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Romans 8:16

First Nations Version

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

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We know that we live in him and he lives in us because Creator has shared his Spirit with us.


He put his Spirit into our hearts to mark us as his own. His Spirit in us is the promise of our place in the world to come.


Our Creator is the one who has made us ready for this new body. The gift of his Spirit is his proof to us that his promise is trustworthy and true.


And now, not only we but all other Nations who have heard the truth of this message can participate in his plan. This is the good story that sets all people free. When we trusted in the Chosen One, he marked us as his own by giving us his promised Holy Spirit.


In the same way, his Spirit helps us in our weakness, for our prayers are often empty words, but Creator’s own Spirit groans deep within us, without words, making our weak prayers strong.


In this way, Creator’s Holy Spirit will not be grieved. For it is he who marks you as his own and keeps you safe for the day when all things will be complete.


We may be bragging, but we are bold enough to tell you that our hearts are pure, for we have walked this road of life in a sacred and true manner. We have not followed the ways of this world, but by the gift of Creator’s great kindness we have walked in a good way before the people of this world, and even more toward you. In the same way, our words to you are as straight as an arrow. We do not speak with forked tongues in our letters to you.


And even we who have first tasted of his Spirit are groaning on the inside, as we wait for Creator to finish the purpose for which he took us into his family, by giving us our new bodies that will never die.


The ones who trust in the Son of the Great Spirit have accepted this truth in their inner beings. But those who do not trust in him are making Creator out to be a liar, because they do not believe he has told the truth about his Son.


“Creator’s blessing rests on the ones who make peace. It will be said of them, ‘They are the children of the Great Spirit!’


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.


We have seen these things with our own eyes! The Holy Spirit also agrees with these things, the one Creator will give to those who walk in his ways.”


for it is the ones who follow the guidance of Creator’s Spirit who are truly 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.


This means it is not the children physically descended from Father of Many Nations (Abraham) who are counted as children of the Great Spirit, but only the ones who are born because of Creator’s promise. He Made Us Laugh (Isaac) was born because of a promise the Great Spirit made to Father of Many Nations (Abraham).


He Helps Us (Hosea) also said, “In the same place where they were told, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘The family of the living Creator.’”


“‘I will be a father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters,’ says the All-Powerful One.”


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


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!”


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.


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.


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.


All these blessings will belong to the ones who win the victory. I will be their Great Spirit, and they will be my sons and daughters.





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