August 17, 2025 • 27 mins
Fighting bad influences
Car accident took fiancé life
Left with her two daughters
Car accident took fiancé life
Left with her two daughters
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
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Speaker 3 (00:05):
Mario, Welcome to Jesus Christ Show.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jesus is a pleasure to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
My pleasure, Mario. How can I help you?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Jesus? I feel who was the king that that chopped
off John the Baptist head, King Heron Herod? Herod, Well, Jesus,
I'm calling today because I feel a little bit like
King Herod. I'm a little embarrassed. I like to hear
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your word. I really do. I like to hear your word.
I'm interested in it. I'll get up and I'll listen
to Bible study at two three in the morning. If
it's on a two three in the morning, I love it.
It's just there's a problem that I always do the
bad things. I always do bad things, but I always
I'm always so close to your word, and it interests
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me so much. Before Jesus, I was a drug addict before,
and I was in and out of jails. One time,
light came to into my life, just like it did
to Saul before he turned into Paul. And I can
hear Jesus telling me I have a plan for you,
and I decided to turn my life around. Ever since
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that day, it was in jail. It wasn't the expression
of my mom's face. It wasn't the damage that I
looked around my life that I was doing that changed
my life. It really wasn't. I really didn't care.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
What was.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
It was the Holy Spirit when I asked Jesus for help,
just the thought, the expression that I was just as
important as every other human being on this earth, that
he had the same love for me that he had
for everybody else that I was, that he doesn't have
any favorites, that he loves everybody the same. It was
a feeling inside that really scared me, that said, you
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know what, this man really does exist and he loves
me the same. So I started going to church every Sunday,
and I started talking to younger people, don't do drugs,
and don't do this. This is bad for you. You're
going the wrong way. The truth is Jesus. And I
started feeling really good, really good in sight, and I
was like, wow, you know what, it feels great, not
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just to stop for yourself, but to actually prevent somebody
else from doing it. It feels really good. So everything
was going good and nice and peachy, and suddenly I
didn't realize this. I didn't realize doing your work, your
deep it was actually gonna get harder. I thought my
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problems were going to actually go away. I didn't know
that Satan was gonna come at me ten times stronger,
that he was doing what he was doing before. So
I ended up going and talking to younger children, and
at the same time I ended up refalling again. I
ended up doing marijuana, and I ended up committing adult
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tree while I was talking to these people. So one
week we pass by and I'll go and I'll talk
to these people and I'll say, you know what, treat
the neighbor, that the way you treat thyself, don't commit
adult treat and don't do drugs. And I obey the
law and do this and this, and people will come
up to me after I finished speaking and they will say,
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you know what, I was really touched by your testimony.
Thank you so much. It's gonna help my son so much.
And I will feel really good. But the worst part
was that when two, four or five days later will
pass by, I will be a hypocrite. Somebody will come
up to be married and I'll be with him. An
opportunity will will come around to smoke a jointing and
I'll smoke it. But and then two three weeks later,
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I'll try to pick myself back up and go and
give another speech. Now, the people that were close to
me and my family members, they were like, why do
you do this? I go, Look, I'm trying to be
a good person. I'm trying to give out the good word.
God sees that I'm trying. I'm not planning on giving
a speech on Sunday and getting high or doing adultery
on Thursday. I'm not planning on doing that. I'm really
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trying to give my life together. It just so happens
that I keep falling, and I keep stumbling, and I
keep falling, and I keep stumbling, and I just want
to I wanted to stop already. Look, Jesus knows that
I want to be with him. He knows that I
want to be in heaven with him. He knows that
he's my true four one K. I don't care about
my stock. I want my real four one K. I
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want something to have my back when I die. Now,
when I retire sixty five, I want to be with you.
Why do you make it so hard for me? Last
night I was teaching Bible study to my nephews. Four
of my nephews and two of my nieces I teach.
I was teaching him about Jesus. I was reading story
to him about Jesus, about the miracles that you make.
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Thirty minutes later, Sadan shows up at my door. One
of my friends show up and say, hey, you want
to go smoke a joint. I put my Bible study
session with all my niece and nephews. I put that
on pause. I said, I'll be back in ten minutes.
