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Dr. Robert Duckworth of Dallas Seminary joins us on Encouragement Live

>> Don Hawkins: Coming up on Encouragement Live, recent events in our nation and world have left us with the feeling that a solution is needed and God has provided the ultimate solution. Dr. Robert Duckworth of Dallas Seminary joins us to talk about it on, Encouragement Live.

>> Steve: Welcome to Encouragement Live, providing biblically based encouragement and insight on a wide range of practical life issues. Now, here's your host, Don Hawkins, author of Master Discipleship Today.

>> Don Hawkins: Thank you, Steve, and friend. It's so good to have you with us. As live from studios located in First Christian Church of Wylie, Texas, Encouragement Communications presents Encouragement Live. Our mission is to provide biblically based encouragement and insight on a wide range of practical life issues. One of our ministry partners, Dallas Theological Seminary, where I have the privilege of graduating shortly after Noah's ark landed. Ah, Dr. Robert Duckworth is back with me. He's also an alumnus of Dallas Seminary. Robert, good to have you back on the show.

>> Md Perkins: I feel so good to be back at home at First Christian Church and in the studio.

You also teach counseling at Dallas Theological Seminary

>> Don Hawkins: You are at home. Would love to have had you here today. we had a strategic planning meeting, vision casting meeting. Great. One of my elders led the meeting and had a great response. Great turnout. We had people, from from teenage years to 80s sharing their vision, their goals, their objectives, to see what God could do through this church. And, afterward I talked with four people who plan to join the church tomorrow.

>> Md Perkins: So that's some vision and it's. You have more visionaries coming in?

>> Don Hawkins: Yes, we do. Very excited. Robert is the director of counseling services at the seminary. He provides leadership to all the seminary wellness initiatives, benefiting students, staff and faculty. he also enjoys launching new counselors into that field as assistant professor in the school of Counseling at Richmond Graduate University's online campus. You also teach counseling at Dallas Theological Seminary. And, and your focus is on biblical counselors, right?

>> Md Perkins: Yes, and we use an integration model where we don't take away from, the practicality of psychology, but we don't. We dare not take away from the reverence of scripture and theology.

>> Don Hawkins: So important that we measure everything by scripture. That was when I was at Minrith Meyer. That was, the mantra that we operated by was that we measure everything by Scripture. Any place that psychology deviates from scripture, we throw it out.

>> Md Perkins: Throw it out.

>> Don Hawkins: We go with the scripture, all scriptures. Scripture is God breathed and profitable.

What the World Needs Now is Love Sweet love. That's our goal tonight on Encouragement Live

Which leads us to our topic tonight, what the World Needs Now. And Rodney Love suggested that we open the program by playing that song from, I believe it was Dion Warwick years ago. What the World Needs now is Love Sweet love. But I don't think, I don't think that's the song that we want to play because we're going to talk about Jesus tonight. And you have a shirt on that says ask me about Jesus. I. All of you who have, video tonight are able to see. Well, actually, nobody has video tonight, but that's okay. you know, it seems like every time you come on the show, you've had some kind of a new insight, new revelation, new discovery every time. And, I think, this is one of those situations I need to keep coming.

>> Md Perkins: I'm going to continue to get encouragement.

>> Don Hawkins: We're going to continue to invite you to come because you do a wonderful job. And by the way, tonight, we are going to focus on, some things, things that you have been doing in preparation for some sermons and the venue in which you're going to preach those. I want to save the revelation about that for after the next break. And if you want to call us tonight, friend, we want to talk about Jesus. We want to talk about the gospel, because that's what we think the world needs. Some people say today what the world needs is, political insights, conservative or liberal or whatever. Some people say what the world needs today is psychological insights.

>> Md Perkins: Sites.

>> Don Hawkins: We're here to tell you that what the world needs is what Paul said. I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is the power of God to everyone who believes. As the Apostle Paul said, I determine not to know anyone among you except Jesus Christ in him crucified. That's our goal tonight on Encouragement Live, the toll free number. 855-586-5433. And we'll be right back.

>> Steve: We're over 100 years old.

>> Don Hawkins: Dallas Theological Seminary President Dr. Mark Yarbrough on the seminary's motto, teach truth, love. Well, that is what we do.

>> Steve: That's our slogan that we use. Obviously, it's preach the word for all of us. We are called to teach truth and live it out.

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Robert Duckworth says he was called to preach at a young age

>> Don Hawkins: And now for the unveiling with Dr. Robert Duckworth, who is here tonight to talk about what the world needs now is the gospel of Jesus Christ and the power of God to salvation that it provides. Robert, tell us about the experience that you've recently had in sermon preparation and sermon delivery. What did you discover?

