the body. I'm simply a part of what he's doing. I'm not building sandcastles or castles on the sand. I exalt him, lift him high, magnify him, and he raises up a people for himself that will no longer be invaded. They will no longer be plundered. They're going to be steadfast, unshakable in the faith with the whole armor of God, alert and sober and diligent because they know who their adversary is and they know they're not fighting with flesh and blood, but they're fighting with principalities and powers of darkness. And they know that the weapons of their warfare are not carnal, not fleshly, but mighty through God to the pulling down of every stronghold, tearing down every fortress and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and by his grace, ultimately in him, bringing every thought captive, obedient to Jesus. We're learning this. And my dear friend, if you have ears to hear, let him hear. But the church is moving now into the most supernatural manifestation of God's power in the life and history of the church. Even the New Testament church was moving from light into darkness rapidly. But the church today is moving from darkness into light rapidly. Theirs was a diminishing glory. Ours is an increasing glory. But we will be spotless and blameless and holy, sanctified in his truth, washed in the water of his word. He's coming to get a bride that looks like he looks, does what he does. We will do the ministry of Jesus. It will no longer merely be putting salve on our religious conscience to say that we pray for the sick. We believe in that. But we're going to heal the sick. You are. He didn't tell you to pray for the sick. He said, heal him. He said, he never rebuked a sick person for not getting well. He rebuked the believer for not believing to get him well. You're going to go in a power that's beyond you. You're going to be carried by the spirit. You're going to be in communication with God, but you're going to have to break out all tradition. You're going to have to root it out. You're going to have to tear down everything that exalts itself against that personal knowledge of the mind and will of God. You will be able to look and see what he says. You'll be able to look and see what he sees. It's going to be a new day for you. Church games are over, believer. It's a day of holiness and righteousness. You would have been better to never come here this morning than for you to go through those doors with a double mind. You're going to become more accountable than you've ever been in your life to walk out of here and walk in spirit and in truth. I mean to love him with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. Love him more than what others think about you. Love him more than you love your pastimes, your pleasures. You are to be totally consumed by the word of God when you walk through this door. Out of your innermost being will flow rivers of living water. You're his ambassadors. You're his priests and your kings. You'll no longer watch these men minister. Yes, they minister, but you will minister. He will minister through you. You are to do his works. You're going to see miracles. You're not going to be affected by what you don't see because you will have seen him and heard him. You're going to move in a new way. You don't have to shut out all the traffic that's coming against you now to tell you all the reasons. It won't work. It will work. It's his will. It's his way. He wants you to be different when you leave here today. He wants you to be a new person when you leave here today. He wants the word of God to be alive in your heart and in your hands. No longer something you examine or study, but something you eat like honey that you love because it's better than silver dried in the fire, better than gold. It is life. You're to fall so in love with Jesus that you'll be overwhelmed by that love. You'll no longer find satisfaction by merely showing up at the meeting house and saying we're free and committing all these abominations that Jeremiah referred to in the seventh chapter coming into the house, which tragically he said, you trust. You don't trust the house. This is the house of God. This is the meeting house. This is the temple of God. This is God's land and God's property. And from this field, he wishes to bring forth fruit a hundred fold. And it looks like Jesus. So God wants for you today. God will change your life. If you arrange your heart, not your garments, if you'll cut away the foreskin of your hearts, the pocket for potential impurity, storing it up, tear it out and let the spirit of God come to say, now not water to wade in, not knee deep, not waist deep water to swim in a flood that you cannot control. You don't control a flood. He controls you. And he's going to bring into you his very personality, his very travail, his very compassion, his very courage and confidence and boldness. And he wants to send you out of here today like that. He's going to change this church, this body, this family. You're not going to be concerned about whether or not you're known as an assembly of God church or some other kind of church. You're going to be his church. Signs on the door won't make any difference. The signs that follow him will be the difference. We don't follow signs, but the signs follow him because we follow him. He does these things. And you imagine what would happen if this place became a place of love, where you really love one another, where the agony that would grip you would be so great. If you were sitting on a pew by someone that you saw hurting, do you understand that you are sitting by immeasurable grief? Do you know the hurts that are in the hearts of people around you? Have you even cared? Or do you just look