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Colossians 3:3

First Nations Version

You died with the Chosen One, and now your life is hidden with the Chosen One in the Great Spirit.

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“My life is no longer my own, for my life belongs to the Chosen One, who lives in me. The life I now live in my weak human body, I live by trusting in the faithfulness of the Son of the Great Spirit, who loved me and gave up his life for me.


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?


If you have died with the Chosen One to the powers and ideas that rule the ways of this world, why would you follow the kind of rules these people require?


“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.


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.


So, if the lifeblood poured out by the Chosen One has put us in good standing with the Great Spirit, then how much more will his life of beauty and harmony, which has defeated death, now set us free to walk in his ways!


The love shown to us by the Chosen One has taken hold of our hearts, because we know that if one has died for all human beings, then all of us died.


You will see the Son give life to whomever he wants and bring the dead back to life again—just like the Father does.


“The Great Spirit loves this world of human beings so deeply he gave us his Son—the only Son who fully represents him. All who trust in him and his way will not come to a bad end, but will have the life of the world to come that never fades away, full of beauty and harmony.


Soon this world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Because I will live again, you will also live.


But let your beauty shine out from who you are deep within your heart—a gentle spirit filled with peace and harmony. That kind of beauty never fades and has great value in the eyes of the Great Spirit.


“I honor you, O Great Father, Maker of earth and sky,” he prayed, “for you have hidden these things from the ones who are wise in their own eyes but have shown them to the humble of heart.


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


This means he is able to fully set free and make whole all who draw near to the Great Spirit through him, since he always lives to pray and represent them in a good way.


For the Great Spirit has hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge in the Chosen One.


Why do you refuse to come to me for this life?” The tribal leaders had heard enough! They just shook their heads and started to walk away.


“But the ones who drink the water I give will never thirst, for this water will become a river flowing from inside them, giving them the life of the world to come that never fades away, full of beauty and harmony.”


Let the one who has ears hear and do what the Spirit is saying to the sacred families. I will give the mysterious bread to the ones who win the victory. I will also give them a new name carved into a white stone. A name known only to the one who receives it.


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.


Then the peace and harmony of the Great Spirit, which goes far beyond our small and weak ways of thinking, will watch over your hearts and minds through the Chosen One, Creator Sets Free (Jesus).


It is written in our Sacred Teachings, “The first man, Red Clay (Adam), became a living being.” But the last Red Clay (Adam), the Chosen One, became a life-giving spirit.


Humans without the Spirit are not able to see the things revealed by Creator’s Spirit. These things sound foolish and are beyond their understanding, for they must be interpreted in a spiritual manner.


Our broken ways ruled over us leading to death. But the gift of Creator’s great kindness that gives us good standing with him now rules over us. This leads to the life of the world to come that never fades away, full of beauty and harmony. This is his gift to us because of what our Honored Chief Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One has done.


This love and trust come from the hope you have in Creator’s promises kept safe for you in the spirit-world above. It is the same hope you heard about when you were told the words of truth found in Creator’s good story.


As we walk the road of life, we trust in him even though we do not yet see him, for we walk by faith, not by sight.


So think about yourselves in the same way, dead to broken ways and alive to the Great Spirit in harmony with the Chosen One Creator Sets Free (Jesus).


and about the unfolding of this ancient plan—a great mystery that was hidden away for many ages in Creator’s heart.


They also have chosen to live out their remaining days in these weak human bodies doing what the Great Spirit wants and not following broken human desires.





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