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So, Mario, are you spiritual? Yes.
What do you mean by that?
The way I grew up,
my heart was in my neighborhood.
But my love,
I've always been loyal to love, I've always known that, but it deceived me.
I confuse the two.
If you confuse the two, they let you down and I feel you have to pick yourself up.
Yourself up. You can't pick yourself up.
Is that what you mean by spiritual self-improvement?
Yes. Talking about God
self-improvement. That's what I believe in.
I believe in all religions have a universal meaning.
I believe in the power of the universe.
I believe that we're all just human and we're all here
to spread love. And that's all I got to do.
So
do you think God created everything?
Do you think evolution created everything?
We can never know ever. You may not believe.
I know, I know you can know within that, Mario.
I know you don't know. Yeah.
Can I say we can never know?
That's limiting your knowledge
to everything about how amazing life is.
I mean, look at the blueness of the sky and the sun.
Everything about the sun.
How incredible is how incredible it is.
It's 93 million miles away and it's just warm enough to write me.
It made us any closer.
We're all dead further away.
We're all dead.
If I think about how amazing that is, I do.
How did they get there?
I had to learn it myself.
I had to go within
and nobody can teach it for you.
You have to go in and you can unlock the secrets to the universe.
If your loyalty lies in the love for yourself, that's it.
Love yourself. I do love God.
I love God.
But in my mind, God is the entire universe.
So I left the entire cold pantheism
spring, the painter and the painting.
You don't love the painting.
You love the painter because he's the genius that created the painting.
And so if you love creation,
you're setting your affection on the creation rather than the creator.
And that's called inordinate affection Sorona of affections.
If your mom gave you a gift and you love the gift more than you love your mother,
there's something wrong you should be saying.
Hey, Mom, thanks for this car.
I'm grateful to you, not to the car.
Grateful to you for the gift.
Makes sense.
I personally know who I am and why I'm here.
I found my purpose from within.
I know that to be true.
I've never lost that my entire life I've been the same person.
You need love.
You can't be a man without love.
You have to separate yourself from love in order to find that for yourself.
Nobody else can do it for you. That's the point.
You trust yourself? I do.
How many? Let me ask you a question.
Spell the word shop
as a shop.
What do you do when you come to a green light?
You go to work Bellwood silk as I ok, what a cows drink.
Am I ok? No, I drink water.
I never trust yourself because we are easily deceived.
The Bible says he who trusts his own heart is a fool.
A lot of people are dead because they trusted their own heart.
They made judgments.
I can beat that track and overtake this car and they couldn't.
Wrong judgment. Let me ask another question.
You said your concept of God is that he is the universe.
Yeah.
Do you think God is happy with you or angry at you?
Depending on what you do, God will love you for it.
Either way, that's what I believe in.
So how you doing morally?
I mean, you stay true to yourself. God will love you.
It doesn't matter what you do as long as
you know in your heart you're doing it for the right reason.
Love.
You have nothing to worry about in this world whatsoever.
It's called faith. Let's see how you do.
Do you think you're a good person? Yes.
How many lies have you told in your life?
I've lost count.
What do you call someone who's told lies a liar.
So you've blown that one.
You have stolen something even of yours.
Even a it's small. Yeah.
You call someone who steals a liar thief.
If you deny that you lie still cheat and deceit, you become those things.
And that's what you have to understand is human, is that you can't lose yourself
in yourself because that's the double edged sword of love.
It's out there.
You just got to find it for yourself in order to truly know what it is.
And I just want to push that to everybody
that's now you saying that you found yourself
what a mankind's origins.
Where do we come from?
Women.
But I mean originally.
I don't mean from your mother.
I mean, where did what
what's the origin of humanity, authenticity and love the origin?
Where do we come from? What was in the beginning?
Man and woman. Yeah, but for men and women who created
man and woman a higher power, who was their God?
Why do we exist as human beingsto love?
And we're. Where are you going when you die?
Whatever you did here?
It depends. It's true.
Now the third commandment.
You should not take God's name in vain.
If you ever use God's name in vain,
would you use your mother's name as a cuss word?
Ever. Never.
Because you honor her, but you haven't loved and honored God.
You've used his name as a falsehood
to express disgust, which is called blasphemy.
So serious it's punishable by death in the Old Testament.
Appreciate your honesty
and your and your patience with me.
Now, Jesus said if you look at a woman and last for her, commit adultery with her
in your heart. Have you ever looked at a woman with last?
Yes, I'm a man.
Had sex before marriage.
Yes, I'm a man. So marry.
I'm not judging you. You judge yourself.
But you've told me you're a lying, thieving, blasphemous,
fornicating adulterer at heart and you have to face God on judgment day.
If he judges you by the Ten Commandments
of looked at four, you're going to be innocent or guilty,
guilty, heaven or hell,hell.
Does that concern you
deep down here horrifies me. We've just met.
I love you. I care about you.
The thought of you going to hell just breaks my heart.
Do you know what death actually is?
According to the Bible enlightenment?
Well, no, it's wages says the wages of sin is death.
God's given you death as wages for your son is paying you in death.
He's given you capital punishment like
a judge looks at a heinous criminal, is rape three girls and then murdered them.
He says you've earned the death sentence. This is your wages.
This is what's due to you.
And sin is so serious to God,
Maria, that he's given you capital punishment,
lying, thieving, blasphemous, fornicating adulterer at heart.
Now, tell me,
what did God do for guilty sinners so we wouldn't have to go to hell?
Do you remember
he came up with the idea
that depending on what you do here, you're either good or bad and that's it.
You just got to stick to it and have the faith in that.
And that's not what he did.
Jesus suffered and died on the cross for the sin of the world.
The Ten Commandments are called the moral law.
You and I broke the law.
Jesus paid the fine.
That's what happened on that cross.
Mario, if you're in court and someone pays your fine, a judge can let you go.
Did you know that?
You can say, Mario, there's a stack of speeding fines here.
This is deadly serious, but someone's paid him.
You're free to go and he can do that, which is legal and right.
And just and God loves you so much.
He became a human being,
suffered and died on the cross to take the punishment for the sin of the world.
That means you don't have to end up in hell.
God can legally forgive you sentence because he's the lover of your soul.
And then Jesus rose from the dead and defeated death.
Mario, if you give up the battle and just say, God, I'm a rebel and you repent
and trust in Christ, God will forgive every cent you've ever
committed and grant everlasting life as a free gift.
Do you believe what I'm saying?
Yes, it's the gospel truth.
I wouldn't lie to you.
Are you ready to repent and trust in Christ?
Yes, I pray with you.
Sure, although I pray for Mario.
Think we met today. Thank you.
We met today. I pray today.
He'll truly repent and trust in Jesus and have a since
forgiven and a second pass from death to life in Jesus name we pray.
Amen. You have a Bible.
I
know.
I'm, I'm going to give you some literature that you know while you're weeping.
Any idea
because I have sinned as a man.
OK, that's called contrition.
And the Bible says godly sorrow.
Being sorry for your sins works repentance.
So I trust today that God's brought conviction of sin to you.
And, you know, you have sinned against God and you'll understand that
God can forgive you and grant you everlasting life as a free gift.
I've got some literature for you.
OK, Mario, thank you for talking to me. I really appreciate it.
I appreciate you interviewing me.
I do.
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