>> Md Perkins: Well, Don, back in August, our church, we were doing a series and it's continuing now on the book of Acts. So I, Acts four landed on me at the first Sunday in August. And so my, my pinpoint verse in there was 4:12 that it says, there's no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved. And I did a full blown sermon on that. But as I was preaching that Sunday on this sermon, in this sermon, I told the congregation and when you say things publicly, it's on YouTube, it's all out there. You, you're stuck to that and you're held to that. But I had no problem saying it. I felt good about it. I felt as though in my sermon preparation, Don, as if I had been called to the ministry of preaching all over, again.

>> Don Hawkins: Well that's a powerful thought. And I know you, like me, were called to the ministry at a fairly young age. I was, I was about 15, 16 years old.

>> Md Perkins: I was older than that. Now of course I didn't come to, I wasn't a Christian until I was 28.

>> Don Hawkins: Well, yeah, you couldn't have been called to preach before then. Although Paul said God called me from my mother's womb. So, ah, you know, in terms of God's providential determination, yes, but in terms of experience and getting saved and coming to Christ and growing in Christ. It was after your 28th birthday and your first spiritual birthday.

>> Md Perkins: It was probably my 32nd birthday. It was when I was about, it was 2004 when I went into ministry. But to feel that second calling and I knew it was just God saying, let's go to another level with the call to preach that you have and.

>> Don Hawkins: Focusing on preaching the gospel. Gospel clearly, you know, being called to preach. I mean preachers preach on a lot of topics. I'm preaching through proverbs right now actually. Ah, selective passages. You don't really preach through proverbs. Anybody preaches through, tells you they're preaching through proverbs. Check them out because you, you select passages. I'm, tomorrow I'm doing actually three basic topics out of Proverbs that are advice that the father Solomon is giving to his son, probably Rehoboam. And you know, there's a lot of good advice. I'm not going to preach that sermon right now. I want to hear more about Acts 4:12.

>> Md Perkins: So in the preparation of that and just really this heart of mine to prepare that sermon to get the congregation and all of those that would hear that sermon in subsequent venues on YouTube or whatever when those sermons are posted, I wanted people to see how zeroed in I was on the Gospel of Jesus and on the name of Jesus being the only way by which we must be saved. And I wanted to convey that message so hard because we know that in so many churches today that's not being preached. Yes, we're going in many other directions with things and not honing in on.

>> Don Hawkins: The bullseye of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and eternity. Robert is at stake on that.

>> Md Perkins: Absolutely.

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>> Md Perkins: Any stretch and I get to witness that every time I come here. Just I feel like I know everybody when I come here. and you know you are at home, let me tell you, you know when you're at home, you know you're at home when you don't have to put the location in your GPS because you know how to get here.

>> Don Hawkins: You know how to get here.

>> Md Perkins: And then when I got here, I need to go to the restroom. I knew exactly where the restrooms were.

>> Don Hawkins: Yeah, right. And that's important, you know, if you're going to do an hour of live radio, you don't want to have to run to the restroom during a, ah, two minute break. I'm I used to do a morning show in Kansas City and I would have a four minute break and the restroom was on a different floor in the building. I had to run down the stairs, cross the building to the restroom, back, probably too much information. And get back before the four minutes was up. And this is like in the morning while I'm drinking coffee. So pretty good, doc. Back then I could run fast, but not so much now.

Robert: Don, God called you to speak about the gospel at home

And Robert, I want to tie what you discovered about Acts 4:12 into what Paul said about the gospel. In the passage I quoted, Romans 1:16. It's the power of God to salvation to everyone that believes.

>> Md Perkins: And the key is I'm not ashamed of the gospel. And so one of the things, after I prepared that sermon, preached it the next night, every Monday night, my brother and I, my older brother Rod and I do a Bible study, just us Two, we do a Bible study. We've been doing the book of Daniel. And I asked Rod that week. I said, rod, I, know we've been doing Daniel. I said, but could we pause this week on Daniel and take a look at the sermon text that I did yesterday at church? For one, I was probably better prepared to do that than my book of my study of Daniel, because I just read it and preached it.

>> Don Hawkins: And God had laid that on your heart, too, which is big.

>> Md Perkins: He did it because this was. That's what I, On here, partially on here today to talk about is from that conversation with Rod on our Bible study that evening. I said, rod, I told him. I gave a, testimony of something that had been occurring with me. I had been dreaming about home a lot. Our home in Arkansas, where I grew up.

>> Don Hawkins: You grew up there?

>> Md Perkins: Grew up in Arkansas. And I said, rod, I've been having dreams about home. He said, I get those a lot since our parents have passed away. I said, I've been having them so much, lately. I said, and then I pair it with this sermon that I preached on yesterday. I feel like God is calling me to say something at home.