up here at these men and say, I hope you help them. You're the church. You're his witness. God makes you so sensitive to the needs of others around you, but you're literally carried by his spirit. When the Lord set me free and began to allow me to be carried by his spirit, I could see the tendencies in my life to grow the unwholesome fruit. I refer it to ugly weeds and briars coming up in my land and my field. Your life is your field. May I ask you if there are any weeds and briars and thorns that come up in you? I had a preacher point his finger at me one night in my own conference and asked me on the front row with thousands of people there. He said, are you like Jesus? Pointed his finger right at me. He said, are you like Jesus? I wanted to shrug it off and hope that he was talking to the man behind me, but he, he was rather personal about it. He said, are you like Jesus? Are you really like Jesus? God created us to be like him. And then you know what that preacher said to me? He said, why don't I ask your wife if you're like Jesus? And I thought then, why don't you not ask my wife if I'm like Jesus? And then the man said, why don't I ask your children if you're like Jesus? And strange, but it came to my mind at that very moment, how just the day before I was helping my daughter saddle a little pony. And she always depended on daddy. After all, daddy and mother had taught her to depend on daddy and mother, perhaps too much as we tend to do when we really love them. Sometimes our protection is even improper. God bless every compassionate mother, because that can be a problem. But I had helped her and I was helping her saddle a little pony. And I was trying to show her how, and I said, do it like this. And she just lazily began to move the strap. And I said, do it like that. And when I did, I mashed her thumb. And she looked up in tears in her eyes and she said, daddy, that hurt. And I grabbed her. I said, I'm so sorry. God knows I'm so impatient outside him. And that preacher was asking me, why don't I ask your children if you're like Jesus? And I remembered how unlike him so often I am. But the Lord began to work a change in my life because of his grace, which is exactly what he wants to accomplish right here today. So that when you walk out of this place, everybody that sees you will know mother and daddy are different. My daddy's different. My mother's different. My husband's different. My wife's different. And the Lord began to carry me along in the spirit. That was one of the first things that I noticed. The things that irritated me didn't irritate me. Listen, folks, I can't resist those irritations. The beauty of where God began to carry me in the spirit was that my responses and my reactions were not programmed by James Robinson. I didn't just say, I know how I'm supposed to act and I'm going to do it right. I know I'm supposed to forgive and I'm going to forgive. I know that I'm supposed to be patient and I'm going to be patient. It was not there. Someone would offend me. They would hurt me. And I loved him. And I forgave. Something would come that should irritate me. And there was no irritation. You know what was happening? Jesus was showing up. It wasn't me at all. It wasn't a programmed response. It was an overwhelming response. I not only was an individual possessing the spirit, the spirit was possessing my body. My mortal body was being swallowed up with the life of God. This one, that's why my body was so flooded with health, that I lived in such absolute health that I could feel my body shifting up every day in vigor, in vitality, in stamina. At the time that the healing streams came in my body, every functioning gland in my body ached. I could feel the pains of the vital organs in my body throbbing. I was hurting. I carried infection for 10 to 12 years that never left my blood system. I lived hurting. And when the spirit of God was carrying me, his word was in my bones. It was health to my whole flesh. The very blood was purified by the word. And I felt my body being carried into health beyond measure, vitality, and strength to the point that I went on occasion for many weeks without ever being conscious of being unconscious in sleep. I would lie there and pray. I would read the Bible all night, which is not the norm, but I never was fatigued. Then God would say, sleep now. And sometimes it'd be in the middle of the day and I'd sleep. I was being carried by the spirit. It was the most amazing thing. And I finally began to say to people, as the glory of God was just filling my body and my being, I said, I understand now why we must have a new body. This one simply can't contain the glory. And I knew that I was moving from glory to glory to glory. During that period of time, there was not a single person I prayed for by telephone or in person that was not healed instantly. Instantly. I'm talking instantly. I'm talking about where there'd been such severe damage that as much as 50% of the heart muscle had been totally destroyed. Instantly healed and confirmed by DeBakey and the doctors that were there in the Houston hospital. I'm talking about miracles. I'm talking about miracles so certain that I would be told that someone was going to die while I was on the phone. And I would begin to laugh with hilarity, laugh, not in mockery. I knew, I knew they would live and not die. I knew they would get up. I didn't psych myself into it. I knew, I knew. When I prayed for people, I could never hear the thought that they might not get well. It never registered in my mind that they might not. Did you hear what I just said? The thought never got to my mind that they might not. How do you get like that? How does the word prevail like that? I can't explain