I go outside, I get high, I come backside and
we pick up where we left off. Okay, so who
was David and who was Goliad? And they start answering
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my questions and it's the wrong way to do it,
the wrong way to go about it. But I can't
be a Christian.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
One hundred yes, yes, yes you can't. Now No that okay,
but you can. You're you're you're putting You're right on
all accounts. One, it was beautiful the way you noticed
that God sees you as he sees everyone. That is
an important thing to know is that when when I
died on that cross, it was for everyone. You included
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a past present in future sins However, you're making excuses
to do some things that are only causing you to
reinforce old bad habits. And the marijuana is going to
be a problem because when you're in the Bible, the
word for sorcery is translated from the word pharmakia in
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the Greek. Pharmakia is where you get pharmacy from, and
so sorcery in scripture was seen just it was seen
to be equal with the use of drugs to get high.
So really, what you're doing is you're opening up a
door to the devil every single time you go to
get hot to change your mental state, and that makes
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it easier to make bad decisions. You have to start cutting,
truly cutting. You're on the right track, Mario, and it's
going to happen as long as you want it to happen.
If you continue down the path and wanting to strength
than yourself, I would say, don't go talking and preaching
and teaching at this point. You need to start studying
and getting your life right, and if that means going
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into a group home or something where you can stay
away from drugs for a while. Also, don't put yourself
in the position where you're not supposed to be with
women that you're not supposed to be with. You have
to start causing major boundaries in your life, Mario, around
the friends. You said, Satan showed up at your door,
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you know, as your friend, asking you to participate in
something you shouldn't be. You have to have greater If
the devil himself stood before you and said I want
you to reject Christ and come with me, you'd say no.
So why do you let these little things influence you.
You're stronger than that. Of course, the devil's going to
come after you more now because you are actually making change,
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and you are doing things good for life and for
the people around you and for the Gospel. And of
course you're going to have a target on you. But
you have to continue. Scripture says resist the devil and
he shall flee. You're not resisting him. You're going, hey,
why don't we go out and hang out? And you
need to. You need to get that strength and you
have it because a person in your position doesn't get
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in your position unless they're a person of strength. You've
just used your strengths for the wrong things. You've used
them for doing bad things, and you have to you
have to fight that you have to fight every day.
So so today, Mario, what I ask of you today
is not do any of that today. No pot today,
no adultery, none of that. Today, just read, study, someone
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asks you, you simply say no. And then tomorrow I
ask the same thing, and just do it each day.
Tell yourself today, I'm going to get through it. Just today,
I'm going to say no. Today, I'm going to run
from that. Today I'm going to put myself in this
this word. There's an old, old saying. I want you
to remember, Mario, and that is the Bible. We'll keep
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you from the devil, but the devil will keep you
from the Bible. So you've got to spend time in
God's word and not be be bound by We have
to take a break. But you're going to do those
things for me, and you're gonna fight strong. Yeah, you
gotta fight with the same strength. Okay, all right, okay,
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and then one day you're gonna be a veterano for God. Right,
all right, my friend, go in peace. Mario's call was wonderful,
and I'm gonna I want to point out a few
things because you know, there's a lot of character in
his voice, and you can hear a lot of the
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residual stat from which he came, the attitude and the
integrity of the patterns that he knew. This is where
I grew up, this is what I learned, this is
what I did. What have you? But if you really
just listen to some of the words that were said,
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it's very powerful. The thought that God dies for all.
It's only those who receive it and repent that are
reconciled with God. But really it's for everyone. And you
may look at yourself as better than someone else. God
does not. God is seen based on their heart and
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that they receive him. That's a weird measurement to you maybe,
but not to God. Also, God is very clear throughout
Scripture that the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
I even say that in Matthew chapter twenty six. That is,
there are things that you're going to want to do,
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and you're going to say this is what's right to do,
and your body's not going to want to do it.
You will make mistakes. Scripture also says in the Book
of Proverbs that a righteous man falls seven times and
seven times gets up. Really, it's about getting up if
you do it continually you get into the state of rebellion.
But Mario's plea was, listen, I want to know God.
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You know, he would not have called if he didn't care.
See that's the beauty about not caring. You don't care.
So if you don't care, you don't worry what God
thinks or anything. Mario did. Mario does. He cares about God.
He cares about the things of God, and he's turned
his life around now. To see that major change is wonderful.
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But then as he puts it, to see that change
and then to still know that I want these things
sex and drugs. Why is that? Well, because you're breaking
an intense habit, the habit of sin, and you will
always have sin in this body. But you want to
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every day, each day, little more and more of it
out of your life. That's what God asks. Tero. Welcome
to the Jesus Christ Show.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
I had a question. I was raised to believe that
you know, when after you die, either go to let
me will you? I guess you go before God and
you get judged and you go to heaven or you
go to hell. But since my mom passed away last year,
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I'm kind of wondering I've been having conversations with people,
and I work mostly around other nationalities, and they're mostly Muslims,
and they're saying that there's like a holding place that
when you die, you don't go die directly the heaven
and until judgment day, until everybody diets judged well.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Islam is different than Christianity, which is different than Judaism.
