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God wanted us to be in his own family, so he sent his true word to us. And when we believed that word it was like we were born all over again. That’s how he made us his really special people.

You have to listen properly to the word from God, that he put right inside you, and you have to do what it says. Don’t think that you are so good that you don’t need God’s word. No. You have to do what it says, then that word will save you. … You have to listen to God’s word and keep on thinking about it. Don’t forget it, but do everything it says. That word will make you free, so that you will do everything God wants. And God will make you really happy whenever you do the things he wants you to do.

Everything in God’s book comes from God himself. It was God that sent the message to people to write down, and God uses it now to teach us his true word, and he uses it to get us to understand the things that are wrong with our lives, and he uses it to fix us up, and he uses it to teach us to do the things that are right. That’s how God properly trains his workers. He uses the words in his book to teach them, so they can do all those good things that he wants them to do.

At that time the devil came to Jesus and said, “If you are the son of God, tell these stones to turn into loaves of bread.” But Jesus told him, “No. I will not do that. You know what God says. These words are in his book, ‘People don’t live just by eating bread, but they live by every word that God says.’ ”

God’s word will never die, it will last for ever.

So now we can be really sure about the messages that are in God’s book. We can be sure that they are true. A long time ago, God told his men to write those words in his book. You have to think carefully about those messages. They can help us understand the true story about God, like a light helps us see things in the night. Those messages will keep on helping you until Jesus comes back and he helps you know God properly. Then it will be like Jesus is a really bright light that shows us everything clearly, like the really bright star that shines in the morning, and then the sun comes up. You see, those men that wrote those words a long time ago, they didn’t think up their own stories. No. They didn’t write down their own ideas. The Holy Spirit worked inside them and told them God’s messages. Those words came from God, and they wrote them down in his book.

After the Holy Spirit comes, he will tell you what is true. He will teach you everything that is true about God. He will not say his own words, but only the words he heard from God.

First of all, a long time ago, God made everything. He made the sky, and he made the earth. He made all the things that are everywhere.

Jesus was there with God a long time ago, and he worked with God to make everything. They made all the things in heaven, and all the things on the earth. They made the things we can see, and the things we can’t see. They made all the spirits, even the spirit bosses that we can’t see. God worked with his son to make everything, so that now everything has to respect God’s son. Jesus is God’s son, and he is the boss over everything.

Then God said, “We are going to make people. They will be like us. …” So God made people to be like himself.

Don’t be frightened of those people that can only kill your body. They can’t kill your soul. But you have to listen to God. If you don’t do what he says, you have to be frightened. He can finish up your body, and then he can also finish up your soul too, in that bad place called hell.

God doesn’t want anyone to die for ever. He wants everyone to turn around. He wants them to stop doing bad things and turn to him.

Jesus went around to a lot of different towns. In each town he told the people God’s good news. He said, “God wants to have you in his family.”

The man and the woman heard God walking in the garden. So they got behind some trees in the garden to hide from God.

Think about the story about Adam. God told him, “If you eat any fruit from that tree, you will die.” Then Adam did the wrong thing, he ate that fruit, so he died. And it’s the same for everybody now.

You see, God loved all of the people in the world. He loved everyone so much that he sent them his only son, his special son. God sent him to die instead of them, so that if anyone trusts him, God will not finish them up, but they will live with him for ever.

You know, the boss over the bad spirits, he always used to push us to do bad things. ... But God sent his son, Jesus. … He took the payback for us, so that now God will not punish us. He set us free from that bad boss, and now we belong to the family of God’s son.

Jesus Christ died for us while we were still really bad people. That shows that God really loves us very much.

Now is the right time for God to take people into his family. You mob have to take notice and turn right around and live God’s way. You have to believe this good news.

Now God says to all of us, that we have to turn around and stop doing bad things. And if we don’t stop doing bad things, he will give us big trouble. He is going to have a big court, and all of us will have to stand in front of the judge. He has already set the date for that. It will be a fair court, and he has picked one man to be the judge. That man died, but God made him alive again. God did that to show everybody that he picked that man to be the big judge.

You know, Jesus Christ will come back, and he will judge everyone. He will judge everyone that is alive at that time, and everyone that is already dead.