it. It's not a one, two, three. It's him. It's not step ABC. It's him. But I was carried in a way I'd never been before. Oh, sure. There were things I didn't understand. And there was agony and hurt in my heart. But I knew, I knew God knows how beautiful he is and how beautiful are the feet of those who bring the tidings of good news. You know why you have beautiful feet? Because they're planted firmly on the word and firmly on the back of all the enemies. And when you walk in the room, peace fills the room because you are above the enemy on the word. I have glories. During this period of the time, the Lord began to make me so sensitive to people's needs. I can't distinguish the sound and the voice or discern the spirits because they're in such captivity, but you don't need to live that way anymore because you're in such captivity. You have an unction, the Holy Spirit, who will guide you to truth if you allow him to and not make men your source. Well, I said no to that spirit. We finally got to the counter and I ordered and I wanted to help those behind me. So while she was getting my burger, I moved over so that those behind me could move up and think that they were moving faster when in fact they weren't because I was still going to have to get my burger before she took their order. But I did move over and they did move up. And I'm standing here in the Burger King and my children are watching me waiting for the fireworks show. It's not the Fourth of July, but Daddy is waiting. They knew that they saw Fourth of July celebrations many times in my house over the most minor things. I can remember one time getting on my son and I remember the terror in his eyes. Randy, do you remember when Daddy got angry? Oh, I do, Daddy. I said, is that healed yet, Randy? Yes, Daddy. Oh, God, I don't want my children to be afraid of me because I'm unpredictable. Well, they were waiting for the fireworks display, but the fireworks never came because when I stepped aside, the Lord Jesus said to me, would you please look at that little girl that's waiting on you? And I looked at her and the Lord Jesus said, would you please look at the other little girls that are waiting on counters? And I did. They had on appropriate caps for fast food service handlers and from beneath their caps, the other girls had the prettiest hair and curls and they were so pretty. You could tell that either their mother or the beauty salon had given great care to helping them with their hair. And the Lord said, doesn't their hair look nice? I said, yes, it does, Lord. He said, would you please look at the little girl that's waiting on you? And I did. And her hair stuck out from under her cap in the uneven, jagged ends. No beauty operator had cut her hair. No mother had cut her hair. She had obviously stood in front of the mirror and cut her hair. And God said to me, James, her mother doesn't help her with her hair. She may not have one. These other girls are working here to get extra spending money. She's working here to get all she'll have. He said, James, do you know that every morning when that girl walks in the bathroom to dress and she looks in the mirror, there's a voice that says to her, you're so ugly and you're so dumb. You're dumb. And she looks and she believes that voice and she hurts. And all she needs now is for some big shot preacher to come up and tell her how dumb she is. And James, you will pretty well ruin her life. Jesus said, James, love her. Please love her. And I did. And Jesus came and my children saw the glory. Love never fails. It's seldom released. We're too busy being religious. God deliver us. God deliver us. This is James Roberts. And I want to say just a personal word to you at this moment. Love never fails. And I sense that in your own spirit now, the love of God is being expressed to you and hopefully will be expressed through you with a new dynamic and in new dimensions. I want to summarize what I believe I've shared with you in the message thus far by sharing an illustration of undistracted love, how God brought me into undistracted love. I want to illustrate it for you by referring you to a personal experience that my wife and I had in Christ. I think it'll really be a blessing to you. So I'm going to pick up in the very dynamic moment when the power of God was moving as I closed a message in another meeting the night before I preached the message you just heard. And this closing illustration ties everything together in very clear fashion. I believe it will minister to you in a very significant way as I share what God did in my own life and in my wife, Betty. I pray the Lord will bless this to your life and that you will see so clearly that love never, never fails. May God give you undistracted love for our Lord and for those within the family of God. Lord, my wife is so beautiful. If you could see her, you'd wonder how she could ever think she wasn't pretty. You know, she thought she was ugly and she thought she was dumb and she lived fearful. If you could see her, you'd say that's one of the classiest looking women, one of the most petite, beautiful, and she really is women I've ever seen. How could she ever think that she wasn't beautiful because the enemy is cruel and mean and vicious. Well, my little wife loves to put her head on my shoulder. But starting at our Bible conference when the Spirit of God was flowing at about two o'clock in the morning, my wife was crying. I said, Betty, what's wrong with you? She said, James, Jesus is holding me right now in his arms and Jesus is telling me he's pleased with me and he loves me and he's got his arms around me. My wife said he's gotten his place. Something happened to her that night. Later, the Holy Spirit came on my wife