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2 Corinthians 5:15

First Nations Version

He died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died and rose for them.

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Since you have been raised up to a new life with the Chosen One, then keep looking upward toward him into the spirit-world above, where he sits in the place of greatest honor at Creator’s right hand.


Every step taken and each word spoken should be done to represent our Honored Chief Creator Sets Free (Jesus), as you dance your prayers and give thanks through him to our Father the Creator.


Creator showed his love for us by sending the only Son who fully represents him into this world, so that we could live through him.


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.


Since our life comes from the Spirit, let us dance in step with the Spirit and follow the Spirit’s guidance.


So then, my sacred family members, because Creator has shown us such mercy and kindness, I now call on you to offer your whole beings, heart, mind, and strength, to the Great Spirit as a living sacrifice. Do this in a sacred and spiritual manner that will make his heart glad.


This is the reason the good story has been told to the dead. In this way, even though they were found guilty in their weak human bodies, they might still live spiritually before the Great Spirit.


He died for us so that we might live together with him, whether we remain alive until he comes or have died and walked on.


For we know that our old self was nailed to the cross with him, killing the evil desires in our bodies, so that our broken ways will not rule over us.


He has come to free us from the fear of our enemies, so we can walk all our days in his sacred and right ways.” Then he turned to his newborn son, and from deep in his spirit he spoke these words of blessing to him.


I am first and last, the Living One, who was dead, and now, behold! I am alive, never to die again. And in my hands I hold the power to free people from the Dark Underworld of Death (Hades).


So from now on we will no longer look at others through weak human eyes. Even though we used to see the Chosen One in this way, that is not how we see him now.


This is the manner in which I also walk. For I am not looking out only for my own good, but also for the good of others. I do this so they too may be set free and made whole.


Do everything from a strong heart, knowing you are serving our Creator and not weak human beings.


This is what happened when you were buried with him during your purification ceremony. You were also raised up with him through your trust in Creator’s great power that raised the Chosen One from the dead.


If we set our minds on the broken desires of our bodies, we will see only death. But if we look to the power of the Spirit, we will have life and walk the road of peace.


For the Chosen One, Creator Sets Free (Jesus), has brought the new law of the Spirit’s life to release us from the death sentence of our tribal law, given because of our bad hearts and broken ways.


In the same way the living Father sent me and gave me his life, the ones who feed on me will have my life.


I say this to you as one who represents our Honored Chief. You must no longer walk the dark path of the Nations who have chosen their own ways.


For it is Creator himself who has chosen and prepared us to tell others the meaning and purpose of his new peace treaty. This new peace treaty does not depend on written words, but in what the Spirit says. For the peace treaty written as law ended in death, but what the Spirit writes on our hearts brings life.


This is why it is said, “Wake up, O sleeper, come back from the dead, and the Chosen One will shine on you!”


So then, if the Chosen One lives in you, even though your broken human desires doom your bodies to death, the Spirit gives you life because of Creator’s power to restore you back to his right ways.


“I speak from my heart. The ones who listen to me and trust the one who sent me have the life of the world to come that never fades away. The final decision about their end has been made, for they have already crossed over from death to life.


This kind of thinking takes us nowhere! How can we who have died to our bad hearts and broken ways continue to walk that path?


We are the ones who through our wrongdoings betrayed and killed him, but his rising from the dead proves we have good standing with the Great Spirit.


That is why I can take joy in those things that show how weak I am. Others can insult me, mistreat me, hunt me down, and make things hard for me, all because of my trust in the Chosen One. For when I am weak, Creator’s strength becomes my own.





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