>> Don Hawkins: Yeah. Okay. Now, do you have a venue in which you could say something about the gospel at home in Arkansas?

>> Md Perkins: So let me give you a little story on that, a backdrop.

>> Don Hawkins: Okay. Yeah.

>> Md Perkins: Do I need a break? Because let me tell you, man, we.

>> Don Hawkins: Have plenty of time.

>> Md Perkins: So here's where. Here's where we are, because this is a story, man. Four years ago, I lost my mother. My dad had passed away before that, maybe 11 years before her. And so when she passed away, I remember being down there for the funeral. And I was in the yard where I grew up, standing in the yard, looking across the pasture, and the fences had grown up with briars and sweet gum trees and all of these things. And I was like, I have to do something with this property. I said, but, Lord, I want to glorify you with this property that our parents have left us. What can I do to glorify you and Don? A vision, a thought of it came to my mind. I was like, man, it would be great if I could just have, like, this nice pavilion out here and from time to time, come down here and do a revival. And I was like. And it was more like a fleeting thought. And I said, well, maybe I should start slow. Just get a tent and put on the property and have a revival. That went in my mind, out of my mind. Probably came back a few other times, right? Fast forward Rod and I are having Bible study.

>> Don Hawkins: Yeah.

>> Md Perkins: I tell him about, I feel like there's something I need to say. Back at home in Crossett, Arkansas.

>> Don Hawkins: Yeah.

>> Md Perkins: And Rod says, well, what do you think, that's all about? I said, I've even thought maybe the first pastor that. I said it jokingly. The first pastor that tells me, hey, we'd love for you to come down here, maybe do a three night revival. We'd love for that to happen. I said I would know at that moment God was calling me to do something. My brother started shaking his head on the zoom call, Don. He was just shaking his head like no. He said, why don't you go throw a tent up on the property?

>> Don Hawkins: On the property.

>> Md Perkins: I had never talked to my brother about this, Don, ever.

>> Don Hawkins: Yeah, that is powerful. And lo and behold, the vision was confirmed. And now you are actually scheduled to have a three day tent revival near Cross it, Arkansas. By the way, we have a lot of Arkansas listeners. American family radio literally has saturated the state of Arkansas with Christian radio. And I have a suspicion we may get some calls from there tonight. people want to find out more about this. What are going to be the dates and what is the specific location?

>> Md Perkins: The dates are October 30, October 31 and November 1. That's a Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening at about 6:30. The venue where we're going to have the event, this three night revival is in the front yard, Don, where I played baseball, had a basketball. We are doing it at our house.

>> Don Hawkins: Where you grew up. You are using. You obviously have a big front yard and what a wonderful experience that's going to be. What a powerful opportunity. And how, where is this located with respect? Across at Arkansas. Because it, it sounds like it's not in town.

>> Md Perkins: We grew up out in the country.

>> Don Hawkins: I grew up out in the country too, in Alabama. So I know about out in the country and in the country we went to school barefoot and it was uphill both ways. Barefoot in the snow.

>> Md Perkins: Well, we had a bus, Don. We got a bus to get to school when I was going there.

>> Don Hawkins: Okay.

>> Md Perkins: But it's. Oh really? It's in North Crossett, which is north of Crossett.

A tent revival is planned for this weekend in Crossett, Arkansas

our home is located, where there's a Prairie Country Club and people from around there know that. Prairie Country Club. We live there and we're north of that, about a mile north of that in Crossett, Arkansas. that's where the venue will be. And outside of town. Yeah, we have space for people to park.

>> Don Hawkins: Yeah.

>> Md Perkins: Ah, Very few people are on that road. We're the last house on the road. our property is on both sides of that road. So we're there. And so this is a way to glorify God with what God blessed our parents with what he's given to us, as children. And I'm just thoroughly excited about it. And of course, we knew, well, we have to put the tent in the yard because that's where the power source is there. We have to have somewhere to plug some of this stuff.

>> Don Hawkins: That is the place to put it. I'm sure some people, especially people that know you from Dallas Seminary and you, know your counseling practice that you've had over the years. Years are saying, now wait a minute. Some people would say it's kind of ironic because here you are, a clinical specialist who would say the ultimate answer to the problems of our world is preaching the gospel and doing so in a tent revival.

>> Md Perkins: Because this is salvific.

>> Don Hawkins: Yeah.

>> Md Perkins: Therapy is not salvific. I continue every Monday through Friday when I go to the seminary as the director of counseling services, when I'm preparing those students to go into their internships and their practicums to go into provide those services to their clients, I am pushing therapy.

>> Don Hawkins: Sure.

