1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:02,440 Oh. 2 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:08,080 So, Mario, are you spiritual? Yes. 3 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:10,160 What do you mean by that? 4 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:13,520 The way I grew up, 5 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:17,440 my heart was in my neighborhood. 6 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:20,440 But my love, 7 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:24,200 I've always been loyal to love, I've always known that, but it deceived me. 8 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:26,120 I confuse the two. 9 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:31,400 If you confuse the two, they let you down and I feel you have to pick yourself up. 10 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:34,240 Yourself up. You can't pick yourself up. 11 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:36,720 Is that what you mean by spiritual self-improvement? 12 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:38,960 Yes. Talking about God 13 00:00:39,160 --> 00:00:40,840 self-improvement. That's what I believe in. 14 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:44,200 I believe in all religions have a universal meaning. 15 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:45,680 I believe in the power of the universe. 16 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:48,760 I believe that we're all just human and we're all here 17 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:51,560 to spread love. And that's all I got to do. 18 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:53,200 So 19 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:56,680 do you think God created everything? 20 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:00,120 Do you think evolution created everything? 21 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:03,640 We can never know ever. You may not believe. 22 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:06,440 I know, I know you can know within that, Mario. 23 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:10,000 I know you don't know. Yeah. 24 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:11,800 Can I say we can never know? 25 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,480 That's limiting your knowledge 26 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:17,000 to everything about how amazing life is. 27 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,240 I mean, look at the blueness of the sky and the sun. 28 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:20,280 Everything about the sun. 29 00:01:20,410 --> 00:01:22,360 How incredible is how incredible it is. 30 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:26,080 It's 93 million miles away and it's just warm enough to write me. 31 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:27,160 It made us any closer. 32 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:28,320 We're all dead further away. 33 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:29,800 We're all dead. 34 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,320 If I think about how amazing that is, I do. 35 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:33,600 How did they get there? 36 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:35,280 I had to learn it myself. 37 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:37,000 I had to go within 38 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:38,800 and nobody can teach it for you. 39 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:43,080 You have to go in and you can unlock the secrets to the universe. 40 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:46,360 If your loyalty lies in the love for yourself, that's it. 41 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:49,000 Love yourself. I do love God. 42 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:51,120 I love God. 43 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:54,600 But in my mind, God is the entire universe. 44 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:58,160 So I left the entire cold pantheism 45 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:00,200 spring, the painter and the painting. 46 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:01,640 You don't love the painting. 47 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:04,720 You love the painter because he's the genius that created the painting. 48 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:06,480 And so if you love creation, 49 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:09,960 you're setting your affection on the creation rather than the creator. 50 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:13,520 And that's called inordinate affection Sorona of affections. 51 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:16,920 If your mom gave you a gift and you love the gift more than you love your mother, 52 00:02:16,920 --> 00:02:18,600 there's something wrong you should be saying. 53 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:20,040 Hey, Mom, thanks for this car. 54 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:23,240 I'm grateful to you, not to the car. 55 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:26,040 Grateful to you for the gift. 56 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:27,920 Makes sense. 57 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:31,120 I personally know who I am and why I'm here. 58 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:34,360 I found my purpose from within. 59 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:35,640 I know that to be true. 60 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:39,760 I've never lost that my entire life I've been the same person. 61 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:41,440 You need love. 62 00:02:41,640 --> 00:02:43,960 You can't be a man without love. 63 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:48,320 You have to separate yourself from love in order to find that for yourself. 64 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:50,560 Nobody else can do it for you. That's the point. 65 00:02:50,650 --> 00:02:52,720 You trust yourself? I do. 66 00:02:52,920 --> 00:02:55,400 How many? Let me ask you a question. 67 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:57,840 Spell the word shop 68 00:02:58,240 --> 00:02:59,440 as a shop. 69 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:01,600 What do you do when you come to a green light? 70 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:08,640 You go to work Bellwood silk as I ok, what a cows drink. 71 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:12,400 Am I ok? No, I drink water. 