So there's although there are all people of faith and
what are often referred to as people of the Book
or Abraham belief systems, monotheistic belief systems, that there's a
lot of similarities, but there are enough differences to actually
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set them apart. So if you're proclaiming to be a Christian,
then you would use the Christian Bible to get your
information from. And in this particular case, when you look
at the Book of Hebrews nine, verse twenty seven, it
says ending as much as it is appointed for men
to die once and after this comes judgment. Also Tewod
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Corinthians five, Paul talks about that to be absent from
the body is to be present with the Lord, and
so specifically, as far as humans are concerned, the moment
you were dead, it happens. However, having said that there
is a problem tera that that people start to ask
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when questions or how long questions when you're dealing with
something that's outside of time, once you leave this plane,
this earth in this way, in this sense, you are
not bound by the time continuum in the same way,
in the same sense. So there are Catholic brothers and
sisters they believe one way, our Protestant brothers and sisters
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believe another way. Some Catholics, although this has changed over
the years, believe in the concept of purgatory. So there
are differences even within the faith between the two as well.
And I encourage you to poke around and see those differences,
because you do get to a place where outside of
time it's a little different. There's no well, you go
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here for a holding place. But you'd have to ask yourself, Tara,
as a Christian, that you are cleansed by the blood
of the Cross, then what is the cleansing period? What's
being done there? Are you being more cleansed by the
cross or is it something you're doing. If it's something
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about that you're doing or you're working through or your
cleansing yours, then that becomes a problem because it's not
about you. It's about the act that Christ did on
the cross. When I was there, nailed that cross. What
did I say to tell Usty it is finished. Some
even translate that to be paid in full. They didn't
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say it is finished, but there's more to come that
you'll have to do on your own. And if I
said that, then I could see where you'd get that.
So maybe some steady time on your own would be best. Alan,
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Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Hello Allen, Yes, welcome
to the show. How can I help you, Well.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
It's a pleasure to speak with you. I wanted to
tell you that I lost my fiance last Sunday in
a car accident.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
I'm sorry, that's horrible news.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yes, she insisted on taking the girls up, our twelve
year old and fourteen year old that I've been with
them for six and a half years and raising them
along with her, and we're going to be getting married
in December, and she was insisting on taking them on
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a little trip before school started again, and I couldn't
get away, and I tried my best to persuade her
to not go, but she's very hard headed. My Lena
is a very very religious, very devout Christian and has
such a very strong faith that has taken her through
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her life. And she raised two wonderful, wonderful girls that
people just are always amazed at how great these kids are.
And I'm kind of left with the task of how
to pick up and fill her shoes. It's been difficult,
but I have a The church we belong to is
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a very very close knit group. A congregation is made
up of everyone knows each other, and our inner circle
of about four or five families, six families that we
do things all the time together. We're very close, and
they've grown up with the kids. And when I was
at first after getting over the initial shock, and the
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girls are fine. This is the thing, Like, the kids
are fine, not a scratch on them. They were in
the car with her and not as on her. But
and my fancy was taken instantly. And so as I'm
getting over were actually I'll not go over guys, I'm
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dealing with this, it suddenly hits me that I need
to do the best thing for the kids, and I
I know that my fancy just wants me to do
everything I can to try and carry on and see
that her girls get the best and something. It's been
sort of a very certaindipitous sort of situation for me
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because everywhere I turn, I seem to have these little
people are going out of their way to do things.
You know, there's a lot of red tape involved in
dealing with all these little biocracies that been dealing with
at this time, and everyone is that I come across
as for somebody stepping in and making things easier all
the time, and.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Not used to that.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I'm in work in the legal field, and I'm used
to seeing people give it, no matter what the situation is,
giving a hard time. And I've always seen miracles in
Elena's life, my fiancee, and and right when I'm trying
to figure out what to do with the girls, four
families first three, then four families and our church stepped
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up and wanted to adopt the girls and take them
to their home and try to raise them and and
carry on. And I'm kind of left with I'm thinking
that might be the best thing to do for them,
because their mom was not just their mom, she was
their best friend. And every evening at eight o'clock they
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would all get together and pray and I'd leave them
a point after a while, because they would just talk
girl talk for about an hour and then go to sleep.
That's what we did every day.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
And Alan, what, what did your fiancee they like about you?
