WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:03.780 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. 00:04.660 --> 00:04.900 Amen. 00:05.840 --> 00:15.100 I entrust you with me to open your Bibles and read the Gospel of Mark, chapter 16. 00:15.420 --> 00:17.920 Chapter 16 of the Gospel of Mark. 00:18.600 --> 00:25.160 And we are going, in this sacred word, to read this message of our Lord Jesus 00:25.160 --> 00:31.680 Christ, starting with verse 15 and even reading up to verse 20. 00:32.100 --> 00:34.560 Let's read the word of the Lord. 00:35.460 --> 00:44.760 And Jesus said to them, And throughout the world preach the gospel to every creature. 00:45.600 --> 00:53.100 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will 00:53.100 --> 00:54.320 be condemned. 00:55.540 --> 00:58.200 And these signs will follow those who believe. 00:58.940 --> 01:05.100 In my name they will cast out demons, they will speak new tongues, they will 01:05.100 --> 01:10.840 remove snakes, and if they drink deadly things, it will not harm them. 01:11.460 --> 01:15.020 They will lay their hands on the sick and they will be healed. 01:16.220 --> 01:23.900 And the Lord, after he spoke to them, was received up in heaven and was placed 01:23.900 --> 01:26.100 at the right hand of God. 01:27.020 --> 01:35.920 And they went out and preached everywhere, working with them the Lord and confirming 01:35.920 --> 01:39.600 the word with the signs that followed. 01:40.220 --> 01:40.520 Amen. 01:41.440 --> 01:47.480 This is, there is no doubt, the best introduction one could imagine, 01:47.480 --> 01:55.000 because it is this introduction that gives us to understand and to know better that 01:55.000 --> 02:03.640 we are not basing ourselves in any tradition, in any religious experience, 02:04.640 --> 02:17.540 nor in any philosophy or art of man, in any religion of human foundation. 02:18.460 --> 02:24.620 This, even if we speak of religion, is not even the product of the religion 02:24.620 --> 02:30.400 that the Apostle Santiago speaks of in terms of our conduct within Christianity. 02:30.400 --> 02:31.680 This is. 02:32.200 --> 02:40.080 That is why I recommend to you, even, to do what the Lord Jesus did and 02:40.080 --> 02:43.100 what I had to do in my own religious experience. 02:43.400 --> 02:48.320 I say I had to do, because there was no other alternative, at least healthy, 02:48.480 --> 02:50.400 healthy and eternal. 02:50.400 --> 03:01.320 And it is to entrust myself to the Holy Scripture as the only source of divine 03:01.320 --> 03:01.320 revelation. 03:02.680 --> 03:08.420 Jesus himself, in his own time, in his own ministry, spoke to us about 03:08.420 --> 03:08.660 this. 03:09.400 --> 03:16.260 He spoke to us through his own ministerial experience among the religious of his time 03:16.260 --> 03:16.880 in this way. 03:16.880 --> 03:23.620 He says, Scour the Scriptures, because it seems to you that in them you 03:23.620 --> 03:24.240 have eternal life. 03:25.280 --> 03:31.600 And it is they, the Scriptures, that give testimony of me. 03:32.240 --> 03:39.240 In other words, apart from this sacred word, there is nothing, there will not be, 03:39.480 --> 03:46.040 there has not been anything that gives testimony of Jesus Christ outside the word 03:46.040 --> 03:46.800 of God. 03:46.880 --> 03:49.180 The Holy Scripture, the Bible. 03:51.940 --> 03:56.820 Contrary to my own personal experience as a Roman Catholic and Roman Catholic priest 03:56.820 --> 04:02.920 of the Jesuit order, my experience was the complete opposite of this divine 04:02.920 --> 04:05.720 revelation, of this admonition of Christ. 04:07.100 --> 04:12.800 For me, the testimony of Jesus Christ was not enclosed in the Scriptures, 04:12.800 --> 04:18.760 as Christ himself divinely decrees and admonishes his apostles, not only, 04:19.020 --> 04:24.420 but the religious of his time, apart from what they felt, apart from what 04:24.420 --> 04:30.400 they experienced, apart from what they found in the Scriptures, to understand, 04:30.640 --> 04:36.200 to know and to believe that only they, the Scriptures, are the vehicle, 04:36.520 --> 04:42.160 are the only means where the testimony of Christ can be found. 04:43.080 --> 04:48.980 It is the testimony of Christ in my own life, emanated from them, received from 04:48.980 --> 04:56.300 them and believed by them, that at this time I begin to pass to you and to 04:56.300 --> 04:57.060 introduce you. 05:01.310 --> 05:09.430 At the beginning, I cannot fail to allude to what many of you have already read. 05:10.470 --> 05:18.910 A pamphlet, a booklet, in the form of a comic, a comic magazine, although it has 05:18.910 --> 05:24.490 nothing of a comic, about the testimony of Christ in my life, titled Alberto. 05:25.930 --> 05:35.030 That same pamphlet, that same booklet, that same magazine, as it is presented for 05:35.030 --> 05:40.550 all ages, from the child to the young and the adult, has been the instrument of the 05:40.550 --> 05:42.950 Holy Spirit in 160 countries. 05:43.470 --> 05:49.450 Alberto, that same thing you see, that booklet, that magazine, has been the 05:49.450 --> 05:52.550 instrument, I repeat, in 160 countries. 05:52.810 --> 05:58.390 Until two weeks ago, when we received the last letter from one of the smallest and 05:58.390 --> 06:03.530 smallest countries in Africa, that I myself did not know existed, from that 06:03.530 --> 06:09.750 country we receive news, testimonies of Christ in the life of those who, 06:10.150 --> 06:16.610 convicted of the Holy Spirit, receiving faith, the gift to believe in Jesus, 06:17.370 --> 06:22.390 gave themselves to the Holy Scripture, with the only means, the only channel, 06:22.970 --> 06:27.750 we could say, even more to emphasize it dramatically, the only channel, 06:28.050 --> 06:32.510 contrary to the seven channels that are spoken of according to the Council of 06:32.510 --> 06:38.250 Trent, in reference to the sacraments, here the only channel of divine revelation 06:38.250 --> 06:39.470 is the Scriptures. 06:39.950 --> 06:45.330 And through this only channel, it was that these people, who began to 06:45.330 --> 06:51.970 read Alberto, that same booklet, that same comic magazine that you see, 06:52.470 --> 06:57.570 and that you may have already read, is what has been the instrument, 06:57.650 --> 07:04.190 even in the last country that we have received correspondence of the conviction 07:04.190 --> 07:10.970 by the Holy Spirit, of the conversion of thousands, and thousands, and thousands, 07:11.250 --> 07:16.490 and hundreds of thousands of Catholics, of Catholics, of charismatics, 07:16.910 --> 07:23.150 who have come by faith to receive the saving grace of Jesus Christ. 07:23.530 --> 07:33.750 There is no doubt that in this way we are entering the divine purpose for which this 07:33.750 --> 07:35.170 testimony is being given. 07:35.170 --> 07:42.610 And the divine purpose has already been very much declared by the Gospel of Mark, 07:42.930 --> 07:45.190 chapter 16, verse 15. 