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John 15:5

First Nations Version

“I am the vine and you are the branches. The ones who stay joined to me will grow much fruit, for without me nothing grows.

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I can do all things through the Chosen One who gives me strength!


That you will walk in a manner that is worthy of our Honored Chief, making his heart glad and bearing good fruit as you walk the path he has chosen for you. In this way, you will grow wise in your understanding of our Great Creator.


“You may think you chose me, but I am the one who chose you. You are my new garden where I will grow a great harvest of my love—the fruit that remains. When you bear this fruit, you represent who I am—my name. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask for.


On the other hand, if we follow the guidance of the Spirit, our lives will bear good spiritual fruit. The Spirit will grow in us the fruit of love and joy, peace and patience, kindness and goodness, faithful hearts,


For we must stand firm on the truth and not walk away from it.


“I speak from my heart,” he said to them, “the Son only does what he sees the Father doing, for the Father and the Son do the same things.


Every good and perfect gift comes down from the Father above, who gave us the sun, moon, and stars. But unlike them, the light that comes from the Great Spirit never dims, flickers, or casts a shadow.


Instead, keep growing in the gift of great kindness and knowledge that is yours through our Honored Chief and Sacred Deliverer, Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One. To him be all honor and bright-shining greatness, both now and to the time beyond the end of all days. Aho! May it be so!


I speak from my heart. If a seed is unplanted, it remains only one seed, but if it dies, falls to the earth, and enters the ground, it will then grow and become many seeds.


So my sacred family members, when the Chosen One died in his human body, you died with him. This death released you from our tribal law, so you could join with the one who has been raised from the dead. So now our lives can bear much fruit for the Great Spirit.


I pray that your lives will be filled with the good fruit of doing what is right, which comes from remaining true to Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One. All of this will bring honor and praise to the Great Spirit.


If he were not from the Great Spirit, he could not have done this.” The Separated Ones (Pharisees) were furious! How could this outcast talk back to them like this?


It is not your gifts that I am seeking after but all the good things that giving will add to your lives.


But now you have been set free from broken ways to follow the ways of the Great Spirit. Good fruit grows along this path as you walk in a sacred manner on the road that leads to the life of the world to come that never fades away, full of beauty and harmony.


No one else can restore us. No other human being can represent the Great Spirit and carry in his name the kind of power needed to rescue us and set us free.”


Human beings have one body made up of many parts that all work together. It is the same for the body of the Chosen One.


You are drawing near to the living Lodgepole, the Chosen One who was rejected by human beings but highly honored in the eyes of the Great Spirit.


So then, together you all form the body of the Chosen One, and each one of you has a place in that body.


Walk in the light, and all things good and right and true will shine out from you.


The one who gives seed for planting and good food for eating will make your seeds grow into a great harvest for doing what is right.


The seeds of this good story have been planted throughout the whole world, and now the message is growing and bearing good fruit. In the same way, it took root and began to grow in you, when you first heard and understood the truth about the gift of Creator’s great kindness.


it is the same way with the body of the Chosen One. We are members of his body, and each member belongs to all the others.


Think about it in this way: When we give thanks and drink from the cup Creator has blessed, are we not participating ceremonially in the blood of the Chosen One? When we ceremonially break and eat the frybread, are we not participating in the body of the Chosen One?


but because they have no roots, their faith is shallow and does not last. As soon as the message brings them trouble or opposition, they stumble and fall away.





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