>> Md Perkins: This weekend in Arkansas is a direct bullseye focus on the gospel of Jesus Christ. Now, I do believe this, Don. I do believe this. A person comes to know Christ, they will be theologically, we understand it from the New Testament, be indwelled with the Holy Spirit.

>> Don Hawkins: Right.

>> Md Perkins: The Holy Spirit could very well lead them to get the kinds of services and help that they need. But purpose of this event is not for me to promote myself as a therapist or as a counselor educator. It is to promote the gospel of Jesus Christ. It's really a First Corinthians 15:1. My brethren, I want to make known the gospel.

>> Don Hawkins: Amen. And we believe the gospel is indeed the ultimate answer to all of the problems of this world because they all are traced back to the fall of man, right?

>> Md Perkins: Oh, yeah.

>> Don Hawkins: Yeah. Adam and Eve had a choice in the garden of Eden, had the opportunity to obey God and not eat that fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And some slick shyster salesman named Satan comes along and that snake in the grass wasn't in the grass at the time he was walking upright.

>> Md Perkins: Yep.

>> Don Hawkins: And he convinced Eve, and she convinced Adam. And it said in Romans 5:12, by one man, sin entered into the world, and death by sin. And so death passed on everybody. So all have sinned all need the God. There won't be a person there who hasn't either trusted Christ and benefited from the gospel or hasn't trusted Christ and needs the gospel. Right.

>> Md Perkins: And that's exactly who we're targeting. And we're targeting, really the main audience we're targeting are those that are lost and don't know Christ. we have to reach those that do not know Christ. My brother and I have agreed. If one person, Person receives Christ, it is worth the tent, the expenditures, and all of the things we. Even the electricity, the electricity, all of those things. God will be glorified because we don't know who that one person might end up being. They may be a DL. Moody. They may be the next, Tony Evans or whomever, you name it. The next Don Hawkins, who will have a voice on the radio.

>> Don Hawkins: Robert Duckworth, who also has a voice on the radio. I have to tell you my story, which is similar to that. When I was in seminary, we were living in Hillsborough. I was pastoring a small church and working for a local radio station there, of all things. My friend Larry Moyer, you know him well, he's an evangelist. And he and I were in school together. And we invited Larry to come down and we had the Hill County Evangelistic Crusade. We invited a number of churches in and we had the opportunity. And racial relations back then were a little tense. You may remember those days. And. And, I remember one of my deacons, I was really wondering, you know, how's he going to respond? And I saw the first African American family walking up with. Football stadium was where we had it, football stadium. not as good as a tent, but good. And he's out there welcoming them and shaking hands. Let me show you to your seat. And I, Thank you, Lord. not only are we improving race relations, but people of all races and colors and creeds are coming to hear the gospel. I want to encourage our listening family to pray for Dr. Robert Duckworth to pray for this evangelistic initiative in North Crossett, Arkansas. Near the Prairie Country Club, correct?

>> Md Perkins: That's right.

>> Don Hawkins: And that'll be October 30th, 31st and 1st November, and that's coming up this year, the year of our Lord 2025. Be praying about that. You'll be hearing more about that. We'll put the word out and just encourage folks to come and be a great opportunity. Our toll free number is 855-586-5433. Maybe you have a question about your own relationship with Christ, or maybe you have a passion for sharing the gospel as Robert does. Give us a call. We'll be back on Encouragement Live There.

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Robert Duckworth is preparing for a tent revival in suburban Arkansas next month

>> Steve: Welcome back to encouragement live. Our toll free number is is 855-586-LIFE. Here again is your host Don Hawkins, author of master discipleship today.

>> Don Hawkins: Dr. Robert Duckworth is with me tonight on the program telling me about an exciting vision that God has given him to preach The Gospel in suburban Arkansas. I say suburban, rural, near North Crossett, Arkansas. And that's coming up October 30th and 31st and November 1st. And a tent revival. You know, as I recall, Robert, and you may remember this as well, Billy, Graham had been known to preach intense in the beginning of his ministry, and a lot of other people have preached revivals intense. I can remember as a young person going to tent revivals and, going also with my wife to a Methodist campground, Shiloh camp meeting in Mississippi, where people preached the gospel. And, they would literally come out there and camp out for a week or two weeks, during the summer. And, they'd have people get saved every night. It was exciting.

>> Md Perkins: That's exactly what I'm anticipating. That's what I've been praying about. I think that, like I said, the main demographic we're looking for are folks that don't know Jesus Christ for the pardoning of their sins. The other demographic is those that do. To bring someone who doesn't.

>> Don Hawkins: Yes. Amen to that. Yeah. And, you know, bringing somebody, to hear Robert Duckworth preach, I want to tell you folks, it will be a wonderful occasion, an opportunity. And. And again, you don't have to be a gifted evangelist to be able to say, hey, I'm going to hear this guy. I heard him on the radio, heard him talking about this tent revival. I want to find out what he's going to be talking about. And I'd like for you to go with me and you invite that person to come along. It may make all the difference for eternity.

