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John 17:25

First Nations Version

“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.

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“Since I am returning to you, I will no longer be in the world, but my followers will still be here. O Father of all that is holy, watch over them with the loving care that we share with one another. In this way, they will also share the love that makes us one.


The message you gave to me I have given to them. They have welcomed the truth about who I am and trust that you sent me.


“The people who walk in the ways of this world will do this to you because you walk in my ways, representing me. This shows they do not know the one who sent me.


Your love and trust in me will bring the Father’s love to you—full circle.


There will be no need to teach others to know their Honored Chief, for all, whether small or great, will know me.


For the ones who do not believe have been blinded in their minds by the evil spirit-ruler of this present world. This blindness keeps them from seeing the light that shines when the good story is told about the beauty of the Chosen One, who is the only one who fully represents the Great Spirit.


You do not truly know him, but I do. If I were to say, ‘I do not know him,’ I would be a liar, like you! But I know him deeply and walk in all his ways.


He then turned to the seventy who walked the road with him and said, “My Father has put everything into my hands. Only the Father knows the Son, and only the Son knows the Father. No one can truly know the Father in his fullness unless the Son makes him known.”


All who dwell in the land will honor and serve the wild beast—all whose names have not been written down in the book of life belonging to the Lamb who was chosen to be violently killed from the formation of the world.


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


he will punish the ones who refuse to see who Creator truly is, and those who do not respect and follow the good story of our Honored Chief Creator Sets Free (Jesus).


Return to the right way of thinking and stop walking in broken ways. Some of you have no understanding of the ways of the Great Spirit. It is to your shame that I have to speak in this way. Have you no respect for yourselves?


In his great wisdom Creator knew that the world through its wisdom would not come to know him. So his heart was glad to rescue and set free the ones who trust in the “foolishness” of the good story we tell.


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.


No one walks in wisdom. No one is seeking to walk with the Great Spirit.


Since they did not want to know the Great Spirit, he turned them over to their worthless ways of thinking, to do things that should not be done.


My message will open their eyes so they may turn from the path of darkness to walk the road of life, and turn away from the power of the Accuser (Satan) to the power of the Great Spirit, so they may be released and set free from their bad hearts and wrongdoings. In this way, they will find their place among all who are made holy by trusting in me.’


As I walked around, I saw some of your sacred objects. One altar had this message carved into it: DEDICATED TO AN UNKNOWN POWERFUL SPIRIT “So then, the one you sacredly honor without knowing is the one I will make known to you.


In the same way you are in me, I will be in them, beautifully joined together as one. This is the reason you sent me into this world, to show that you love them just as you love me.


I pray that all who walk with me will be joined together as one, in the same way that you, Father, are in me and I am in you—that they may be one in us. This is how the world will believe that you have sent me.


“You sent me into the world, and now, in the same way, I send them into the world.


This life comes from knowing you, the only true and Great Spirit, and from knowing the Chosen One, Creator Sets Free (Jesus), the one you have sent into this world.


We now see that you know all things and can answer a question before it is asked. This helps us to believe that you came from the Great Spirit.”


all because they do not know me or my Father.


“Where is your Father?” they said back to him. “You do not know me or my Father,” he told them. “If you knew me, you would know who my Father is.”


Creator did not send his Son to decide against the people of this world, but to set them free from the worthless ways of the world.


No one has ever seen the Great Spirit, but the one Son, who is himself the Great Spirit and closest to the Father’s heart, has shown us what he is like.


“You are the Chosen One,” One Who Hears, also called Stands on the Rock (Simon/Peter), answered, “the Son of the living Creator!”


“My Father has put everything into my hands,” he said with a solemn voice. “Only the Father knows the Son and only the Son knows the Father. No one can know the Father in his fullness unless the Son makes him known.” Then he lifted his eyes to the horizon as if he were speaking to all the world.


Then I heard the spirit-messenger of the waters say, “You are upright and true, O Holy One Who Is and Was. Your decisions are right and true!





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