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I think that I think she liked. What she liked
about me was that I really cared about them and
that I was kind of a rock. I was always
fourteen ahead.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
And when was the wedding.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
It's supposed to be this December.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Okay, so roughly six months from now, so heaven forbid
this accident happens in seven months.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
That's true. That's true.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
She chose you, Alan, She chose you because there's something
about you that she loved. There's something about you that
she trusted with her babies, the little girls that are
now growing into young women, that she trusted and she
wanted that in her home. And for six years, that's
what you've been doing. And in the betrothal period in scripture,
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you're married during this time, really and well in what
is called engagement now really is a is a very
watered down version of a betrothal. If if you remember,
my earth parents in scripture were during their betrothal and
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they were not yet married, so but everything was the same.
They still would have had to have gone through divorce.
Anybody at the time would have. So although you weren't married,
you were acting like you were. You were together, and
you've spent time with these kids, and these kids live
with you.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Yes, okay, you know I wish I had had those
words to comfort Elena with because Elena, I can't. She's
very devout and she tried to hold to the scripture
and living together was not in her her idea of
the right thing to do.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Well, it wouldn't have been my choice either, but it's
a choice you guys made, and and I really for
the sake of time, as the clock you know, runs
out pretty quickly around here, I do want you to
leave with that and that knowledge that although it's your decision,
they know you. They've gone through great change and loss
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and they don't need to go through it again. And
their mom chose you. So if you to think that
they need a female figure, now, that would be great
if they had that, But that's not the that's not
the circumstances. The circumstances are as such that their mom
chose someone that she loves and that she trusts, and
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she's now gone. You still have to be the person
that she loved and trust with her most valuable possession
on earth, her children, and at this point to send
them into another spiral. Just because you are not going
to be their mother doesn't mean that you can't be
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their father. You have every ability and more to be
the parent that they need that anybody else from the
church could. Just because they're two people. You have things
that they'll never ever have the past six years, the experience,
the knowledge of their mom in an intimate way. There's
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all kinds of things that you have that you can
bring and this decision is yours. But I don't want
you to lose sight of those important things and how
you are going to be able to share those things.
You don't need to raise them like the mother would
you do the best you can. And she chose you,
knowing that if she should ever have an accident like this,
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that those children were going to be in your hands.
That didn't change just because you guys were in aged
and not married. The engagement was the promise that I
trust you and you trust me, and we love each
other and we're going to raise these kids. That promise
never changed regardless of whether you filed the paperwork or not.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Well, thank you for bringing me back on the right
track and giving me some new focus here.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
You love those girls and my heart well you continue
to do so, and you raise them right to the
best of your ability with the tools that you have.
That's all anybody can ask. Wow, it's very easy to
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drive on a road that has clear road signs stop go,
no left turn? What have you? Life isn't always like that.
And speaking with Alan and his situation, the horrible loss
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of a fiance just a week ago, and you can
even kind of still hear the shock in his voice
as he's processing what that means in his life and
the life lives of these two girls. His fiance had
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two girls. Alan falls in love with her. These two
girls come into his life. A horrible accident happened six
months prior to the wedding, and there's a lot of
different emotions that could play a part. You could see
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someone wanting to go I don't want to deal with this,
not my problem. But I dare you to find even
a hint of that in his voice. What I heard
was a man who truly wanted to do the right thing,
who scared, but truly wants to do the right thing
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by those girls, and just by the response, my goodness
of people that are rooting for him and those girls
and reminding that they are a family, and that there
is even support groups for widowers and the like, and
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the uniqueness of the situation where you're going you know
what to do, strangely enough, as unique as it sounds,
people have experienced this. Had a discussion very recently with
a young girl who went through the same thing and
said it that yes, it was tough at times, but
that ultimately, ultimately she was better for it that the
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family stayed the family. And I think that there's an
opportunity for God to be glorified in this situation, and
I know that he will be. I wish it was
easier to you know, to see and sometimes you look
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around and go, well, I got to do this. They've
got to have mom and dad. But I will tell
you they could do no better than a man who
was willing to make a call, to look around, to
hear about options and exhaust everything to make the best
decision possible. You really could do no better. And we'll
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pray for Alan and his situation this week, won't we
end and really lift them up? It has been a
show and a half, and I thank you for joining
me throughout it. Pray for the people that you heard,
Pray for the people and pain whether you know them
or not, and remember, more importantly than all of this craziness,
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I'm with you always. KFI A M six forty on
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Speaker 3 (00:05):
Mario, Welcome to Jesus Christ Show.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jesus is a pleasure to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
My pleasure, Mario. How can I help you?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Jesus? I feel who was the king that that chopped
off John the Baptist head, King Heron Herod? Herod, Well, Jesus,
I'm calling today because I feel a little bit like
King Herod. I'm a little embarrassed. I like to hear
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your word. I really do. I like to hear your word.