Robert Duckworth says tent revival in Cross, Arkansas, was successful

Now, I want to ask you this, this is kind of something the miracle health and mental health people call the miracle question. at the conclusion of this revival, this tent revival, what would let you know that it was successful? How would you measure is that people.

>> Md Perkins: Came and they had the opportunity to at least hear the gospel and hear it in an unadulterated format where we're focusing strictly on the scriptures and what it says about pointing you to Jesus Christ. All I can do is present the Gospel, the Holy Spirit, and what would really be the miracle is when the Holy Spirit intervenes and hearts are changed and. And I walk away from that weekend at my house. My house, your home, where you grew up. I am bringing. You know how private people are about their homes.

>> Don Hawkins: Sure.

>> Md Perkins: This is m. This is an intimate part of my life, but I realized after my parents passed away that that house did not have the same feel. It's not the same home. Altogether, they're not there anymore.

>> Don Hawkins: Yeah, the people aren't there. That's the deal.

>> Md Perkins: And that's the thing. And so what I. If I have a list of that, I have the responsibility of getting them somewhere to be discipled after that. That will be the miracle that I'm looking for. And that a, collective body of people. That's why we're doing it in my yard. Not at a church where you get a certain demographic that goes to this kind of church. A certain demographic that goes to this kind of church. No, we're doing it in a neutral location, the Duckworth family yard, next to where our barn is, where our cows used to be, where our horses used to get saddled up. And we're going to present the gospel and then we can send them out to churches. And if I could find pastors that would come and say, we want to partner with you to walk alongside these people and help them grow in Christ. Not feel seats in our churches.

>> Steve: Right.

>> Md Perkins: Not going down to feel down there to fill seats in churches. I'm going down there to fill seats in the kingdom.

>> Don Hawkins: Amen. Now, Robert, I can't help thinking, and I was thinking literally before you mentioned pastors, there would probably be some pastors in that part of Arkansas and maybe even other parts of Arkansas, because people could drive into Cross at Arkansas, from Little Rock, people could drive in there from northern Arkansas, northeast, northwest, Jonesboro, Fort Smith, who knows? And it would be worthwhile for them to come and bring somebody and let them hear you preach the gospel. could those pastors get in touch with you? You have an email address at Dallas Seminary. Would you be willing to share that email address with us? And, let me just say right now, if you are a pastor listening to encouragement live, especially on American Family Radio and especially in Arkansas or even in, in Cross, it is right off Highway 82. I've driven that way before. I know that road. When I was man, when, let me tell you, When I was 13 years old, I rode through Crossett, Arkansas on Highway 82 with my aunt and uncle, going from Birmingham, Alabama, to Orange County, California to Disneyland and by way of the Grand Canyon, the Painted Desert and the Petrified Forest. And I remember crossing Arkansas, one of the places we stopped there. I can't remember if we stopped for gas or stopped, to eat there, but I remember going through there. So that town rang a bell with me. And that's one of the things that's going to remind me to pray for you about this now. one of those pastors, and hopefully many of those pastors will say, we want our people to hear the gospel. We want m people in our community, and we'd like to get them to invite people to come to hear the gospel. How can they get in touch with you?

>> Md Perkins: Those pastors can email me@RDuckWorthDTS.edu.

>> Don Hawkins: Okay, that's a pretty simple email address. R. Duckworthts. Edu and what a tremendous opportunity that will be.

Robert Duckworth is preparing for a tent revival in his hometown of Arkansas

Now, Robert, you probably have thought of this as one of the craziest things you've ever done. And has any doubt ever crept in as you prepared for this event?

>> Md Perkins: this morning, last night, Tuesday? Yeah, it's supposed to be. And as I was telling you when I came in here, I have a challenge every so often with vertigo. And I'm like, that's interesting. Vertigo is coming. When I need to go and hang out with dawn this evening, I've had some doubts because it's not like I have a shortage of things to do. I'm not sitting around twiddling my thumbs forward plenty. You're doing them, probably doing more than I should. But, yes, I've had those doubts. And that convinces me all the more that when you are doing God's will, the enemy will try to make you doubt. And so that just gives me further confirmation, further fuel to go out and share the gospel in my yard, in my home. Even when I was trying to promote this thing on social media, I got frustrated because I haven't been on Facebook or any of that stuff in probably 13 years. My brother told me, he said, listen, man, let us focus on the social media. You preach the gospel.