07:45.690 --> 07:54.190 The purpose was already decreed in advance, by God, when the same Jesus 07:54.190 --> 07:58.870 Christ, after the Resurrection, calls the apostles to give this decree, 07:59.070 --> 08:04.990 to transmit this divine decree, which involves this exclusive purpose of 08:04.990 --> 08:10.590 His salvation and redemption, to make it more personal, of my salvation and 08:10.590 --> 08:14.450 redemption, of the salvation and redemption of the human gender. 08:16.530 --> 08:23.590 And it is the revelation of this purpose that is manifested through this decree. 08:23.590 --> 08:30.890 Go around the world and preach the Gospel to every creature. 08:31.110 --> 08:34.690 In other words, not to the creatures, to every creature. 08:35.130 --> 08:39.290 That is to say, that with a lot of exclusivity, person by person, 08:40.030 --> 08:46.010 you have to know the Gospel of Jesus Christ, in order to be able to believe in 08:46.010 --> 08:46.650 Jesus Christ. 08:47.910 --> 08:52.510 Faith comes by hearing, I heard myself say, in the midst of my dilemmas, 08:52.650 --> 08:57.250 in the midst of my controversies, priestly, religious, and now with the 08:57.250 --> 09:05.270 scriptures in my hands, I heard this conflict between the religious tradition 09:05.270 --> 09:11.490 and the written word of God, between the Magisterium, even, on one side and on the 09:11.490 --> 09:15.270 other side the tradition, the written word of God at the center. 09:17.430 --> 09:23.710 I was thrown aside by the Magisterium, and I was thrown aside by the tradition. 09:26.130 --> 09:32.210 In my ambition, I myself seemed to feel, in my spiritual ambition, and in my need 09:32.210 --> 09:35.470 for Christ, and for salvation, and for redemption, and for the remission 09:35.470 --> 09:43.950 of my sins, I felt like I was being torn apart, like I was being torn apart on both 09:43.950 --> 09:52.490 sides, like I was being destroyed, as Solomon himself said to those who asked 09:52.490 --> 09:57.330 and demanded of the child, when the two mothers themselves asked, saying and 09:57.330 --> 10:01.990 claiming that he was the son of each one, Solomon in his wisdom declared, 10:01.990 --> 10:08.150 very well, since there are two mothers who at this time ask for the same son, 10:08.390 --> 10:13.150 the only solution would be to cut that son in two. 10:14.770 --> 10:21.950 And the same feeling went through my veins, my mind, my feelings, my emotions, 10:22.570 --> 10:29.510 and even put in conflict my will between the religious tradition and the religious 10:29.510 --> 10:30.230 Magisterium. 10:32.750 --> 10:38.950 Between the religious authority of men and the divine authority of the Word of God. 10:42.490 --> 10:46.910 Certainly, I could not coordinate between the three. 10:47.370 --> 10:49.510 There was a tremendous mismatch. 10:50.350 --> 10:53.890 While I could coordinate between the tradition and the Magisterium, 10:54.030 --> 10:57.990 I could not coordinate between the Magisterium and the Bible, between the 10:57.990 --> 10:58.950 tradition and the Bible. 10:58.950 --> 11:00.590 There was no coordination. 11:02.030 --> 11:03.690 There was no affinity. 11:04.950 --> 11:12.630 There was in no way, in no way, there was the possibility, not even the 11:12.630 --> 11:17.890 most remote possibility, for me to be able to relate the Roman Catholic Magisterium 11:18.570 --> 11:22.430 and the Bible, or the Roman Catholic tradition and the Bible. 11:22.530 --> 11:25.530 It did not exist, no matter how much I looked for it, no matter how much I 11:25.530 --> 11:27.130 inquired about it. 11:28.470 --> 11:34.010 Hence, as the Holy Spirit guided me on this biblical journey, especially through 11:34.010 --> 11:40.090 this message, among many other messages that had to do with my conversion and 11:40.090 --> 11:44.510 salvation in Christ, this message was crucial. 11:45.290 --> 11:50.830 Because here I begin to see not only why I have to stop being a Roman Catholic, 11:51.170 --> 11:55.990 why I have to stop being a priest, but why I was a Roman Catholic. 11:57.590 --> 12:03.690 And I could not go to the other two spheres unless I knew, by the word of 12:03.690 --> 12:10.670 Christ, by the testimony of Christ in it, in the Scriptures, why I became a Roman 12:10.670 --> 12:15.870 Catholic, why you are a Roman Catholic, why the nations, the peoples, not only 12:15.870 --> 12:20.750 families, entire nations, and even entire continents, gave themselves to Roman 12:20.750 --> 12:23.590 Catholicism since 1,600 years ago. 12:24.190 --> 12:25.130 How did this happen? 12:25.530 --> 12:26.690 How did this take place? 12:27.130 --> 12:28.530 Where did it come from? 12:28.770 --> 12:35.670 Where does this experience of religious tradition and Catholic magisterium 12:35.670 --> 12:35.670 originate from? 12:36.630 --> 12:37.670 From the Bible? 12:38.150 --> 12:38.690 From the Gospel? 12:40.350 --> 12:46.470 Let us read verse 15 once more, and it says, And Jesus said to them, 12:46.850 --> 12:48.570 and to all the world. 12:49.510 --> 12:54.850 In other words, the decree already tells us that there is a territory to occupy, 12:55.190 --> 12:56.650 that there is a territory to cover. 12:57.130 --> 13:00.430 And this is not only one country, this is not Mexico, this is not Guatemala, 13:00.850 --> 13:06.430 this is not even Central America, or the Caribbean, or South America, 13:06.510 --> 13:06.950 or Spain. 13:07.650 --> 13:09.730 This is the whole world. 13:10.750 --> 13:12.630 Go for the whole world. 13:13.670 --> 13:14.550 And what to do? 13:15.450 --> 13:21.150 What to do going for that world, in need, in problems, in political, 13:21.510 --> 13:24.110 social, economic, religious, military crises? 13:24.110 --> 13:28.970 Listen carefully, when we talk about going for the whole world, we have to think that 13:28.970 --> 13:31.770 when you go for the whole world, this is what you are finding. 13:32.030 --> 13:39.510 Drugs, misery, this is what you are finding, this is what you are living. 13:40.690 --> 13:41.990 Religions of all kinds. 13:43.090 --> 13:45.250 We cannot only talk about Catholicism. 13:46.150 --> 13:52.830 After all, the same book of Apocalypse, chapters 17, 18 and 19, tells us that this 13:52.830 --> 14:01.150 same religious system, to cover its own political purpose, as the prophet Daniel 14:01.150 --> 14:07.030 enumerates and reveals it, this political system, covered by religion, is not 14:07.030 --> 14:13.910 isolated, because it becomes the mother of the abominations and fornications of the 14:13.910 --> 14:14.190 Earth. 14:14.190 --> 14:20.510 What indicates that even when we walk in this world, from one side to the other, 14:20.610 --> 14:26.330 from south to north, from east to west, we find not only with all kinds of poverty 14:26.330 --> 14:31.790 and misery, political, social, economic and moral, we find a lot of 14:31.790 --> 14:32.490 religious misery. 14:32.930 --> 14:38.470 I say tragedies, not only misery, profoundly religious tragedies. 14:39.420 --> 14:45.330 If this is the case, then, what is happening with what you are still finding? 