72 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:15,800 I never trust yourself because we are easily deceived. 73 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:18,280 The Bible says he who trusts his own heart is a fool. 74 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:20,600 A lot of people are dead because they trusted their own heart. 75 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:21,400 They made judgments. 76 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:24,160 I can beat that track and overtake this car and they couldn't. 77 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:27,520 Wrong judgment. Let me ask another question. 78 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:31,320 You said your concept of God is that he is the universe. 79 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:32,040 Yeah. 80 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:35,400 Do you think God is happy with you or angry at you? 81 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:39,360 Depending on what you do, God will love you for it. 82 00:03:39,550 --> 00:03:41,400 Either way, that's what I believe in. 83 00:03:41,590 --> 00:03:42,840 So how you doing morally? 84 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:45,960 I mean, you stay true to yourself. God will love you. 85 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:47,640 It doesn't matter what you do as long as 86 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:50,040 you know in your heart you're doing it for the right reason. 87 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:50,880 Love. 88 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:53,560 You have nothing to worry about in this world whatsoever. 89 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:55,440 It's called faith. Let's see how you do. 90 00:03:55,540 --> 00:03:57,960 Do you think you're a good person? Yes. 91 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:00,400 How many lies have you told in your life? 92 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:01,800 I've lost count. 93 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,920 What do you call someone who's told lies a liar. 94 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:06,520 So you've blown that one. 95 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:08,320 You have stolen something even of yours. 96 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:10,840 Even a it's small. Yeah. 97 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:14,920 You call someone who steals a liar thief. 98 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:19,200 If you deny that you lie still cheat and deceit, you become those things. 99 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:24,240 And that's what you have to understand is human, is that you can't lose yourself 100 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:28,440 in yourself because that's the double edged sword of love. 101 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:29,800 It's out there. 102 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:32,520 You just got to find it for yourself in order to truly know what it is. 103 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:35,240 And I just want to push that to everybody 104 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:38,440 that's now you saying that you found yourself 105 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:40,320 what a mankind's origins. 106 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:41,680 Where do we come from? 107 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:42,920 Women. 108 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:44,280 But I mean originally. 109 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:45,600 I don't mean from your mother. 110 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:47,120 I mean, where did what 111 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:51,680 what's the origin of humanity, authenticity and love the origin? 112 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:54,000 Where do we come from? What was in the beginning? 113 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:57,320 Man and woman. Yeah, but for men and women who created 114 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:02,080 man and woman a higher power, who was their God? 115 00:05:02,280 --> 00:05:05,440 Why do we exist as human beingsto love? 116 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:09,840 And we're. Where are you going when you die? 117 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:11,560 Whatever you did here? 118 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:13,680 It depends. It's true. 119 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:14,920 Now the third commandment. 120 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:16,400 You should not take God's name in vain. 121 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,000 If you ever use God's name in vain, 122 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:21,720 would you use your mother's name as a cuss word? 123 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:23,040 Ever. Never. 124 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:25,600 Because you honor her, but you haven't loved and honored God. 125 00:05:25,610 --> 00:05:27,360 You've used his name as a falsehood 126 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:29,640 to express disgust, which is called blasphemy. 127 00:05:29,840 --> 00:05:32,960 So serious it's punishable by death in the Old Testament. 128 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:35,080 Appreciate your honesty 129 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:37,560 and your and your patience with me. 130 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:41,280 Now, Jesus said if you look at a woman and last for her, commit adultery with her 131 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:44,520 in your heart. Have you ever looked at a woman with last? 132 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:46,120 Yes, I'm a man. 133 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:47,560 Had sex before marriage. 134 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:49,480 Yes, I'm a man. So marry. 135 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:51,240 I'm not judging you. You judge yourself. 