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1 John 3:2

First Nations Version

Much-loved friends, we are now Creator’s children. It is not yet clear what we will be. But we know that when the Chosen One appears, we will be like him, for we will see him as he truly is.

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When he appears, he will take our weak, death-doomed bodies and change them into a body like his, a body that shines with beauty and honor. For he is the one who has the power to bring all things into harmony with himself.


When the Chosen One is revealed, then you will be revealed with him and share in his beauty and honor.


So then, with uncovered faces, we are seeing the bright and shining face of our Honored Chief. This bright and shining-greatness, which shines from his face into ours, keeps changing us to be more and more like him. This is what the Spirit does for us, for he is the Spirit of our Honored Chief.


For now, it is as if we are looking at a poor reflection in muddy water, but then we will see face to face. For now, my knowledge is full of holes, but when that time comes, I will know the Great Spirit as well as I am known by him.


For he knew long ago what kind of people he would choose. He decided ahead of time to make them to be like his firstborn Son who is the Elder of the sacred family.


Just as we have worn the image of the man from the earth, we will also wear the image of the man from the spirit-world above.


They will see his face, and his name will be tattooed on their foreheads.


He has given us promises full of honor and beauty so that through them we may share the sacred nature that belongs to him and, through these promises, be set free from the evil desires that corrupt this world.


The Sacred Teachings tell us that no human being has ever seen or heard or imagined all the good things the Great Spirit has planned for the ones who love him.


Behold the greatness of the love shown to us by our Father the Great Spirit that he would call us his children! And so we are! The ones who belong to the ways of this world do not know the Giver of Life, so they do not see us in this way.


Because this is true of you, Creator has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying out from within us, “Abba! My Father!”


For it is clear to me that the suffering we now share with him is a small price to pay compared to the beauty and honor that is coming to us.


For we are all sons and daughters of the Great Spirit through our trust in Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One.


“O Great Father, I want the ones you have given to me to share this place of beauty that I have with you, so they can see the power of your love for me, a love that we shared before you created all things.


“Creator’s blessing rests on the pure of heart. They are the ones who will see the Great Spirit.


So I say again, my much-loved children, remain in harmony with him, so that when he appears we may stand boldly before him and not have to hang our heads in shame.


So the Chosen One also died once when he took on himself the bad hearts and broken ways of many people. He will appear a second time, not to die for broken ways but to set free and make whole all who keep their eyes wide open as they wait for him.


For the troubles we now face are small compared to what is coming and do not last for long. Instead, they are getting us ready for the great and shining beauty of the world to come, a beauty beyond comparison that will never fade away. So we set our minds not on the things we can see but on the things we cannot see.


All who believe that Creator Sets Free (Jesus) is the Chosen One have the Great Spirit as their Father. All who love the Father will also love his children.


This is how it will be when the True Human Being is revealed.


They will never die, for they are the children of the Great Spirit who raises them again to new life.”


But all who welcome and trust him receive their birthright as children of the Great Spirit.


he would not only die for their nation but also to gather together all of Creator’s scattered children from every nation and make them into one people.


His Spirit talks to our spirit and tells us we are his children.


The creation all around us is waiting on tiptoe for Creator’s sons and daughters to be revealed in the full beauty of who he has created them to be.


My much-loved friends, I am not giving you a new teaching but an old one, the same one you were given at first. The old teaching is the message you have heard.


There is a clear difference between Creator’s children and the children of the evil trickster. The ones who do not walk in a good way do not belong to Creator, nor do those who do not love the sacred family.


My much-loved friends, if our hearts are free from guilt, this gives us the courage to stand boldly before Creator.


This is the same right my Father has given to me. I will also gift them with the morning star.





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