I'm interested in it. I'll get up and I'll listen
to Bible study at two three in the morning. If
it's on a two three in the morning, I love it.
It's just there's a problem that I always do the
bad things. I always do bad things, but I always
I'm always so close to your word, and it interests
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me so much. Before Jesus, I was a drug addict before,
and I was in and out of jails. One time,
light came to into my life, just like it did
to Saul before he turned into Paul. And I can
hear Jesus telling me I have a plan for you,
and I decided to turn my life around. Ever since
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that day, it was in jail. It wasn't the expression
of my mom's face. It wasn't the damage that I
looked around my life that I was doing that changed
my life. It really wasn't. I really didn't care.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
What was.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
It was the Holy Spirit when I asked Jesus for help,
just the thought, the expression that I was just as
important as every other human being on this earth, that
he had the same love for me that he had
for everybody else that I was, that he doesn't have
any favorites, that he loves everybody the same. It was
a feeling inside that really scared me, that said, you
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know what, this man really does exist and he loves
me the same. So I started going to church every Sunday,
and I started talking to younger people, don't do drugs,
and don't do this. This is bad for you. You're
going the wrong way. The truth is Jesus. And I
started feeling really good, really good in sight, and I
was like, wow, you know what, it feels great, not
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just to stop for yourself, but to actually prevent somebody
else from doing it. It feels really good. So everything
was going good and nice and peachy, and suddenly I
didn't realize this. I didn't realize doing your work, your
deep it was actually gonna get harder. I thought my
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problems were going to actually go away. I didn't know
that Satan was gonna come at me ten times stronger,
that he was doing what he was doing before. So
I ended up going and talking to younger children, and
at the same time I ended up refalling again. I
ended up doing marijuana, and I ended up committing adult
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tree while I was talking to these people. So one
week we pass by and I'll go and I'll talk
to these people and I'll say, you know what, treat
the neighbor, that the way you treat thyself, don't commit
adult treat and don't do drugs. And I obey the
law and do this and this, and people will come
up to me after I finished speaking and they will say,
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you know what, I was really touched by your testimony.
Thank you so much. It's gonna help my son so much.
And I will feel really good. But the worst part
was that when two, four or five days later will
pass by, I will be a hypocrite. Somebody will come
up to be married and I'll be with him. An
opportunity will will come around to smoke a jointing and
I'll smoke it. But and then two three weeks later,
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I'll try to pick myself back up and go and
give another speech. Now, the people that were close to
me and my family members, they were like, why do
you do this? I go, Look, I'm trying to be
a good person. I'm trying to give out the good word.
God sees that I'm trying. I'm not planning on giving
a speech on Sunday and getting high or doing adultery
on Thursday. I'm not planning on doing that. I'm really
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trying to give my life together. It just so happens
that I keep falling, and I keep stumbling, and I
keep falling, and I keep stumbling, and I just want
to I wanted to stop already. Look, Jesus knows that
I want to be with him. He knows that I
want to be in heaven with him. He knows that
he's my true four one K. I don't care about
my stock. I want my real four one K. I
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want something to have my back when I die. Now,
when I retire sixty five, I want to be with you.
Why do you make it so hard for me? Last
night I was teaching Bible study to my nephews. Four
of my nephews and two of my nieces I teach.
I was teaching him about Jesus. I was reading story
to him about Jesus, about the miracles that you make.
(04:33):
Thirty minutes later, Sadan shows up at my door. One
of my friends show up and say, hey, you want
to go smoke a joint. I put my Bible study
session with all my niece and nephews. I put that
on pause. I said, I'll be back in ten minutes.
I go outside, I get high, I come backside and
we pick up where we left off. Okay, so who
was David and who was Goliad? And they start answering
(04:57):
my questions and it's the wrong way to do it,
the wrong way to go about it. But I can't
be a Christian.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
One hundred yes, yes, yes you can't. Now No that okay,
but you can. You're you're you're putting You're right on
all accounts. One, it was beautiful the way you noticed
that God sees you as he sees everyone. That is
an important thing to know is that when when I
died on that cross, it was for everyone. You included
(05:24):
a past present in future sins However, you're making excuses
to do some things that are only causing you to
reinforce old bad habits. And the marijuana is going to
be a problem because when you're in the Bible, the
word for sorcery is translated from the word pharmakia in
(05:45):
the Greek. Pharmakia is where you get pharmacy from, and
so sorcery in scripture was seen just it was seen
to be equal with the use of drugs to get high.