14:45.650 --> 14:50.250 The lack of happiness, the lack of peace, the lack of tranquility, the lack of 14:50.250 --> 15:02.730 sobriety, liquor, adultery, fornication, holiness, satanism, voodoo, spiritism, 15:04.470 --> 15:11.350 communism, anarchism, socialism, name everything you want, add to the list 15:11.350 --> 15:15.590 what you have already found in your own personal experience. 15:16.670 --> 15:20.270 Contrary to all this, to this divine decree. 15:21.310 --> 15:23.530 What are we going to do with all this in the world? 15:23.830 --> 15:25.730 What news are we going to bring? 15:25.990 --> 15:30.390 What news are we going to bring to all this situation, to all this population, 15:30.570 --> 15:38.230 to all this world mass that suffers daily, every 24 hours, all the destruction with 15:38.230 --> 15:42.590 which Satan has established his rule on this planet. 15:45.130 --> 15:48.310 Jesus himself declares it and reveals it in this way. 15:49.090 --> 15:53.830 Satan, the ancient serpent, says, the prince of this world, apart from all 15:53.830 --> 15:58.650 his titles, Jesus is the first to give him the title of prince. 16:00.790 --> 16:02.850 The prince of this world. 16:04.610 --> 16:10.470 So much so that Satan himself, with such a title, but with such an office 16:10.470 --> 16:15.510 of prince, offers him to the king, to the king of kings and lord of lords, 16:15.810 --> 16:21.290 to Jesus Christ, in person, in the desert, in the temptation to which he was led. 16:22.470 --> 16:26.370 He says to him, here, finally, if I cannot win you in one way or another, 16:26.370 --> 16:30.390 I am going to offer you the greatest of all offers. 16:31.150 --> 16:35.090 I have here the kingdoms of the earth and all its glory. 16:35.330 --> 16:40.630 I give you, I offer you, I give you, with that same power that governs and 16:40.630 --> 16:41.570 dominates them. 16:41.730 --> 16:46.990 He says, I give you all the kingdoms of the earth and its glory, if you worship 16:46.990 --> 16:48.370 me. 16:52.630 --> 16:54.310 Certainly, the offer did not work. 16:56.370 --> 17:07.330 But it worked, Jesus, who obtained victory over him, for us, for you and for myself. 17:08.810 --> 17:15.970 He says, stay away from me, Satan, because you will worship the Lord your God 17:15.970 --> 17:19.610 and you will serve only Him. 17:20.950 --> 17:23.970 Why did I become a Catholic? 17:25.110 --> 17:33.190 It begins to be known, from the moment we know that Satan, as the prince of this 17:33.190 --> 17:39.190 world, not only possesses the governments, possesses the glory of these governments, 17:39.610 --> 17:46.910 but then we know that in this relationship, the religion, the religious 17:46.910 --> 17:50.430 traditions, seek the human favor, there is no doubt. 17:50.850 --> 17:56.510 And in relation to that same context, God himself is speaking. 17:57.830 --> 18:04.750 He is rebelling, he is molesting, he is suggesting, he is exhorting and he 18:04.750 --> 18:06.410 is calling and he is inviting. 18:07.430 --> 18:08.910 In that relationship, 18:13.620 --> 18:16.900 the glory and the governments of this world. 18:18.240 --> 18:26.480 How much eagerness is displayed in the religious tradition everywhere, 18:27.400 --> 18:31.840 in the sense of popularity and political favors. 18:35.180 --> 18:42.680 In response to this, we see that religion, in its traditional effort, seeks, 18:43.000 --> 18:48.460 does not have to offer, on the contrary, seeks in human misery, in human misery, 18:48.780 --> 18:55.040 as Satan himself offers Christ, seeks in human misery, in human waste, 18:55.740 --> 19:04.300 seeks his seat, seeks his coexistence, seeks his own inclusive experience. 19:06.640 --> 19:10.440 He does not offer anything because he has nothing, he cannot offer anything. 19:11.780 --> 19:16.560 By staying at the margin of the Gospel, as I stayed at the margin of the Gospel, 19:17.080 --> 19:19.440 since my parents baptized me. 19:20.440 --> 19:24.680 In other words, I was not taken to the Gospel, I was taken to baptism. 19:25.200 --> 19:30.880 Let us understand well the order, how a creature begins to be Roman 19:30.880 --> 19:33.380 Catholic, not because of the Gospel. 19:36.320 --> 19:41.980 My parents, as Spanish and Roman Catholics, did not receive the Gospel. 19:45.340 --> 19:52.260 What they received is, by the conduct of human misery itself, and of human 19:52.260 --> 19:56.300 sufferings, the product of that very thing. 19:58.280 --> 20:02.940 They received everything that is contrary to the hope of eternal life and eternal 20:02.940 --> 20:03.460 life. 20:03.940 --> 20:08.880 They received everything that is contrary to human redemption and to the remission 20:08.880 --> 20:10.340 of their own sins. 20:10.880 --> 20:16.140 They received an entertainment of death and of eternal death. 20:16.840 --> 20:23.180 There is no possibility that it can be, and this was my own personal conflict, 20:23.620 --> 20:29.980 that it can be related to what religion promises and what the Gospel grants. 20:30.220 --> 20:35.860 In other words, when we talk about what religion promises, we are talking now in 20:35.860 --> 20:38.300 relation to what the Gospel offers. 20:39.560 --> 20:41.400 Religion has many promises. 20:42.460 --> 20:47.460 Even more, since I was baptized as a child in the state of innocence, I was already 20:47.460 --> 20:50.840 promised that I would be a Christian. 20:51.040 --> 20:55.580 In other words, that I was already in that process of being a Christian. 20:55.740 --> 20:57.160 I did not know what was happening. 20:57.840 --> 20:59.220 I did not know what they were telling me. 20:59.620 --> 21:03.380 I did not know what they were practicing on my body in the state of innocence. 21:04.620 --> 21:09.640 No creature knows this in the state of innocence, when they are called to be 21:09.640 --> 21:11.500 exorcised and baptized. 21:11.760 --> 21:12.480 And you say, how? 21:12.900 --> 21:15.340 Exorcised and baptized. 21:15.780 --> 21:19.580 By the priest who receives them in the pillar of baptism. 21:20.940 --> 21:25.280 Let us come to the Gospel once more, as the Holy Spirit himself brought me on 21:25.280 --> 21:26.280 this same day. 21:26.620 --> 21:29.560 I am going to take you step by step. 21:29.560 --> 21:30.900 It says in this way. 21:31.840 --> 21:34.960 And Jesus said to them, go all over the world. 21:35.900 --> 21:40.100 Now, the action of what is going to be done in the world, of what is going to be 21:40.100 --> 21:43.780 given to the world, of what is going to be declared to the world, of what is going to 21:43.780 --> 21:45.400 be offered to the world. 21:45.520 --> 21:47.060 It says, and preach. 21:49.020 --> 21:49.620 Oh, oh. 21:50.160 --> 21:53.660 So it is not, go all over the world and be baptized. 21:54.140 --> 21:57.660 No, it is, go all over the world and preach. 21:57.660 --> 21:58.000 Preach. 21:59.310 --> 21:59.700 Preach. 22:00.160 --> 22:00.940 Preach. 22:01.380 --> 22:04.020 Preach the Gospel. 