in such power. It was such love. She began to speak another language, Hebrew. She didn't know it. The power of God was so on her. You know something? All she could see was Jesus. You know what happened to her? Suddenly, I was no longer first to her. She died to me and she and Jesus became one in a way they never, she had never known they were one. You know what happened when that happened to her? The love of God came right through her, right over onto me, right through me and right back on her. Here's what God did. Right through her, right back and right back on her and I started loving my wife in a way no man can love his wife. I began to love my wife like Jesus loves the church and the Lord let me see that. That night, blind eyes were open. Tumors almost as large as your fist disappeared. The lame walked. One man was so moved by the power of God, several people said he was off the ground. At least five people told me he was off the ground with the power of God. He said, I don't believe in things like that. I don't care. Let me tell you what happened to me. When I saw the glory come down that night, I hit the floor but the whole time the glory was on us with all these miracles. You know what I was doing? Even on the floor before the Lord, I was watching Betty. We ate supper together before the service. I'm holding her hand under the table. I could hardly eat. She couldn't eat. I had her hand. We sat in the service during the preaching. I'm holding her hand. All the miracles are occurring. I'm holding her hand. I go to the floor. I'm watching her. That night we went to bed. This is the gospel truth. I had a man come and tell me the night. He was furious at me for saying this. He said, I don't think it's the truth but it is the truth and God knows it. I went to bed that night and held my wife. I just held and held her. There was no physical expression of love other than just holding her. And boy does she like to just be held. Little girls like to be held. Surely women like to be held. So do men. So do men. As I was holding her, I just said, honey, I love you. Have I told you how much I love you? And she'd smile. Five minutes later, I'd say, honey, have I told you how much I love you? She said, just a few minutes ago, you told me. I said, Betty, I just love you. And I just held her and she'd just smile at me. And she went to sleep and I was just watching her. Do you know that all night, God knows it's true, I watched my wife. I just lay there by her and I watched her. During the night, she would turn and her shoulder would get uncovered and I'd pull the cover up over her shoulder and just watch her. Two times during the night when she had turned over the other way, she was awakened by me up on my knees, leaning over her like this, looking in her face and she opened her eyes. And when she opened her eyes, I said, I just wanted you to know I love you. And when I said it, when I said it, she'd just smile like that and go back to sleep with a smile on her face. I just let, let me tell you, that's several months ago. It hadn't stopped yet. We're just from silly. Our kids are just laughing at us. We walk around in the office and we just go everywhere. It's, it's incredible and it's real. It's not put on. I don't like that phony baloney stuff. Don't want you pushing on me. I don't want you trying to get me to do something. I don't want that. I want God to work in my life. But he worked so much love in her, in me toward her. He said, now you're learning to love your wife like I love the church. And he said, I'm going to teach you to learn to love the church like I love the church. Here's what Betty said to me. She said, James, during those times when I knew I loved you, oh God, I loved you. And I knew you didn't love me. I knew you wanted to, but I knew you didn't love me like I love you. She said, Jesus has shown me how he loves his church. Oh, how he loves them. But they don't love him like he loves them. But we're going to. We're going to love him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. He wants to move you into a relationship of love that surpasses anything you've ever known. And he wants you to go in that love relationship because love never, never fails.
Restoration Series #3 - Love Never Fails
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James Robison (1943–present). Born on October 9, 1943, in Pasadena, Texas, to an impoverished, unmarried mother, Myra Wattinger, James Robison was raised by foster parents, Rev. H.D. and Katie Hale, after being advertised for adoption in a newspaper. Converted at 15 during a revival led by Troy Brookshire, he began preaching at 16, ordained as a Southern Baptist evangelist by 19. Known for fiery crusades, he drew thousands across the U.S., speaking nightly at events like the 1979 Orlando crusade, where he reached 10,000 attendees. In 1965, he founded James Robison Evangelistic Association, and by 1982, launched The James Robison Show, later renamed LIFE Today, broadcasting on over 300 stations and reaching millions globally, addressing faith, politics, and charity. Robison authored over a dozen books, including The Absolutes (2002), Living in Love (1998), and God of All Creation (2012), emphasizing biblical truth and family values. A key figure in the Moral Majority, he influenced evangelical politics, meeting leaders like Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. Married to Betty Freeman since 1963, he has three children—Rhonda, Robin, and Randy—and 11 grandchildren, surviving a 2008 throat cancer diagnosis. Based in Fort Worth, he leads LIFE Outreach International, supporting missions like water wells in Africa. Robison said, “The Gospel is God’s love invading man’s darkness with His light.”