So really, what you're doing is you're opening up a
door to the devil every single time you go to
get hot to change your mental state, and that makes
(06:07):
it easier to make bad decisions. You have to start cutting,
truly cutting. You're on the right track, Mario, and it's
going to happen as long as you want it to happen.
If you continue down the path and wanting to strength
than yourself, I would say, don't go talking and preaching
and teaching at this point. You need to start studying
and getting your life right, and if that means going
(06:28):
into a group home or something where you can stay
away from drugs for a while. Also, don't put yourself
in the position where you're not supposed to be with
women that you're not supposed to be with. You have
to start causing major boundaries in your life, Mario, around
the friends. You said, Satan showed up at your door,
(06:49):
you know, as your friend, asking you to participate in
something you shouldn't be. You have to have greater If
the devil himself stood before you and said I want
you to reject Christ and come with me, you'd say no.
So why do you let these little things influence you.
You're stronger than that. Of course, the devil's going to
come after you more now because you are actually making change,
(07:11):
and you are doing things good for life and for
the people around you and for the Gospel. And of
course you're going to have a target on you. But
you have to continue. Scripture says resist the devil and
he shall flee. You're not resisting him. You're going, hey,
why don't we go out and hang out? And you
need to. You need to get that strength and you
have it because a person in your position doesn't get
(07:32):
in your position unless they're a person of strength. You've
just used your strengths for the wrong things. You've used
them for doing bad things, and you have to you
have to fight that you have to fight every day.
So so today, Mario, what I ask of you today
is not do any of that today. No pot today,
no adultery, none of that. Today, just read, study, someone
(07:54):
asks you, you simply say no. And then tomorrow I
ask the same thing, and just do it each day.
Tell yourself today, I'm going to get through it. Just today,
I'm going to say no. Today, I'm going to run
from that. Today I'm going to put myself in this
this word. There's an old, old saying. I want you
to remember, Mario, and that is the Bible. We'll keep
(08:16):
you from the devil, but the devil will keep you
from the Bible. So you've got to spend time in
God's word and not be be bound by We have
to take a break. But you're going to do those
things for me, and you're gonna fight strong. Yeah, you
gotta fight with the same strength. Okay, all right, okay,
(08:38):
and then one day you're gonna be a veterano for God. Right,
all right, my friend, go in peace. Mario's call was wonderful,
and I'm gonna I want to point out a few
things because you know, there's a lot of character in
his voice, and you can hear a lot of the
(08:59):
residual stat from which he came, the attitude and the
integrity of the patterns that he knew. This is where
I grew up, this is what I learned, this is
what I did. What have you? But if you really
just listen to some of the words that were said,
(09:20):
it's very powerful. The thought that God dies for all.
It's only those who receive it and repent that are
reconciled with God. But really it's for everyone. And you
may look at yourself as better than someone else. God
does not. God is seen based on their heart and
(09:40):
that they receive him. That's a weird measurement to you maybe,
but not to God. Also, God is very clear throughout
Scripture that the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
I even say that in Matthew chapter twenty six. That is,
there are things that you're going to want to do,
(10:01):
and you're going to say this is what's right to do,
and your body's not going to want to do it.
You will make mistakes. Scripture also says in the Book
of Proverbs that a righteous man falls seven times and
seven times gets up. Really, it's about getting up if
you do it continually you get into the state of rebellion.
But Mario's plea was, listen, I want to know God.
(10:25):
You know, he would not have called if he didn't care.
See that's the beauty about not caring. You don't care.
So if you don't care, you don't worry what God
thinks or anything. Mario did. Mario does. He cares about God.
He cares about the things of God, and he's turned
his life around now. To see that major change is wonderful.
(10:48):
But then as he puts it, to see that change
and then to still know that I want these things
sex and drugs. Why is that? Well, because you're breaking
an intense habit, the habit of sin, and you will
always have sin in this body. But you want to
(11:09):
every day, each day, little more and more of it
out of your life. That's what God asks. Tero. Welcome
to the Jesus Christ Show.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
I had a question. I was raised to believe that
you know, when after you die, either go to let
me will you? I guess you go before God and
you get judged and you go to heaven or you
go to hell. But since my mom passed away last year,
(11:45):
I'm kind of wondering I've been having conversations with people,
and I work mostly around other nationalities, and they're mostly Muslims,
and they're saying that there's like a holding place that
when you die, you don't go die directly the heaven
and until judgment day, until everybody diets judged well.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Islam is different than Christianity, which is different than Judaism.
