Dial - Season 2 - Episode 82

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Dial - Season 2 - Episode 82

“I’m still going to die!”
“No, you’re not, boy!” the Holy Man said sharply. “I can’t force you, yes, but few have been given the privilege of choice before death! Use your heart! You have a choice! No one can force you to accept the ways of the Lord! It has to be an individual choice as you say, Yao. And it has to be genuine. Do that, and you’ll be free from all curses, and armoured by all the good graces of God. It is absolutely up to you!”

“And until it happens I can’t leave here?” I asked numbly.

“If you leave here, unrepented and not baptized, you’ll die,” he said softly. “But if you find true repentance, even right now, I’ll baptize you, and you’ll be free. The choice is yours. I’ll guide you, of course.”
“But Adobea is waiting for me in the town before Wowo!” I cried earnestly. “I have to go and see her, and let her know what is going on, please! She thinks I’m here to marry Dede. If I don’t get word to her she might think I married Dede, and she might move on with her life! Please, let me go and tell her the situation.”

“There’s no bargaining with truth, Yao,” the Holy Man said sadly. “It is your life. If you descend from this mountain without true repentance, you’ll die, because death is still hanging over you. You don’t have much time, Yao. Abena Adobea and marriage will not benefit you if you die a horrible death within the next few years.”
“But I’ll lose her!” I cried desperately. “Please, I beg of you! If I can’t go, just get word to her for me, please!”
His eyes became hard then, and his hand sq££zed my shoulder quite hard.
“You don’t know what you’re playing around with!” he said in a fierce voice. “I am telling you things of the spirit, and all you can think about are things of the flesh! Wise up, young man! Theirs is death on you! Have you ever heard of Hezekiah?”
I shook my head numbly.