Unfathomable Mercy: A full length TV drama series 35

Unfathomable Mercy: A full length TV drama series 35
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By MarkAnthony Nze

97. EXT. MR. KADIRI’S RES. NIGHT.

COLLINS arrives in his CAR with PRISCA at their GATE, keeps pressing the HORN and incessantly making a NOISE with it before ADAMU wakes up and comes outside to meet them.

 ADAMU

Oga Collins, abegi, me no fit open am for gate for you.

 COLLINS

My friend, open this gate immediately.

 ADAMU

No be me talk am na oga Land-lord na em talk am so.

 COLLINS

Adamu, you and the Land-Lord are crazy, come on! Get out of my way.

Starts struggling with him and eventually beats him up and pushes the guard away and drives in

 

98. INT.CHURCH.DAY.

At the LATTER BLESSINGS ASSEMBLY, the TRIO of KEN, DAN and RAY sit on the THIRD ROW and appear to be listening to the preaching of PASTOR DAVID; beside them are NGOZI and RITA.

 PASTOR DAVID

Brethren, this morning, I have a short and direct message for somebody here but please before I start, let’s quickly open our bibles to the book of Romans 9:15-16. It reads and I quote; “for he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

So, then it is not of him that wills nor of him that runs but of God that shows mercy”

My message, this morning is entitled ‘Divine Mercy’ and how many of us here believe that by strength shall no man prevail but by God’s mercy? Let me see your hands up. Some hands are not raised up, that means some of us are not convinced about that yet, not to worry, I will tell a brief but concise story right now to illustrate this clearly.

Some seventeen years ago, when I graduated from the university and was working in Abuja as a surveyor in the Federal Ministry of Lands and Mines; the salary was okay but I wanted something bigger so with the help of my uncle in Port Harcourt, who was a big shot in an oil company there, I got a new job offer as a senior surveyor. The Sunday I was meant to leave for the Garden city to assume my new position on Monday, my friend and former course mate, that was already a senior lecturer in the department of Geo- physics came to visit me in my apartment purposely to preach to me.

 

DISSOLVE

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NNAMDI

David, I want you to know that any life without Christ is useless, it’s like a train on a track of destruction. For HE is the way, the truth and the light; don’t let the devil deceive you with the vain things of this world that will certainly pass away one day.

The devil has nothing to offer you that’s why the bible tells us in the book of John 10:10 “that he has come to steal, kill and destroy but HE (CHRIST) has come that we may have life and have it more abundantly. Nothing on earth gives satisfaction except knowing that you have a right standing before God. I ….

 DAVID
Nnamdi, please stop this! For God’s sake you’re now a senior lecturer with a bigger remuneration package and authority on campus; you have it all now; the money, girls, in fact everything, why are you doing this to yourself?

 NNAMDI
I’m not doing anything wrong or regrettable, in fact since I gave my life to Christ I have this unsurpassable joy in me that I have never known before and I want you to do the same, you can never tell what might happen next.

 

DAVID
Looks at his time

Ah! Nnamdi; I have to run now. I have a flight to catch.

NNAMDI

All right, may God be with you.

The camera crawls at Pastor David now with a close-up shot.

PASTOR DAVID

When I got to the airport the aircraft was already taxiing off to the tarmac; I felt so bad, right there I felt like going to strangle Nnamdi for coming to waste my time with his ‘useless sermon’ that was what I thought then about gospel. Angrily I returned home and the following morning by first flight I was in Port Harcourt; I went straight to my uncle’s office, when I got there, he was weeping and people there were consoling him.

I was petrified and astonished at the same time seeing them weeping. When the eventually saw me they couldn’t believe it initially that I wasn’t a ghost.

 

DISSOLVE

…David’s uncle holds him in warm embrace and tears of joy roll down his cheeks and everybody in the office stand in amazement watching them.

 FRANCIS
David, thank God, you survived the crash.

 DAVID

Uncle Francis, I’m not aware of any crash. I boarded an Aero contractor air plane bound for Port Harcourt this morning from Abuja after missing Lisoso flight yesterday.

 FRANCIS
Thank God, you didn’t, that plane crashed to smithereens yesterday’s evening not even one person survived.

 DAVID
Good God!

 PASTOR DAVID
The camera cuts away to Pastor David at the pulpit first with a long shot then a close-up shot.

In that air craft there were over one hundred professionals, de crème la crème of the society, all crashed but miraculously, God saved me by making sure I missed that flight. That day, I got the news, I wept uncontrollably and totally surrendered my life to Christ after remembering what my friend, Nnamdi told me.

Brethren, death, I agree might not be the greatest tragedy in life but certainly is a disaster to die when you know you can’t make heaven; if you don’t have a good relationship with God almighty, your creator, how can you be part of his kingdom? And the only way to do that is to surrender your life to Christ; he’s the only one that can give you eternal life. You may say tomorrow, you’ll do it but it may be late then, you may not live to see it come, you may not have the second chance to do it, please brothers and sisters, now is the time, today is the day of salvation, I beg of you to lay your life before him right now .

If you’re tired of your sins, you’re fed up with your dirty habits but you can’t help yourself, please, I plead with you by the mercies of God to come to the altar now and surrender all to Christ, he’s the only one that can change your situation and give you a new beginning.

Please, don’t be shy, the angels are waiting to receive you, the king of glory is here, right now too to usher you into an everlasting life.

Dan stands up and walks to the altar to the amazement of his friends, Prisca follows suit.

SONG:  “I surrender all”

Unto Jesus,

I surrender all!

Unto thee mine blessed

And Savior, I surrender all!

Pastor David lays his hand on them praying as they kneel before the altar and the melodious hymn wafting softly from the speakers.
…to be continued.

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