The Apostle Page #2

I know you died and gone home to heaven.

I hope you hear me. You be good.

I'll call you tonight.

I can't take you with me, OK?

All right? Yeah, Mama?

Hug St Peter's neck for me.

Bye, Mama. Kiss an angel for me.

I'm going to hit the road.

Got to go to work.

Jessie, I'll call, see if you want to fly

to Little Rock, drive back with me and Joe.

I have my Women's Aglow meetings, so...

Maybe. You call me?

- See you in a few weeks. Horace, bless you.

- Bye, Sonny. Have a good trip.

Learn the books of the Bible.

Let me hear them.

- You!

- No, you say them.

Say it! Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus,

Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua... You!

Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers,

Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth,

First and Second Samuel, First and Second

Kings, First and Second Chronicles,

Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Psalms,

Proverbs et cetera, et cetera.

And on into Revelation.

I may be on the Devil's hit list,

but I'm on Jesus' mailing list.

"Yea, though I walk through the valley

of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil

for thou art with me. "

Why do I say this?

Because we got Holy Ghost power here today.

I got a sea of his son's blood

wrapped around my body.

Can everybody say

we got Holy Ghost power in this tent?

Say it again! Holy Ghost power!

- Holy Ghost power! I said Holy Ghost power!

- Yeah!

Power to change you

when you don't want to be changed.

Power to remake you

when you don't want to be remade.

Shout hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Hallelujah!

Hallelujah!

We got Holy Ghost power!

Hallelujah!

The Devil thought he had the keys.

But Jesus went to hell.

He made a house-call on the Devil.

He took him off of his throne.

Did a backflip over the Devil

and stripped him of all of his power.

And came out of hell

with the keys to the kingdom.

We got the keys to the kingdom!

We got the keys to the kingdom!

- Hallelujah!

- How about it, sister?

Come on and shout "Holy Ghost"!

Shout "Holy Ghost"!

Holy Ghost! The Holy Ghost!

Shout "Holy Ghost"!

d I have decided to follow Jesus

I have decided to follow Jesus

d I have decided to follow Jesus

d No turn around, no turn around d

- Who's the King of kings?

- Jesus.

- Before Abraham was, was who?

- Jesus!

- Who's the first and the last?

- Jesus.

- I'm on the Devil's hit list. Who's by my side?

- Jesus.

- Who's the lily of the valley?

- Jesus.

Yea, though I walk through the valley

of the shadow of death, who is by my side?

- Jesus.

- Come on and say "Jesus", beloved.

- Jesus.

- If I wake up in hell, who do I look up to?

- Jesus.

- Shout it loud and say "Jesus"!

- Jesus.

- I can't hear you.

- Jesus!

- Jesus!

- Jesus!

- Jesus!

His name is Jesus.

Jesus.

A handclap for Jesus. Come on,

everyone. Give me a handclap.

Yea, though I walk...

...through the valley of the shadow of death,

I will fear no evil...

...because I'm walking with Jesus.

I walk with Jesus. I talk with Jesus.

I walk with Jesus. I shout with Jesus.

I walk with Jesus. I stomp with Jesus.

We stomp all together.

We stomp on the Diablo.

I want to walk with you and stomp with you.

Yes. Thank you.

Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you, Lord.

Thank you. Oh, yes.

Come on, Joe! Joe!

- Joe, come on. We've got to go now.

- What's going on?

OK. I'm coming.

Let me in. You trying to kill me?

What's going on? We're going the wrong way.

If someone's in my bed that's supposed

to be there, we'll be back in 24 hours.

- You mean Jessie?

- Yeah. My sweet wife Jessie. You bet.

I'll call you in the morning.

Jessie?

Jess.

...are charged by almighty God

to show care and love for each other.

This is just part of our responsibility.

God has put us in a position of legal...

Sonny.

What's that?

Go back to sleep.

OK.

- It was nothing.

- Nothing.

"Thou shalt not kill. "

- Sonny! Dammit, Sonny!

- No!

Saint Paul said...

I appreciate your friendship, Joe.

I really, really do.

Sit tight in case I start

choking this woman to death.

If I do, you'll know it. You hear?

What are we going to do about this, Jessie?

Give me some kind of answer. What?

I just want out of all this, that's all.

- Out of what? This marriage?

- Yeah.

I have to think about that.

- There's not a lot for you to think about.

- Yeah?

I want to get on with it.

And keep your hands where they are.

- Don't.

- What?

What do you want to get on with?

- My life.

- That's it.

Well, I'll tell you something.

I might make a little noise about all this,

you know that.

- I imagine you will.

- Nobody better mess with my children.

Especially any puny-assed youth minister,

you hear me?

Nobody will.

I assure you of that.

I wouldn't make too much over this,

if I were you.

I know as much about what you have done

as you think I do, you know that.

I guess I do.

- Yeah.

- What?

No. It's OK. Hold on.

It's OK, baby.

Would you get down on your knees with me

just this last time?

- Come on, Jessie.

- Why, Sonny?

I want...

I want us to pray together.

For understanding and possible future

reconciliation for us and our son and daughter.

- No. It's not the time.

- Jessie, come on.

- I don't want to pray with you today.

- Next week?

No.

All right.

We'll see.

Boy, you're something.

We've never had a problem

we haven't been able to solve.

- He's given me my answers.

- Who's given you answers?

- The Lord.

- Our Lord has?

- Yeah.

- Are you sure it was the Lord talking?

We've prayed since before we were married.

My knees are worn out over us.

I don't want to live like this any more.

Because of my wandering eye

and wicked ways?

It goes beyond just that.

I have a wandering bug in me

because I love to evangelise.

But I love my wife and family.

Always have, always will. I love my wife.

I love my beauties, my babies.

Look at me, Jessie.

You know I love you. You know that.

Yeah. I do.

Yeah.

Don't.

God bless you. You're going to need it.

I'm with you all the way.

If you hadn't led me to the Lord,

who knows what jail I'd be in?

- I ain't going to let you forget that.

- I appreciate it.

- You hear me now, don't you?

- What do we have here, Joe?

- Morning.

- Hi, Sonny.

What's going on?

Whose funeral have we got to attend to?

- Don't tell me it's mine.

- I don't know how to begin this.

Open your mouth and get to it.

That's the best way.

Seems that Sister Jessie

don't want you among us any more.

She's gonna take the church from you through

proper channels. That's why we're here.

How come I knew that?

How come I knew that? Let me sit down.

I tell you...

How come I knew that?

I was just there. You're all here.

I was just there and you're here already.

She wanted it to come from

some portion of the church body.

She did? I see.

- She can't do that. You know she can't.

- She can.

I imagine she can do about anything

she wants. Can't she, Brother Edwards?

- It all happened too quick.

- You're telling me.

It seems that a proper church vote was taken

according to the church by-laws

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