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1 John 1:9

First Nations Version

If we name our broken ways, our Creator can be trusted to release us from them and purify us from all wrongdoing.

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But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we will be in harmony with each other as the lifeblood shed by Creator Sets Free (Jesus), the Son of the Great Spirit, cleanses us from all our broken ways.


Let us get a firm and steady hold on this hope we say is ours, for the one who made the promise to us can be fully trusted.


Here is a saying that you can be sure of: Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One came into this world to set bad-hearted people free from their broken ways—and I am the worst one of all.


Creator can be fully trusted for these things, for he is the one who chose you to walk side by side with Creator Sets Free (Jesus), who is the Chosen One and our Honored Chief.


Many who had chosen to follow Creator Sets Free (Jesus) came forward and admitted to their evil practices.


From the surrounding territory of the Land of Promise (Judea) and from Village of Peace (Jerusalem), all the people came to him to participate in his purification ceremony performed in the river Flowing Down (Jordan). As they came, they were admitting to their bad hearts and broken ways.


He paid the highest price to set us free from all our wrongdoings and purify for himself a people whose hearts burn with fire to do good deeds.


Some of you used to walk in these ways, but no more. You have been washed clean. You have been made holy. You have been given good standing in the eyes of the Great Spirit. All this was done through the name of our Honored Chief Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One, and by the Spirit of our Creator.


The Great Spirit will not fail to do what is right. He will not forget how hard you have worked and how much love you have shown in representing him. He sees how you have served his holy ones, in the past and even now.


They were singing the song of Creator’s servant Drawn from the Water (Moses) and the song of Creator’s Lamb. “O Great Creator and Honored One!” they sang with one voice. “All that you do is powerful and full of wonder! Your ways are right and true, O Chief of All Nations!


Because he trusted the Maker of Life, Father of Many Nations (Abraham) was able to father a child, even though his wife Noble Woman (Sarah) was barren and they were both too old. For they were sure the Great Spirit could be trusted to keep the promise he made to them.


They came admitting to their bad hearts and broken ways and participated in the purification ceremony.


He did this to give them a place of honor and dignity above all others. He washes all with the purifying water of the word he speaks over them.


He also did this to show people in this present age that he has the right to put people in good standing with himself because they trust in what Creator Sets Free (Jesus) has done.


“O Father of all that is good and right, the world does not know you, but I know you, and my followers know you sent me.


“Woman,” he denied, “I do not know the man.”





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