So there's although there are all people of faith and
what are often referred to as people of the Book
or Abraham belief systems, monotheistic belief systems, that there's a
lot of similarities, but there are enough differences to actually
(12:29):
set them apart. So if you're proclaiming to be a Christian,
then you would use the Christian Bible to get your
information from. And in this particular case, when you look
at the Book of Hebrews nine, verse twenty seven, it
says ending as much as it is appointed for men
to die once and after this comes judgment. Also Tewod
(12:53):
Corinthians five, Paul talks about that to be absent from
the body is to be present with the Lord, and
so specifically, as far as humans are concerned, the moment
you were dead, it happens. However, having said that there
is a problem tera that that people start to ask
(13:16):
when questions or how long questions when you're dealing with
something that's outside of time, once you leave this plane,
this earth in this way, in this sense, you are
not bound by the time continuum in the same way,
in the same sense. So there are Catholic brothers and
sisters they believe one way, our Protestant brothers and sisters
(13:39):
believe another way. Some Catholics, although this has changed over
the years, believe in the concept of purgatory. So there
are differences even within the faith between the two as well.
And I encourage you to poke around and see those differences,
because you do get to a place where outside of
time it's a little different. There's no well, you go
(14:01):
here for a holding place. But you'd have to ask yourself, Tara,
as a Christian, that you are cleansed by the blood
of the Cross, then what is the cleansing period? What's
being done there? Are you being more cleansed by the
cross or is it something you're doing. If it's something
(14:21):
about that you're doing or you're working through or your
cleansing yours, then that becomes a problem because it's not
about you. It's about the act that Christ did on
the cross. When I was there, nailed that cross. What
did I say to tell Usty it is finished. Some
even translate that to be paid in full. They didn't
(14:42):
say it is finished, but there's more to come that
you'll have to do on your own. And if I
said that, then I could see where you'd get that.
So maybe some steady time on your own would be best. Alan,
(15:03):
Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Hello Allen, Yes, welcome
to the show. How can I help you, Well.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
It's a pleasure to speak with you. I wanted to
tell you that I lost my fiance last Sunday in
a car accident.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
I'm sorry, that's horrible news.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yes, she insisted on taking the girls up, our twelve
year old and fourteen year old that I've been with
them for six and a half years and raising them
along with her, and we're going to be getting married
in December, and she was insisting on taking them on
(15:48):
a little trip before school started again, and I couldn't
get away, and I tried my best to persuade her
to not go, but she's very hard headed. My Lena
is a very very religious, very devout Christian and has
such a very strong faith that has taken her through
(16:10):
her life. And she raised two wonderful, wonderful girls that
people just are always amazed at how great these kids are.
And I'm kind of left with the task of how
to pick up and fill her shoes. It's been difficult,
but I have a The church we belong to is
(16:32):
a very very close knit group. A congregation is made
up of everyone knows each other, and our inner circle
of about four or five families, six families that we
do things all the time together. We're very close, and
they've grown up with the kids. And when I was
at first after getting over the initial shock, and the
(16:52):
girls are fine. This is the thing, Like, the kids
are fine, not a scratch on them. They were in
the car with her and not as on her. But
and my fancy was taken instantly. And so as I'm
getting over were actually I'll not go over guys, I'm
(17:14):
dealing with this, it suddenly hits me that I need
to do the best thing for the kids, and I
I know that my fancy just wants me to do
everything I can to try and carry on and see
that her girls get the best and something. It's been
sort of a very certaindipitous sort of situation for me
(17:37):
because everywhere I turn, I seem to have these little
people are going out of their way to do things.
You know, there's a lot of red tape involved in
dealing with all these little biocracies that been dealing with
at this time, and everyone is that I come across
as for somebody stepping in and making things easier all
the time, and.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Not used to that.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I'm in work in the legal field, and I'm used
to seeing people give it, no matter what the situation is,
giving a hard time. And I've always seen miracles in
Elena's life, my fiancee, and and right when I'm trying
to figure out what to do with the girls, four
families first three, then four families and our church stepped
(18:20):
up and wanted to adopt the girls and take them
to their home and try to raise them and and
carry on. And I'm kind of left with I'm thinking
that might be the best thing to do for them,
because their mom was not just their mom, she was
their best friend. And every evening at eight o'clock they
(18:43):
would all get together and pray and I'd leave them
a point after a while, because they would just talk
girl talk for about an hour and then go to sleep.
That's what we did every day.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
And Alan, what, what did your fiancee they like about you?