136 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:53,480 But you've told me you're a lying, thieving, blasphemous, 137 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:57,360 fornicating adulterer at heart and you have to face God on judgment day. 138 00:05:57,360 --> 00:05:59,320 If he judges you by the Ten Commandments 139 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:03,040 of looked at four, you're going to be innocent or guilty, 140 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:05,960 guilty, heaven or hell,hell. 141 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:09,120 Does that concern you 142 00:06:09,840 --> 00:06:13,000 deep down here horrifies me. We've just met. 143 00:06:13,090 --> 00:06:14,680 I love you. I care about you. 144 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:18,000 The thought of you going to hell just breaks my heart. 145 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:20,760 Do you know what death actually is? 146 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:22,960 According to the Bible enlightenment? 147 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:27,160 Well, no, it's wages says the wages of sin is death. 148 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:30,960 God's given you death as wages for your son is paying you in death. 149 00:06:31,060 --> 00:06:32,960 He's given you capital punishment like 150 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:37,360 a judge looks at a heinous criminal, is rape three girls and then murdered them. 151 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:39,960 He says you've earned the death sentence. This is your wages. 152 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:41,680 This is what's due to you. 153 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:44,600 And sin is so serious to God, 154 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:48,320 Maria, that he's given you capital punishment, 155 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:51,240 lying, thieving, blasphemous, fornicating adulterer at heart. 156 00:06:51,390 --> 00:06:52,040 Now, tell me, 157 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:55,400 what did God do for guilty sinners so we wouldn't have to go to hell? 158 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:57,040 Do you remember 159 00:06:59,920 --> 00:07:02,320 he came up with the idea 160 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:07,880 that depending on what you do here, you're either good or bad and that's it. 161 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:10,680 You just got to stick to it and have the faith in that. 162 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:12,880 And that's not what he did. 163 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:15,840 Jesus suffered and died on the cross for the sin of the world. 164 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:18,160 The Ten Commandments are called the moral law. 165 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:20,160 You and I broke the law. 166 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:22,280 Jesus paid the fine. 167 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:25,120 That's what happened on that cross. 168 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:28,440 Mario, if you're in court and someone pays your fine, a judge can let you go. 169 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:29,600 Did you know that? 170 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:32,160 You can say, Mario, there's a stack of speeding fines here. 171 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:34,800 This is deadly serious, but someone's paid him. 172 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:37,240 You're free to go and he can do that, which is legal and right. 173 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:39,880 And just and God loves you so much. 174 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:41,400 He became a human being, 175 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:44,840 suffered and died on the cross to take the punishment for the sin of the world. 176 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:46,760 That means you don't have to end up in hell. 177 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:51,160 God can legally forgive you sentence because he's the lover of your soul. 178 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:53,800 And then Jesus rose from the dead and defeated death. 179 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:58,120 Mario, if you give up the battle and just say, God, I'm a rebel and you repent 180 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:01,040 and trust in Christ, God will forgive every cent you've ever 181 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:04,000 committed and grant everlasting life as a free gift. 182 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:05,240 Do you believe what I'm saying? 183 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:07,200 Yes, it's the gospel truth. 184 00:08:07,340 --> 00:08:08,440 I wouldn't lie to you. 185 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:10,760 Are you ready to repent and trust in Christ? 186 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:12,880 Yes, I pray with you. 187 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:15,080 Sure, although I pray for Mario. 188 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:16,720 Think we met today. Thank you. 189 00:08:16,750 --> 00:08:18,120 We met today. I pray today. 190 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:21,680 He'll truly repent and trust in Jesus and have a since 191 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:26,960 forgiven and a second pass from death to life in Jesus name we pray. 192 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:29,120 Amen. You have a Bible. 193 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:30,160 I 194 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:31,480 know. 195 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:35,360 I'm, I'm going to give you some literature that you know while you're weeping. 196 00:08:35,560 --> 00:08:36,960 Any idea 197 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:40,440 because I have sinned as a man. 198 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:42,600 OK, that's called contrition. 199 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:44,560 And the Bible says godly sorrow. 200 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:46,920 Being sorry for your sins works repentance. 201 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:51,000 So I trust today that God's brought conviction of sin to you. 202 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:54,280 And, you know, you have sinned against God and you'll understand that 203 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:57,240 God can forgive you and grant you everlasting life as a free gift. 204 00:08:57,240 --> 00:08:58,520 I've got some literature for you. 205 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:01,640 OK, Mario, thank you for talking to me. 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