22:07.760 --> 22:08.880 What an offer. 22:11.830 --> 22:12.760 And what a promise. 22:14.990 --> 22:20.220 Because since the announcement of the preaching of the Gospel, there is already 22:20.220 --> 22:20.740 a promise. 22:21.120 --> 22:26.600 It says, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. 22:27.780 --> 22:32.100 The same Holy Spirit reflects in the epistle of the Apostle Paul to the 22:32.100 --> 22:36.360 believers in Rome, in the city of Rome, which has nothing to do with the Vatican 22:36.360 --> 22:41.660 in Rome, which has nothing to do with the Roman Catholicism, originated in Rome in 22:41.660 --> 22:44.960 the third century, under the great emperor Constantine. 22:45.460 --> 22:50.120 This was the first Christian church established in the city of Rome, 22:50.360 --> 22:54.860 in the Roman imperial city, in the capital city, in Rome. 22:54.860 --> 22:57.860 And that epistle, that letter, comes with that announcement. 22:58.080 --> 23:01.580 It says from the first chapter, in that letter, the Apostle Paul, 23:01.840 --> 23:05.000 because I am not ashamed of what? 23:05.320 --> 23:05.960 Any tradition? 23:07.380 --> 23:10.820 You have to be ashamed of many traditions, I would say, of all. 23:12.560 --> 23:15.440 However, the Holy Spirit goes in another direction. 23:16.000 --> 23:23.160 Above all tradition, even contrary to all religious tradition, not only Catholic, 23:23.160 --> 23:28.400 even Judaic, at that time, in that moment, in that circumstance, against all 23:28.400 --> 23:34.840 religion, including paganism, against all religious tradition, the Apostle Paul 23:34.840 --> 23:39.720 declares, already from the introduction of that letter to the church, I am not 23:39.720 --> 23:42.260 ashamed of the Gospel. 23:43.380 --> 23:44.100 Why? 23:45.000 --> 23:50.240 What is the reason, what is the cause, that there is no possibility, not even the 23:50.240 --> 23:55.280 most remote possibility, that a human being can ever be ashamed of the Gospel? 23:56.440 --> 23:57.620 I say, it will not exist. 23:58.620 --> 24:01.460 Man will look for it, but he will not find it. 24:01.840 --> 24:06.200 There will be no possibility, there will be no reason, there will be no cause, 24:07.160 --> 24:11.520 that can be said for which I am ashamed of the Gospel. 24:12.060 --> 24:12.440 Never. 24:13.060 --> 24:17.680 What the Gospel operates, what the Gospel produces, what the Gospel offers, 24:17.680 --> 24:24.760 what the Gospel has as hope and reality, of that, there is nothing that a single 24:24.760 --> 24:27.380 human being can be ashamed of. 24:29.160 --> 24:32.810 I am not ashamed of the Gospel, because it is God's power. 24:33.700 --> 24:38.500 This is the Gospel that Christ gives to his apostles, of which they themselves 24:38.500 --> 24:43.020 knew that they never had anything to be ashamed of. 24:43.240 --> 24:45.300 But they had a lot to be ashamed of. 24:45.300 --> 24:49.240 They themselves, being Jews, had a lot to be ashamed of. 24:49.380 --> 24:51.160 They had a lot to be ashamed of. 24:51.340 --> 24:54.980 In the face of Christ, in the face of his doctrine, in the face of his teachings, 24:55.500 --> 25:00.680 in the face of his person, in the face of his love, they had and had to be ashamed 25:00.680 --> 25:00.980 of. 25:01.820 --> 25:06.920 Their own religious traditions, which prevented them, until the moment 25:06.920 --> 25:10.720 they were convicted of the Holy Spirit, and they did not reject the conviction, 25:11.280 --> 25:14.460 until that moment, they had a lot to be ashamed of. 25:15.300 --> 25:23.940 Peter, John, Matthew, Luke, all of them, had a lot to be ashamed of. 25:24.400 --> 25:30.660 When they depended, before believing the word of Christ and the person of Christ, 25:30.880 --> 25:37.120 when they had to depend on the religious tradition, which prevented them from 25:37.120 --> 25:40.240 knowing the one they needed as Savior. 25:43.280 --> 25:49.820 And all over the world, in that same epistle, the same apostle declares, 25:51.200 --> 25:59.160 I am not ashamed of the Gospel because it is the power of God for salvation to all 25:59.160 --> 26:00.140 who believe. 26:02.040 --> 26:07.260 And in chapter 10 of that same letter, he begins to say, but how will they 26:07.260 --> 26:09.080 believe if there is no one to preach to them? 26:10.740 --> 26:13.460 How will they believe if there is no one to preach to them? 26:13.580 --> 26:22.120 Not only that, but how will it be possible for someone to hear if there is no one to 26:22.120 --> 26:23.420 go to preach? 26:26.860 --> 26:32.100 Well, the scripture says, Preach the Gospel to every creature. 26:32.260 --> 26:36.960 In other words, not to the masses, but simply to every creature. 26:37.240 --> 26:40.880 To every creature, individually and personally. 26:45.240 --> 26:49.340 Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. 26:50.900 --> 26:57.120 When I was told, and I was given the first news, that I was already a Catholic by 26:57.120 --> 26:59.560 reason, my parents were the first. 26:59.680 --> 27:05.720 When I knew I was Catholic, it happened because my parents told me so. 27:05.900 --> 27:12.240 In other words, I was surrounded by a situation where I myself had many 27:12.240 --> 27:13.280 questions to ask. 27:13.620 --> 27:19.980 Already at a certain age, even before going to the seminary to pass my studies 27:19.980 --> 27:20.820 to the priesthood. 27:20.820 --> 27:25.000 Many questions began to arise in my mind. 27:25.600 --> 27:26.940 But I had no answer. 27:28.720 --> 27:31.240 Why did I become a Roman Catholic? 27:32.220 --> 27:35.980 Would it be as a consequence of the preaching of this Gospel? 27:36.180 --> 27:40.960 Would it be as a consequence of this decree of Christ given to his apostles, 27:41.260 --> 27:46.780 transmitted to his church from Jerusalem to Judea, Samaria, and to the end of the 27:46.780 --> 27:47.080 earth? 27:47.080 --> 27:50.860 In other words, would it be as a consequence of all this preaching, 27:51.300 --> 27:55.120 of this Gospel, that I became a Roman Catholic? 27:55.720 --> 27:57.520 That you became a Catholic? 27:57.700 --> 27:59.140 That you are a Catholic? 27:59.920 --> 28:02.220 Is it as a consequence of this decree? 28:02.840 --> 28:06.940 That the Catholics, the human beings, became Catholics? 28:07.180 --> 28:11.820 The countries, the families, and the priests became priests? 28:12.060 --> 28:13.720 Or the men became priests? 28:13.920 --> 28:15.700 The women became nuns? 28:15.700 --> 28:18.080 And bishops, and cardinals, and popes? 28:18.240 --> 28:24.500 Would all this be as a consequence of this decree from Christ to his apostles, 28:24.600 --> 28:26.820 that all this came to happen? 28:27.100 --> 28:27.860 Is it true? 28:28.560 --> 28:29.360 Is this true? 28:30.640 --> 28:36.240 Let us come again, as I had to return to Scripture, to hear it, to hear it, 28:36.440 --> 28:39.500 and to hear it again, and to hear it again, and to hear it again. 28:39.500 --> 28:44.500 And all over the world, preach the Gospel. 