>> Don Hawkins: Yeah. That's your job. You're the evangelist. You're the Billy Graham of your generation. And what an opportunity it is to proclaim the gospel in your hometown and to reach out to people who were raised where you were raised and people from that part of the world. And again, and some of you pastors, listening to us tonight, you share this vision. Here's an opportunity. Three nights that you could have people that you would bring out to this evangelistic, crusade, a tent revival. We're calling it the 30th, 31st and 1st, 30th and 31st of October and 1st of November, and that is of this year. And the email address to reach out to Robert is rduckworth earth@dts edu. And mentioning dts edu, I need to mention the fact that our favorite seminary is a great place to prepare people for ministry that's the place where you were prepared to preach the gospel? Absolutely. And to be able to do so with clarity. And I was as well, and I'm so thankful. And, Robert, I've had the opportunity on the radio to actually pray with people and lead people to saving Faith in Jesus Christ on this broadcast. And it's one of the, greatest privileges of my life through this program and Life Perspectives and the clinic before that, and. And just the opportunity we have to share the gospel with people. And so I want to say, if there's somebody listening to us tonight, you have a question about whether you are absolutely sure that if you died tonight or tomorrow, you'd go to heaven. You need to talk with Robert and me tonight because we have the answer. It's not us.

>> Md Perkins: Us. Not us.

>> Don Hawkins: it's Acts 4:12. The name of Jesus is the only name in heaven whereby we must be saved. 8 5, 5, 5, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 3. Our friend Cornelius is on the line from Louisiana, not too far from Arkansas. Good evening. Cornelius, go ahead.

>> Caroline: Hey, Don and Dr.

>> Caroline: Duck.

>> Caroline: work boy, it's good to hear from y'. All. And, I've been a longtime listener and caller. After my dad died, he was a tough Korean War vet.

>> Md Perkins: Okay.

>> Caroline: But that Covid took him out in 2020, and I was really depressed. But I want to tell y' all something. You, Chris and Rodney and the rest of the gang, y' all been praying for me. Dr. Duckworth.

>> Md Perkins: Hello, Cornelius.

>> Caroline: Shock shoes or pants? And they've been praying for me. I'm finally gonna get some home health care.

>> Don Hawkins: Amen.

>> Caroline: Three years in the same pants, and a year and six months without my feet being washed. They called me to buy you Bigfoot around here, so I know you've heard of Bigfoot up there in Arkansas.

>> Md Perkins: Oh, yeah, we heard of him.

>> Caroline: But y' all are. Y' all are really good. And, we just need to pray for the church. And I wish I could come up there and hear that. Your message and everything, but, I'm pretty much stuck in Alexandria.

>> Don Hawkins: Are you. Are you going to live stream it on Facebook maybe, or somewhere like that? You, know. That's a thought. Robert, you talk to your brother about that.

>> Md Perkins: We're planning that. We're trying to plan how to either get it in some type of digital format so we can put it back out on Facebook. Replicate what?

>> Don Hawkins: Multiply the ministry? Yeah, multiply the ministry.

>> Md Perkins: So let's see where the Lord leads on there. There may be someone that knows that. That emails me and they say, hey, Robert, this is how you do it. It may just take an iPhone. I don't know.

>> Don Hawkins: Yeah, I know people do that with that. We do that at church here, First Christian Church in Wyoming. we actually live stream our services. And I've had people from as far away as Pakistan and India who are regulars who listen to me preach God's word here. And, so Cornelius will be talking about that on the air if we find out from Robert that that's going to happen. And I know you'll be listening, and we are so thankful that God has answered prayer for you, getting you the home health care that you need.

Robert would you lead us in prayer for Cornelius

Robert, would you lead us in prayer for Cornelius? He served our country. He's a veteran as well as, his dad was Cornelius. You stay on the line. That music tells us. We're coming up on a break, so we're going to take that time out on the program. And friend, if you want to call us tonight, 855-586-5433. Maybe you're listening in Arkansas tonight. We'd love to hear from you. And we'll be right back on the broadcast.

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Robert Duckworth asks Cornelius to pray for his ongoing health issues

We're talking with Cornelius just as we went to the break. And Dr. Robert Duckworth, you are going to lead us in prayer, but I think you have some thoughts that you want to share with Cornelius, before we pray for him.

>> Md Perkins: Cornelius, are you still there?

>> Caroline: Yes, sir, I'm still here.

>> Md Perkins: Well, hey, hey, man. Listen, you encouraged me by just asking that question or just making the statement. I wish I could be there. And that prompted Don to say, robert, are you all going to live stream this? I hadn't thought about. We've thought briefly about it, but I heard the impact of it, Cornelius, just through hearing your cry out for that. And so, man, I want to let you know that you're contributing to this ministry from Alexandria, Louisiana. Thank God for you, my brother. And I want to pray for you with a prayer of thanksgiving. Are you getting those things? Is that what I'm hearing you?

