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Unto One of the Least of These My Brethren - Part 5

LONNIE: Welcome Don once again.

DON: Boy the week really goes by quick.

LONNIE: Don we are so pleased to able to talk to you because you are out there on the cutting edge making a difference. Jesus said through the apostle Paul in Hebrews 13:3, remember the prisoners as if chained with them. There was one prisoner that I was supposed to see with you but I didn’t get to go and we’re talking about Don Hawkins. Why is this text important to someone like Don?

DON: Without that connection, Don probably wouldn’t have dug into the word like he did. Let me read the answer of that from Don, The wages of sin is death (the death sentence) but the freedom of God’s gift is eternal life through Jesus Christ Romans 6:23. Confess your sins and trust Jesus for eternity, not taking any thought of this life or for the things thereafter. Don knew that when he accepted Christ he accepted the Christian world, but the Christian world did not accept him. He’s on death row, his execution date has been set, and a whole bunch of miracle things are starting to happen, and this is pre-broadcasted, and in the future we’ll either put Don died, or Don got a change. But this a man that if I had to pick anybody in the 25 years of my prison ministry, I have never seen anybody change as much as this guy has. From a hardcore convict, Arian brotherhood gang member cut your throat in a second, a murderer, rapist, thief to a gentle giant. He is a lion who has become a lamb, and it’s a joy to know him. Don lived a life of crime. He came from a broken family and he set out to destroy himself because he didn’t care. He wanted to live fast die young and leave a good looking corpse, and that’s why I related to him so much. When he originally wrote to me I threw his letter away because this guy was terrible and I’m a Christian, but then I remembered the prisoner as if chained with him and so I grabbed his letter and I started writing him. He took the Voice of Prophecy Bible Studies, and he became a Christian. He was able to quite worrying about dying, and he wanted to know what he could do for the Lord as long as he was here. At his clemency hearing he has 40 letters from death row convicts who Don has ministered to and led to Christ, 2 of them are dead.

LONNIE: And the letters are to him or to the state?

DON: To the state saying don’t kill this man leave him here with us.

LONNIE: How about the family that was affected by him, are they in support of him not dying?

DON: Yes! They said that they saw the change in Don, and the sister…Don kidnapped a women and her little daughters for ransom period! And the next day he let the two little girls go so they weren’t harmed at all. He took the women and tied her to a tree and then went to make the ransom demand. The woman somehow got loose from the tree but she was still tied, and she tried to roll away and she rolled into a river. She rolled into the river as Don got back. Don dove into the river to try and save her not kill her, but when the moment came when he knew that either he was going to die or that she was he let go and saved himself. So was it pre mediated murder? Does he deserve to die for it? People are getting out of prison that really killed people, no death sentence. Don is not the man that he was, and that is why I love being acquainted with him. Those of you who are listening that are not Christians and say I’ve done too much stuff to be a Christian remembers that Jesus sees us not as we were, not as we are, but as we can be through him.

LONNE: Amen! Because that is your testimony as well.

DON: Yes! If it weren’t for Christ I would be sharing a death row cell with Don, or I would have been dead. But back to what I was saying earlier, the sister of the woman that died has contacted the governor and has told them that she doesn’t want Don executed. The two little girls who he let go, he killed their mother, but they don’t want him executed. The state has a policy 40 minutes clemency, that’s it. Don gets 20 minutes and the other half is for family friends and so forth. But God is on our side and Don has been granted a whole day of clemency. Don said you know if they do tie me down to that gurney and I close my eyes all you will see is a tattooed body, but when we meet again in heaven I’ll have a brand new body, and I’ll be a new child again, and I can’t wait because I won’t be far from Jesus. The prison system of America today is horrible, please call your Chaplin to see what you can do to help and Jesus is the only thing that can change the prison system of America, we have 2 million people locked up.

LONNIE: What would you say to those who may not be in prison physically but mentally?

DON: Remember that Jesus is just a prayer away, and a new life for all of you is only a whisper away, remember that when your life seems to not quite add up and your at the end of your rope.