28:48.120 --> 28:52.240 Let us do the first test, as the Holy Spirit put it to me. 28:52.620 --> 28:53.520 The first test. 28:53.940 --> 28:55.580 Mark chapter 10. 28:55.940 --> 29:01.220 And at this time, to find out the identity of my own Catholic experience, 29:01.680 --> 29:04.960 of my own Catholic faith, of my own Catholic religion. 29:04.960 --> 29:11.000 To find out, to search, wanting to find that identity, that experience, 29:11.240 --> 29:16.520 that faith, that religion, on the pages of Scripture, on the pages of the Gospel. 29:17.060 --> 29:20.200 I was led by the Holy Spirit to Mark chapter 10. 29:20.800 --> 29:22.940 In the same direction that you were led. 29:23.560 --> 29:24.860 Mark chapter 10. 29:25.560 --> 29:29.380 And in this Holy Gospel we read in verse 13, in this way. 29:29.380 --> 29:33.660 And they presented to him children, so that he might touch them. 29:34.780 --> 29:38.660 And the disciples reigned over those who presented them. 29:38.960 --> 29:44.160 In other words, the disciples were surrounded by a multitude of women, 29:44.420 --> 29:51.860 who brought their children, their daughters, so that Jesus himself might 29:51.860 --> 29:55.000 touch them, when presenting them to him. 29:56.320 --> 29:57.800 The disciples opposed. 29:57.800 --> 29:58.000 They resisted. 29:58.660 --> 30:01.660 And there is no doubt that this was not pleasant for Christ. 30:02.360 --> 30:06.600 That opposition on the part of his disciples, to prevent those mothers from 30:06.600 --> 30:09.220 bringing their children to him, was not pleasant, I repeat. 30:10.840 --> 30:13.800 We speak of preventing, we speak of preventing. 30:13.980 --> 30:18.040 This word is very important, it was crucial in my own conversion. 30:18.440 --> 30:18.840 See why. 30:19.840 --> 30:23.040 As a Jesuit priest, would I be preventing? 30:23.780 --> 30:27.020 As a priest, would I be preventing? 30:27.800 --> 30:29.780 And not as a priest, but as a Catholic. 30:30.060 --> 30:36.260 As a Catholic, would you be preventing your own children to come to Christ? 30:37.260 --> 30:38.440 To come to Jesus? 30:39.320 --> 30:41.600 Would someone be preventing you? 30:42.580 --> 30:44.940 Would someone, religiously? 30:45.060 --> 30:48.700 I no longer speak politically, economically, or militarily. 30:49.080 --> 30:51.020 No, no, no, not by force of the weapons. 30:51.300 --> 30:55.900 By force of religious persuasion, of teaching, of religious education. 30:55.900 --> 31:01.900 Would someone, religiously, be preventing, at this moment, at this time, in their 31:01.900 --> 31:07.160 life, in their country, in their nation, in their home, would someone be preventing 31:07.160 --> 31:10.680 those children of theirs to come to Christ? 31:11.620 --> 31:13.040 To know Christ? 31:13.980 --> 31:15.280 And to remain in Christ? 31:18.600 --> 31:19.940 Listen to the word. 31:20.780 --> 31:25.900 It says, And they presented children to him that he might touch them, and the 31:25.900 --> 31:29.420 disciples reigned over those who presented them. 31:29.640 --> 31:37.200 And seeing this, Jesus became angry, and said to them, Let the children come, 31:37.700 --> 31:40.080 and do not hinder them. 31:40.620 --> 31:41.380 Prevention. 31:42.040 --> 31:45.520 In other words, what is happening here? 31:45.520 --> 31:53.320 They are hindering the process, through which God himself, in his divine 31:53.320 --> 31:58.320 plan, has revealed Jesus, has prophesied of Jesus, of the child Jesus. 31:58.660 --> 32:00.080 The prophets already spoke. 32:01.400 --> 32:05.380 And here the Virgin will conceive, and will give birth to a son, and will 32:05.380 --> 32:07.500 call his name Jesus. 32:08.080 --> 32:15.460 Because he, that child, already has the same name, the same title, already has the 32:15.460 --> 32:18.000 message, and the promise. 32:18.740 --> 32:23.320 Jesus, that means, savior of his people. 32:23.720 --> 32:26.490 Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. 32:27.280 --> 32:27.860 Jesus. 32:28.520 --> 32:30.620 Jesus is not a simple name. 32:30.980 --> 32:36.480 He carries, implies, brings with him, a message, a promise. 32:39.340 --> 32:44.460 Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins. 32:44.880 --> 32:48.760 Jesus, that he will not come to leave his people in their sins. 32:49.500 --> 32:52.580 Jesus, that he will not see his people be condemned. 32:53.240 --> 32:58.580 Jesus, that he did not come to judge his people, that he did not come to condemn 32:58.580 --> 32:58.780 them. 32:58.780 --> 33:04.780 Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins, from their condemnation, 33:05.140 --> 33:08.200 from their judgment, and from their eternal death. 33:08.800 --> 33:09.260 Jesus. 33:10.580 --> 33:12.040 This is the Gospel. 33:13.280 --> 33:20.680 In other words, we are confronting here impediments to the Gospel, through 33:20.680 --> 33:22.120 extraordinary religious arts. 33:23.340 --> 33:24.100 It is a paradox. 33:24.100 --> 33:25.900 The paradox was already for me. 33:26.320 --> 33:29.260 My conscience did not resist it anymore. 33:29.920 --> 33:33.280 The paradox was too big for my conscience to overcome. 33:34.820 --> 33:40.800 That I myself, as a priest, that I myself, as a Catholic, could be an impediment, 33:40.940 --> 33:48.760 a hindrance, even to the creatures that are born, so that they reach Christ when 33:48.760 --> 33:50.120 they need to reach him. 33:51.620 --> 33:54.580 And the hindrance comes quickly. 33:56.100 --> 34:01.120 The hindrance and the impediment are very early at the door of human existence. 34:02.300 --> 34:05.020 Already in a creature in a state of innocence. 34:05.700 --> 34:10.500 It is said by concept of religion, to make it Catholic, that it has to be 34:10.500 --> 34:15.260 exorcised and exorcised, that child, that girl, in a state of innocence, 34:15.740 --> 34:21.120 without reason, that they must be baptized unless they go to limbo. 34:22.280 --> 34:23.900 If they are not exorcised and baptized. 34:25.080 --> 34:28.860 Let's start with this impediment. 34:29.260 --> 34:30.040 Where is it? 34:30.160 --> 34:31.500 What is it? 34:31.500 --> 34:32.580 First, exorcism. 34:35.820 --> 34:42.260 We already see that exorcism, after all, is not the impediment itself, but it is 34:42.260 --> 34:44.140 the individual who practices it. 34:44.140 --> 34:48.440 It is the one who impedes it, it is the one who hinders it, as in the case of my 34:48.440 --> 34:50.740 own personal experience as a priest. 34:51.340 --> 34:57.940 I was the one who impeded and the one who hindered, because of my ignorance of the 34:57.940 --> 35:03.400 Gospel and because I did not believe it, because of my own disbelief in the Gospel, 35:04.040 --> 35:10.380 as a priest, because I did not believe this same promise of faith that I impeded, 35:10.380 --> 35:17.120 and I hindered thousands and thousands of children to come to Christ. 