>> Caroline: I've gotten, answered prayer through. Through Don and the rest of the family at that. At Yalls Church and everything. And I. I want to pray for you. You need security. So I'm praying for your security.

>> Don Hawkins: Yeah, anytime m. You do any public event like that, security is so important. I mean, we don't have to talk about why, because, I mean, we've all been reminded of the importance. And so, Cornelius, you be praying about that. Robert, you pray for Cornelius and his ongoing health issues.

>> Md Perkins: Yes. Dear Lord, we come to you right now and we acknowled is our great. I am the great creator of all. And, Lord, we thank you for your son, Jesus Christ, and what he has done in terms of salvation for our lives. Lord, I thank you for the fact that Cornelius is a believer. And, Lord, I thank you for the progress that he is being able to make now from getting the resources that he needs for the body. Lord, that, that. That someone went beyond, what was talked about in James 2, Lord, and he has what he needs for his body. So, in the name of Jesus, we are so excited that Cornelius has that. And Lord, help Cornelius to know. And know in his heart tonight that he contributed to a ministry of sharing the gospel by prompting an idea of some things we hadn't thought much about. So I thank you for my brother Cornelius. We ask that you continue to help his health to improve. Get him mobile and get him out doing the work that you've called him to be to do. And we thank you for the person that he is. And we thank you for how he has come in tonight and blessed our lives. In the name of Jesus, we pray.

>> Don Hawkins: Amen. And Cornelius, before we let you go, I want you to think about something. There will be people, I believe, who will come to faith in Jesus Christ as a result of Robert Duckworth preaching the gospel. Those three nights up in Cross at Arkansas. And, they will, perhaps some of them come to Christ through the live streaming. And you will meet those people in heaven when you go to heaven. When your time comes, I believe the Lord will introduce you and say, cornelius, you had a part in those people coming to Christ. Now, won't that be something, brother? I think we must have already lost Cornelius. But I'll tell you what, that's pretty exciting, Robert, to think about, don't you believe?

>> Md Perkins: Oh, I will never minimize any part of this. And I thank him. And I know Cornelius is probably still listening.

>> Don Hawkins: Ah.

>> Md Perkins: Every day I pray the full armor of God around me, and I want Cornelius to do that for me. From Ephesians 6 is to start with that belt of truth all the way through the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. Because I need that girding up in this season because those, those that spirit of doubt will come in, naysayers will come in, and we don't need those folks, in the way when we're trying to do what God has called us.

>> Don Hawkins: Amen.

Ms. McGee says her son in law preached in Arkansas for 45 years

So let's be sure and be praying for Dr. Robert Duckworth. Ms. McGee is our next caller. And, I'm not sure where you're calling from. You're on the air with us, though. Go ahead.

>> Caroline: Yes, I'm in Little Rock, Arkansas.

>> Don Hawkins: Well, praise God. See there? Arkansas has weighed in tonight. Go right ahead. You're on the air with us. Us?

>> Caroline: Well, around 1964, my son in law, who married my daughter, they were. He was the preacher of North Cross at Baptist Church. Just how many years both of their children were born in the El Dorado Hospital. And, Yeah. And today Today was his birthday. it would have been. He, he preached for 45 years. Years. And he went from there up to Harrison and from Harrison to Jacksonville, Arkansas. He preached 45 years in five different churches and he died about two months ago. But his name was David Talbert and they still have a lot of friends. the mayor there was one of their best friends. Oh, Scott McCormick.

>> Md Perkins: Oh yeah. And he was a great friend of my dad's, Ms. McGee. And he was just a wonderful, gentleman to, to have known. He's passed on since then?

>> Caroline: Yes, yes, he passed on.

>> Caroline: His wife died and about two years later he passed on. His wife and my daughter Dixie were close friends. Yeah, I've been with them many times. So it just was so shocking because today their families getting together and celebrating his birthday even though he's not here anymore.

>> Don Hawkins: Anymore.

>> Caroline: he preached at Biomeda Baptist Church in Jacksonville. And the strange thing about it, October 31st is when they got married.

>> Don Hawkins: How about that? Well now, Ms. McGee, I want to ask you a big, I'm going to ask you a big favor. You are, have connections with that North Cross at Arkansas area, the North Cross at that Baptist church there. your son in law preached there. And I know my mother in law. she was very active in a church in Shreveport, Louisiana and had the privilege of preaching there. My wife and I were married in that church. If you could help spread the word, about. And I'm going to, I'm going to give Ah, Dr. Duckworth your phone number and ask him to reach out to you with the particulars and if you'll help spread the word on this, we would be thrilled. And you may meet some people in heaven, heaven that came to Christ as a result of the part that you've had. just like our friend Cornelius from down in central Louisiana. So I think that'd be wonderful.