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I think that I think she liked. What she liked
about me was that I really cared about them and
that I was kind of a rock. I was always
fourteen ahead.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
And when was the wedding.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
It's supposed to be this December.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Okay, so roughly six months from now, so heaven forbid
this accident happens in seven months.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
That's true. That's true.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
She chose you, Alan, She chose you because there's something
about you that she loved. There's something about you that
she trusted with her babies, the little girls that are
now growing into young women, that she trusted and she
wanted that in her home. And for six years, that's
what you've been doing. And in the betrothal period in scripture,
(19:59):
you're married during this time, really and well in what
is called engagement now really is a is a very
watered down version of a betrothal. If if you remember,
my earth parents in scripture were during their betrothal and
(20:21):
they were not yet married, so but everything was the same.
They still would have had to have gone through divorce.
Anybody at the time would have. So although you weren't married,
you were acting like you were. You were together, and
you've spent time with these kids, and these kids live
with you.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Yes, okay, you know I wish I had had those
words to comfort Elena with because Elena, I can't. She's
very devout and she tried to hold to the scripture
and living together was not in her her idea of
the right thing to do.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Well, it wouldn't have been my choice either, but it's
a choice you guys made, and and I really for
the sake of time, as the clock you know, runs
out pretty quickly around here, I do want you to
leave with that and that knowledge that although it's your decision,
they know you. They've gone through great change and loss
(21:24):
and they don't need to go through it again. And
their mom chose you. So if you to think that
they need a female figure, now, that would be great
if they had that, But that's not the that's not
the circumstances. The circumstances are as such that their mom
chose someone that she loves and that she trusts, and
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she's now gone. You still have to be the person
that she loved and trust with her most valuable possession
on earth, her children, and at this point to send
them into another spiral. Just because you are not going
to be their mother doesn't mean that you can't be
(22:09):
their father. You have every ability and more to be
the parent that they need that anybody else from the
church could. Just because they're two people. You have things
that they'll never ever have the past six years, the experience,
the knowledge of their mom in an intimate way. There's
(22:31):
all kinds of things that you have that you can
bring and this decision is yours. But I don't want
you to lose sight of those important things and how
you are going to be able to share those things.
You don't need to raise them like the mother would
you do the best you can. And she chose you,
knowing that if she should ever have an accident like this,
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that those children were going to be in your hands.
That didn't change just because you guys were in aged
and not married. The engagement was the promise that I
trust you and you trust me, and we love each
other and we're going to raise these kids. That promise
never changed regardless of whether you filed the paperwork or not.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Well, thank you for bringing me back on the right
track and giving me some new focus here.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
You love those girls and my heart well you continue
to do so, and you raise them right to the
best of your ability with the tools that you have.
That's all anybody can ask. Wow, it's very easy to
(23:39):
drive on a road that has clear road signs stop go,
no left turn? What have you? Life isn't always like that.
And speaking with Alan and his situation, the horrible loss
(24:02):
of a fiance just a week ago, and you can
even kind of still hear the shock in his voice
as he's processing what that means in his life and
the life lives of these two girls. His fiance had
(24:26):
two girls. Alan falls in love with her. These two
girls come into his life. A horrible accident happened six
months prior to the wedding, and there's a lot of
different emotions that could play a part. You could see
(24:49):
someone wanting to go I don't want to deal with this,
not my problem. But I dare you to find even
a hint of that in his voice. What I heard
was a man who truly wanted to do the right thing,
who scared, but truly wants to do the right thing
(25:10):
by those girls, and just by the response, my goodness
of people that are rooting for him and those girls
and reminding that they are a family, and that there
is even support groups for widowers and the like, and
(25:31):
the uniqueness of the situation where you're going you know
what to do, strangely enough, as unique as it sounds,
people have experienced this. Had a discussion very recently with
a young girl who went through the same thing and
said it that yes, it was tough at times, but
that ultimately, ultimately she was better for it that the
(25:54):
family stayed the family. And I think that there's an
opportunity for God to be glorified in this situation, and
I know that he will be. I wish it was
easier to you know, to see and sometimes you look
(26:14):
around and go, well, I got to do this. They've
got to have mom and dad. But I will tell
you they could do no better than a man who
was willing to make a call, to look around, to
hear about options and exhaust everything to make the best
decision possible. You really could do no better. And we'll
(26:38):
pray for Alan and his situation this week, won't we
end and really lift them up? It has been a
show and a half, and I thank you for joining
me throughout it. Pray for the people that you heard,
Pray for the people and pain whether you know them
or not, and remember, more importantly than all of this craziness,
(26:59):
I'm with you always. KFI A M six forty on
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