35:23.020 --> 35:28.360 And they presented children for Him to touch them, and the disciples rebuked 35:28.360 --> 35:33.340 those who presented them, and seeing this, Jesus became angry and said to them, 35:33.460 --> 35:43.800 let the children come, and do not hinder them, because of such is the Kingdom of 35:43.800 --> 35:44.180 God. 35:46.540 --> 35:52.040 In other words, could there not only be a better promise than this one, but could 35:52.040 --> 35:54.580 there be a better guarantee and security? 35:55.440 --> 35:56.320 Who can offer it? 35:57.360 --> 36:02.360 Even the sacrament of baptism can offer it, the sacrament of Confirmation can 36:02.360 --> 36:06.540 offer it, the sacrament of Penance can offer it, the sacrament of Mass can offer 36:06.540 --> 36:12.360 it, even the sacrament of the religious orders can offer it, the sacrament of 36:12.360 --> 36:14.980 marriage can offer it, the sacrament of extramarital affairs can offer it, 36:15.080 --> 36:19.480 not only some of these sacraments, but all of them together, they can, 36:19.720 --> 36:25.880 all of them together, they can certify, guarantee, give this promise to a single 36:25.880 --> 36:26.400 human being. 36:26.620 --> 36:26.960 Can they? 36:28.600 --> 36:30.060 Listen to what Jesus says. 36:30.540 --> 36:34.140 I had to listen to it, and listen to it again, until I believed it. 36:35.100 --> 36:38.200 To me, religiously, it was impossible to believe it. 36:38.360 --> 36:40.620 To me, a religious person, 36:45.100 --> 36:48.320 because of such people, will the Kingdom of Heaven be? 36:48.420 --> 36:48.940 No! 36:50.440 --> 36:58.700 Christianity does not deal with undefined promises, Christianity deals with defined 36:58.700 --> 37:02.640 promises, secure, eternal, and to the present. 37:05.060 --> 37:09.640 Religion has many promises of the present, but which are they? 37:10.600 --> 37:10.980 Undefined. 37:12.140 --> 37:15.400 You are going to be saved one day, you don't know when. 37:16.520 --> 37:23.880 Here, Jesus goes ahead, even to time, to age, to reason, and says to these 37:23.880 --> 37:32.780 children, they are co-heirs with me of the Kingdom of God, they are the heirs of such 37:32.780 --> 37:37.000 people, they are the owners of such people, it is the Kingdom of Heaven. 37:37.600 --> 37:37.920 Now. 37:41.260 --> 37:42.720 Through what process? 37:44.180 --> 37:45.880 What did they have to do? 37:46.160 --> 37:47.360 What did they have to do? 37:47.700 --> 37:48.820 What did they have to do? 37:49.000 --> 37:55.380 What did they have to do, those children, to become heirs of the Kingdom of God? 37:55.400 --> 37:56.200 What did they have to do? 37:56.420 --> 37:57.800 The parents, the family. 37:59.900 --> 38:04.060 What did Jesus do with them, to make them heirs of the Kingdom of God? 38:04.200 --> 38:04.980 What did he do with them? 38:06.260 --> 38:11.340 It is extraordinary, that Jesus, after giving them not only the promise, 38:11.440 --> 38:16.240 but the guarantee of the promise, did these things that we are going to 38:16.240 --> 38:19.360 read, we are not going to invent them, we are not going to think about them, 38:19.520 --> 38:23.380 we are not going to imagine them, we are going to read and believe them. 38:25.020 --> 38:31.560 That was my blessing, when I began to believe what I read, what I repeated, 38:32.040 --> 38:36.140 and what I knew even by heart, by heart, as a priest. 38:36.920 --> 38:39.080 But I did not believe it yet. 38:45.360 --> 38:49.640 I tell you for a fact, says verse 15, of chapter 10 of the Gospel of Mark, 38:49.920 --> 38:54.680 I tell you for a fact, that whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God as a child, 38:55.800 --> 38:59.940 will not enter in Him, in the Kingdom of God. 39:00.940 --> 39:06.640 And taking them in his arms, see what he does first, taking them in his arms, 39:07.280 --> 39:13.300 to still reinforce that security of the promise already given, granted. 39:15.480 --> 39:21.140 And taking them in his arms, if these children had been full of evil spirits and 39:21.140 --> 39:25.280 demons, as I believed as a priest, that the child had to be exorcised, 39:25.280 --> 39:30.680 and as he prays according to the canonical right for all priests and for all the 39:30.680 --> 39:35.760 Catholic religious people around the world, in the whole world, not only among 39:35.760 --> 39:38.320 us, the Hispanics, in the whole world. 39:40.960 --> 39:47.660 It is clear and determined that in order to be Catholic, that child had to be 39:47.660 --> 39:51.800 exorcised, because he begins to be Catholic when he is baptized. 39:52.140 --> 39:55.260 And he cannot be baptized without being exorcised. 39:55.280 --> 40:01.100 Because he declares the same religious tradition, he declares that this child is 40:01.100 --> 40:05.300 full of evil spirits, he is full of demons since he was born. 40:06.620 --> 40:12.420 And then the priest needs to exorcise him to take out the evil spirits, to take out 40:12.420 --> 40:17.200 the demons from this innocent child, from this innocent child, that Christ 40:17.200 --> 40:19.820 already gave them the kingdom of God. 40:20.680 --> 40:26.740 And the priest denies it and prevents it and hinders it. 40:32.520 --> 40:38.300 I tell you that the one who does not receive the kingdom of God as a child will 40:38.300 --> 40:41.780 not enter into it by taking them in his arms. 40:43.060 --> 40:46.100 Second, he put his hands on them. 40:46.440 --> 40:49.160 Third, he blessed them. 40:49.880 --> 40:50.400 Hallelujah! 40:51.120 --> 40:51.640 Hallelujah! 40:52.580 --> 40:57.280 How much transcendence in this teaching! 40:57.280 --> 41:02.040 It transcends, it transcends from the innocent to the adult. 41:02.220 --> 41:04.800 Because even this analogy is made by Jesus. 41:05.140 --> 41:14.260 He says, if you do not return as children, you adults, you, unless you return as 41:14.260 --> 41:18.220 children, you will not enter into the kingdom of God. 41:19.860 --> 41:27.720 Nor can we, among the adults who received the same glorious experience as Nicodemus, 41:27.800 --> 41:28.840 did the same. 41:30.020 --> 41:33.360 And Jesus did the praise of this promise to Nicodemus. 41:34.040 --> 41:38.860 Since he saw him, he saw him as a needed man even though he was so devoted, 41:39.200 --> 41:45.260 so religious, so pious, not painful, but so educated religiously. 41:45.480 --> 41:48.620 He was a teacher, a teacher 41:58.100 --> 41:59.380 who taught is necessary. 42:00.020 --> 42:04.320 It is not that if you want or you don't want, it is not that it is a matter to 42:04.320 --> 42:07.000 debate it, to discuss it or to give an opinion about it. 42:07.320 --> 42:08.940 No, it is necessary. 42:11.040 --> 42:15.740 It is true that you will have many things to object about, many things to give an 42:15.740 --> 42:20.220 opinion, many things to confront, There are many things to discuss and 42:20.220 --> 42:24.480 perhaps even dialogue in a more human and psychological way. 42:24.760 --> 42:26.560 But none of this is worth it. 42:27.620 --> 42:30.940 His first need is for Christ. 42:31.740 --> 42:36.400 His first need, above all else, is to be saved. 