>> Caroline: Let me, I'm going to try to have my daughter to, to call and. Cause maybe we can all go down there.

>> Md Perkins: We would need that. And bring someone that you suspect, doesn't know Christ. But I also will need soldiers that are there whenever I share the gospel to be there, to have, consult with folks, to have conversations with them because they need to talk one on one and have prayer with them about a relationship with Christ. I would love that and would love to connect with you, Ms. McGee.

>> Don Hawkins: That would be wonderful. Heavenly Father, thank you for Ms. McGee. What a joy to hear from her tonight and to hear that her son in law had pastored that church. There in North Cross it. Lord, I pray that even as they celebrate his birthday, even though he's in heaven, that, she would be able to get some connection with many people from that area, Lord, that many of them might be able to. To go down and be a part of that crusade there in. In Cross it. And that, people would come to Christ because of that. Lord, I pray for this dear lady for health and strength and blessing on her daughter as well as she's lost her husband, who's now with the Lord, and for their children and family as well. Thank you for her calling us tonight. In Jesus name, amen.

>> Caroline: Amen.

>> Don Hawkins: Well, God, God bless. Thank you so much. What a joy. Robert, isn't that amazing, Arkansas?

>> Md Perkins: Yeah, I mean, it's like. It's like a family reunion. You're hearing from people from home. And I want that word to go out because I'm going to minister to my home. Yes, I say my hometown. But then I think about how I went to school in Hamburg, Arkansas. I did my elementary and junior high years in Hamburg, Arkansas, just neighboring there.

>> Don Hawkins: Right down the road, so I'll reach them.

>> Md Perkins: But I was like, well, that's a county. Well, now it's, an Arkansas revival.

>> Don Hawkins: Sure.

>> Md Perkins: I want to give something back to not only my hometown, my home county, but my home state.

>> Don Hawkins: Now you think about what's happened tonight from Alexandria, Louisiana.

>> Md Perkins: that's right.

>> Don Hawkins: You draw a line straight up to Little Rock, Arkansas, and literally cross it is almost right on the line and people are listening all in between.

Mrs. Minor in Alabama going to have ear surgery next weekend

Have a prayer request from a dear lady in Alabama, my home state, Mrs. Minor. She's listening over American Family Radio there. And she's 90 years old and she's going to have surgery. And I want to ask you to pray for her. And I also want to ask you to pray for. For my translator in India, Sarita. She is going to have surgery probably next weekend on her ear. She's having some hearing issues. If you would pray for, this dear lady, Mrs. Minor, and for Sarita, lead us in prayer.

>> Md Perkins: Gracious Lord, we just thank you because you are also not only the great. I am. You are the great physician. And Lord, you know our bodies because you created them, you designed those. And Lord, we will know, not, fall short in understanding that and believing that. So, Lord, right now we just want to pray for Mrs. Minor in Alabama. Lord, she didn't, We don't know the specifics of her surgery. But you do. And you know exactly what to do when those surgeons go in that room. So care for her. Care for her body from anesthesia to recovery. Watch over her and give her that rehab that she needs so that she can come out of this a new person and she can still be used for you in the kingdom of God. And, Lord, we want to pray for Sarita, Lord, who is having some issues with her hearing. And so, Lord, we pray for the surgeons in that capacity. Don's dear friend and translator, when he goes to India, get her those resources that she needs. We're praying earnestly for those. If it be your will that she has what she needs so that she can help, don't serve. When he goes to India, In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

>> Don Hawkins: Amen.

Robert Donelson: Four words that are key to the gospel

And I want to take just a minute. We have a minute and a half. Four words that are key to the gospel. Something about sin. Romans 3:23. We've all sinned and come short of the glory of God. Something about a penalty. Sin's penalty. Wages of sin is death. Romans 6:23. Sin's penalty has been paid. Romans 5:8. God proved his love toward us, us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Sins. Penalty paid. So trust John 3:16. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son the one name, the name of Jesus, that whoever believes in him, trust in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life. Robert, I know that's the message you'll be preaching in Crosset, Arkansas, on those dates coming up. The last two days of October, the first day of November, and I want to ask folks to be praying for you. Thanks for being on the show and sharing your vision tonight.

>> Md Perkins: My brother Don, I'm so glad to be here, and thank you so much for helping me promote what God has called us, to do.

>> Don Hawkins: And Dallas Theological Seminary is the place to check out if you want to be trained to preach the gospel clearly to proclaim God's word. Visit courses DTS Edu for some of those free online courses. And, check out DTS Edu and enroll there. Good night from Encouragement Live.