42:39.400 --> 42:44.620 And the question should be how to become a Christian, not how to become a Catholic. 42:44.620 --> 42:49.700 Because we are seeing that there is an absolute disparity between how to become a 42:49.700 --> 42:52.000 Catholic and how to become a Christian. 42:55.180 --> 43:01.120 Jesus went ahead of that dilemma, so that we do not have any confusion. 43:03.560 --> 43:13.020 The Lord clearly says that he put his hands on them and blessed them. 43:13.940 --> 43:18.840 And of course, when this happens to a child, this is what he was telling 43:18.840 --> 43:20.260 Nicodemus that was going to happen to him. 43:21.700 --> 43:23.880 Nicodemus was going to be taken in his arms. 43:24.520 --> 43:34.740 Nicodemus was going to put the hands of Christ on him, because he puts his hands 43:34.740 --> 43:35.300 on us. 43:35.380 --> 43:39.060 Once he takes us in his arms, he puts his hands on us. 43:39.340 --> 43:41.340 It is true how he was crucified. 43:42.040 --> 43:44.340 The fact of how he was crucified does not go unnoticed. 43:44.340 --> 43:53.460 His hands extended, waiting to receive, as he said in physical life, come to me 43:53.460 --> 43:58.580 all of you who are charged and worked, that I will make you rest. 44:00.120 --> 44:01.140 Listen to me well. 44:02.480 --> 44:06.740 The one who comes to me, says Jesus, I have not thrown him out. 44:07.780 --> 44:13.320 And how much my soul aspired to reach that moment, to reach that meeting, 44:13.320 --> 44:21.020 where I was going to find tranquility, peace, security, salvation and eternal 44:21.020 --> 44:24.040 life, under the remission of my sins. 44:25.120 --> 44:28.160 Listen well to how this began with Nicodemus. 44:28.380 --> 44:30.640 He says to you, it is necessary to be born again. 44:32.940 --> 44:37.420 Do you identify something of this with the experience of having become Catholic? 44:38.120 --> 44:40.980 See how one began and how the other began. 44:44.260 --> 44:51.380 From there, Jesus said to his apostles, go around the world and exorcise children. 44:52.100 --> 44:53.380 That's it. 44:53.480 --> 44:55.500 Go around the world and baptize children. 44:56.220 --> 44:58.340 Go around the world and celebrate Mass. 44:58.940 --> 45:00.700 Go around the world and do penance. 45:01.540 --> 45:07.760 Go around the world and celebrate the apparitions of Guadalupe, of Lourdes, 45:07.880 --> 45:08.480 of Fatima. 45:08.480 --> 45:12.100 Go around the world and do what? 45:12.260 --> 45:13.660 To the world in need. 45:14.200 --> 45:15.380 And offer what? 45:15.760 --> 45:20.400 To the world in misfortune and misery, and in sin and transgression. 45:20.800 --> 45:21.220 What? 45:21.420 --> 45:24.100 What are we going to give to this world? 45:24.780 --> 45:25.620 Exorcism? 45:26.300 --> 45:26.980 Baptism? 45:28.520 --> 45:30.240 Or the Gospel? 45:31.260 --> 45:35.480 So that whoever believes it can be baptized. 45:36.760 --> 45:37.060 Amen? 45:38.480 --> 45:39.340 Glory to God. 45:39.680 --> 45:40.280 Listen to me. 45:41.200 --> 45:45.680 How much disparity, how much difference, from night to day. 45:46.300 --> 45:51.780 My soul was alarmed when I began to understand, when I began to understand, 45:52.200 --> 45:53.520 when I began to believe. 45:54.920 --> 45:56.420 Not only the truth. 45:56.420 --> 46:03.740 But now I began to make known to the Lord by the truth, the deception, the lie, 46:04.240 --> 46:11.740 the betrayal, and the perversion that the Gospel of him has been doing in the course 46:11.740 --> 46:12.840 of the centuries. 46:14.300 --> 46:14.840 Listen. 46:15.320 --> 46:20.480 We are going to give a reading once again to this passage of the Gospel of Mark, 46:20.740 --> 46:21.680 chapter 16. 46:22.420 --> 46:25.120 Preparing us for this very special invitation. 46:25.120 --> 46:26.480 Listen to me carefully. 46:28.180 --> 46:34.900 And he said to them, and to all the world, to preach the Gospel to every creature. 46:35.700 --> 46:43.400 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will 46:43.400 --> 46:44.440 be condemned. 46:46.220 --> 46:52.240 Of the three things that Jesus did to the children, and even of what he said to 46:52.240 --> 46:57.660 Nicodemus, in no way do we see that neither with children nor with adults, 46:58.060 --> 47:02.780 Jesus neither exorcised them, nor did he exorcise the others. 47:02.960 --> 47:07.520 Nor did he baptize them, nor did he baptize the others, without believing the 47:07.520 --> 47:07.980 Gospel. 47:10.640 --> 47:16.380 Now we better understand the order in which these things correspond. 47:17.080 --> 47:19.140 My soul was being pierced. 47:19.140 --> 47:25.320 I already felt that not only tears were running from my eyes, physically, 47:25.780 --> 47:26.260 literally. 47:27.100 --> 47:29.520 But there were tears of the heart. 47:29.960 --> 47:35.500 There was something that told me and made me feel that I was not only crying, 47:36.940 --> 47:42.480 in spite of the consolation, in spite of the promise, in spite of the offer. 47:43.780 --> 47:50.500 My heart began to cry, but it cried with joy, no longer with sorrow, because when I 47:50.500 --> 47:54.820 cried with sorrow, it was because I saw myself far from all this reality that the 47:54.820 --> 47:56.180 Gospel offered me. 47:57.040 --> 48:03.400 When I begin to approach, because I begin to give in to the conviction of the Holy 48:03.400 --> 48:08.260 Spirit, and to believe in Christ, in the person of Christ, in the sacrifice 48:08.260 --> 48:13.980 of Christ, in the blood of Jesus Christ, when I begin to believe in the power, 48:14.440 --> 48:22.440 in the effect of that redemptive blood, which began to fall on my sins and 48:22.440 --> 48:27.240 transgressions from Golgotha, there on the cross. 48:27.440 --> 48:34.120 It is then when I begin to see that now my hope, which seemed to be so far, 48:34.540 --> 48:41.540 so far from being fulfilled, from being realized, well, I even made my will as a 48:41.540 --> 48:47.860 priest, imploring in my will that mass should be made, of suffrage for my soul, 48:48.120 --> 48:51.220 for the years that had to pass, perhaps, in purgatory. 48:51.700 --> 48:59.000 And I already had in my will, pointed out, the necessary money, even, to pay mass 48:59.000 --> 48:59.480 first. 49:03.760 --> 49:10.320 All this fraud to my soul, and mockery of Satan to my conscience, began to cease 49:10.320 --> 49:16.980 from the moment I began to approach, and to receive by the word that I read, 49:17.660 --> 49:21.920 that I had memorized, that I had recited as a priest, but that I could not believe, 49:21.920 --> 49:24.860 I was prevented from believing it. 49:27.140 --> 49:31.240 Now, I heard again to Jesus, Come nearer. 49:31.940 --> 49:36.780 And the demons that were in me, as it happened in Gadarene, already began 49:36.780 --> 49:40.220 to give in, because Jesus was too close to resist him. 49:40.420 --> 49:45.400 They could not resist him, and began to evacuate, and began to ask, even, 49:45.600 --> 49:49.560 please let me go here or there, because Jesus was still approaching. 49:49.560 --> 49:52.920 I was believing his word. 49:55.140 --> 50:01.780 He who believes, and is baptized, will be saved, but he who does not 50:01.780 --> 50:04.080 believe, will be condemned. 50:07.180 --> 50:12.940 With how much guarantee, the Lord is pronounced, that even enumerates what had 50:12.940 --> 50:18.520 to happen from the moment that in an act of faith, this promise was believed, 50:18.920 --> 50:22.900 in an act of repentance was received, because it already enumerates, 50:23.200 --> 50:28.060 even from verse 17 to 20, all the signs, even that they were going to follow, 50:28.060 --> 50:34.880 not only those who believed his gospel, his promise of salvation, but they were 50:34.880 --> 50:42.340 also going to follow the word preached, the written word, to confirm that 50:42.340 --> 50:46.860 manifestation of love, of grace, and of forgiveness. 50:50.380 --> 50:51.880 Erzosism and baptism. 50:53.040 --> 51:00.040 Certainly the priest uses water for baptism, but he also uses other elements 51:00.040 --> 51:04.120 that many fathers have not been able to identify in the Holy Scriptures, 51:04.480 --> 51:05.140 and it is not possible. 51:06.120 --> 51:13.680 Just as I could not identify from erzosism to Catholic baptism, no one can identify 51:13.680 --> 51:17.480 by these means with the gospel of Jesus Christ. 51:19.220 --> 51:25.880 Tragedy, pain, a lot of pain, because it is what you believed you identified with 51:25.880 --> 51:26.480 Christ. 51:26.660 --> 51:31.200 Even more, they told us that the same sacrament of baptism was already that 51:31.200 --> 51:37.340 heritage, that the blood of Christ was already upon us. 51:37.840 --> 51:40.200 The blood of Christ was already upon us. 51:41.200 --> 51:42.800 However, quite the opposite. 51:44.940 --> 51:48.760 In fact, we were under a promise that we ignored, because in the state of 51:48.760 --> 51:53.680 innocence, not only the priest ignored it in the state of reason, and the religious 51:53.680 --> 51:56.680 people ignored it in the state of reason, but the child in the state of innocence 51:56.680 --> 52:00.440 was already under the promise of Christ. 52:00.440 --> 52:05.580 Be it Catholic, be it Mahometan, be it Buddhist, be it Hindu, be it 52:05.580 --> 52:13.180 Satanist, wherever that child is born, in the state of innocence, he is already a 52:13.180 --> 52:15.100 heir to Christ if he dies. 52:15.700 --> 52:20.260 It does not matter what religion he is, it does not matter in what religion he was 52:20.260 --> 52:25.400 educated, it does not matter in what precepts of liturgy he was taught, 52:25.740 --> 52:29.400 that child is under the promise of Christ. 52:29.400 --> 52:35.860 Jesus says, of those, of those, in plural, whoever he is, born where he is 52:35.860 --> 52:40.500 born, come from whatever religion, of those, of those children in the state 52:40.500 --> 52:45.240 of innocence, he is, he is, he is, he is the Kingdom of God. 52:49.760 --> 52:56.620 Faced with this reality, I begin to see that I become Catholic not because of the 52:56.620 --> 53:01.940 Gospel, but on the contrary, because of the perversion of the Gospel. 53:02.720 --> 53:08.380 In other words, because of the perversion of the Gospel, because of the perversion 53:08.380 --> 53:12.680 of the Gospel, not because of the Gospel, see the difference, not only hear it, 53:13.080 --> 53:20.600 see it, see it as I could see it, at the time and in the need of my Savior, 53:21.420 --> 53:23.220 of my salvation. 53:23.840 --> 53:25.100 You have to see it. 53:28.820 --> 53:35.000 Certainly, and here, the promise, more the one who does not believe will be 53:35.000 --> 53:38.380 condemned, it is a promise, but it is in a negative direction. 53:39.340 --> 53:40.380 What are you going to decide? 53:40.380 --> 53:42.160 To debate the Gospel? 53:42.640 --> 53:43.540 To discuss it? 53:44.020 --> 53:45.160 To contradict it? 53:45.580 --> 53:46.960 To continue perverting it? 53:48.120 --> 53:49.460 Or to believe it? 53:51.540 --> 53:53.260 What is your position? 53:53.740 --> 53:55.900 Not pain, but what is going to be your determination? 53:56.900 --> 54:01.880 The faith is with you, already, even more, it is also a promise of the 54:01.880 --> 54:02.580 Holy Spirit. 54:02.580 --> 54:04.920 The faith comes by hearing. 54:05.240 --> 54:07.500 It was not in you, it was not with me. 54:09.040 --> 54:12.840 It comes by hearing the Word of God. 54:14.060 --> 54:19.000 This is the moment that you need to make a special decision. 54:19.380 --> 54:21.240 I say special because it is unique. 54:23.320 --> 54:28.880 The one who believes and is baptized will be saved, more the one who does not 54:28.880 --> 54:30.420 believe will be condemned. 54:31.320 --> 54:33.300 You need to take that step. 54:33.660 --> 54:35.580 You need to become a Christian. 54:36.140 --> 54:38.000 You need to become a Christian. 54:38.740 --> 54:48.260 This is why the Gospel was decreed to be preached to all creatures, so that you can 54:48.260 --> 54:54.580 be saved, can be saved, and that makes you a Christian. 54:54.580 --> 55:01.540 It is not by name, it is not by baptism, it is not by religious profession. 55:02.080 --> 55:08.260 It is because you believe in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to which Christ declared, 55:08.700 --> 55:15.600 through his apostles, that you would come to receive the faith that is now available 55:15.600 --> 55:20.920 to you, to receive it, and believe in the person, and believe in the sacrifice, 55:21.500 --> 55:24.420 and believe in the promises of Jesus Christ. 55:24.580 --> 55:28.580 The one who believes in me, says Jesus, even if he is dead, he will live, 55:29.100 --> 55:31.100 and he will live eternally. 55:32.100 --> 55:33.140 Do you believe that? 55:33.780 --> 55:34.520 Do you believe it? 55:35.480 --> 55:37.760 If so, take that step. 55:38.220 --> 55:39.160 Jesus is waiting for you. 55:39.540 --> 55:42.220 He says, here I am at the door and I call. 55:42.980 --> 55:51.480 If anyone hears and opens, I will enter him and have dinner with him, and he with 55:51.480 --> 55:51.920 me. 55:52.580 --> 55:54.540 Jesus is at the door of your heart. 55:55.040 --> 56:00.060 Everything you need, with the faith that the Holy Spirit offers you, to believe in 56:00.060 --> 56:04.820 his person, now you can come believing his Gospel to him. 56:05.280 --> 56:06.200 He is waiting for you. 56:06.760 --> 56:07.380 Do not be late. 56:08.080 --> 56:09.000 Jesus is here. 56:09.000 --> 56:14.000 Father, receive this hour, to whom now they invoke you. 56:14.240 --> 56:19.940 It is written that whoever invokes your name, the name of the Lord, will be saved. 56:20.560 --> 56:23.960 Now I give you thanks for those who already confess you. 56:24.920 --> 56:28.380 In the name of Jesus I adore you and bless you. 56:28.600 --> 56:28.940 Amen. 56:48.920 --> 56:50.900 To participate in our videos write to www .isglobal.org and follow us on Facebook, 56:50.900 --> 56:50.920 Twitter and Instagram.