If we do bad things, we will get our pay for doing those things. We will die. That’s all the pay we will get. But if we join up to our leader, Jesus Christ, we will not die. God will give us properly good life. We will live with him for ever.

If anyone believes in God’s son, then God will not say they are guilty. But if anyone does not believe in him, God has already said they are guilty. You see, they do not believe in God’s only son, his special son.

Jesus said, “Listen, I am telling you straight, if anyone wants to be in God’s family, they have to get born again God’s way. God has to make them clean, and he has to put his spirit in them. You see, … if people get born again from God’s Holy Spirit, then the Holy Spirit gives new life to their spirits too.”

God gave the Holy Spirit to you so that you can be really sure that you belong to God.

If we belong to Jesus Christ, God will never say we are guilty. His spirit is in us, and he gives us new life, and he makes us strong so that we can say no to that bad part of us that tries to make us go wrong. That is the new way that we live, because we belong to Jesus, and it makes us free from the old way of doing bad things and ending up dead.

“The father will send the Holy Spirit to help you. He will be your teacher, in my place. He will help you remember all the things I told you, and he will teach you everything you need to know.”

If God’s spirit controls people, he gets them to do good things. You know that a good fruit tree always gets good fruit on it. Well, like that, a person with God’s spirit does good things. If you let his spirit lead you, he will get you to love God and to love other people. And you will be happy. And you will feel good and quiet inside yourself so that you will not fight with other people. God’s spirit inside you will help you be good to people and not get angry, even if they give you trouble. And he will get you to be friendly to other people, and he will get you to do good things. He will make you the sort of person that other people can trust. He will stop you from thinking you are too important, and he will help you to control yourself.

Christian friends, we are going to tell you now about people that have already died. We don’t want you to be sad when you think about them. … You see, we believe that Jesus died, and after that, God made him alive again. So we also believe that when Jesus comes back to this earth, all the Christians that already died will come back with him. … It will happen like this. Our leader, Jesus himself, will come down from heaven, and while he is coming, everyone will hear him call out, and they will hear the voice of the boss angel, and they will hear the sound of God’s trumpet. Then, first of all, those people that belonged to Jesus Christ and already died, they will come back to life. After that, God will get those of us Christians that are still alive at that time, and he will take us up into the clouds with the Christians that already died, and we will all meet Jesus, our leader, way up in the air. And so, after that, we will be with Jesus all the time, for ever.

Your word is that true message.

I don’t just say whatever I want to say. The father told me what to say.

I am the one that says what is true about God.

God’s word will never die, it will last for ever. And that is the message about Jesus that God’s people told you.

If you keep on following me, and if you do the things I teach you, then you will be my proper followers, and you will know the true message.

Nobody is really good, not even one person.

We all went the wrong way, and we did bad things. Nobody is properly good, like God wants us to be.

God says in his book that everyone does bad things. They can’t stop doing those bad things.

God says that if we trust in Jesus, he will save us. It doesn’t matter who we are. God treats everybody the same. We all went the wrong way, and we did bad things. Nobody is properly good, like God wants us to be. But Jesus Christ died for us. He took the payback for those bad things that we did. So now God is really good to us, and he says that we are all right now, and he will not blame us any more. And we don’t have to pay anything. God sent Jesus to die for us, so that, if we believe that Jesus died for us, God is not angry with us any more. Jesus let people kill him, and his blood came out, so now, if we trust him, God says we are all right.

God loved everyone so much that he sent them his only son, his special son. God sent him to die instead of them, so that if anyone trusts him, God will not finish them up, but they will live with him for ever.

You mob have to be really sorry for the wrong way you are living. You have to turn right around and live God’s way.

Now is the right time for God to take people into his family. You mob have to take notice and turn right around and live God’s way. You have to believe this good news.

Listen. You mob have to change the way you live, and you have to turn back to God, so that he will not blame you or do payback to you for the bad things you did. Then God will make your spirits happy and strong.

Now God says to all of us, that we have to turn around and stop doing bad things. And if we don’t stop doing bad things, he will give us big trouble.

You have to really believe that God made Jesus alive again after he died, and you have to tell people that you belong to Jesus. If you believe like that, and if you talk like that, God will save you.

Jesus said, “If you tell everyone that you are one of my followers, I will tell God, my father in heaven, that you are one of my followers. But if you tell everyone that you are not one of my followers, I will tell God, my father in heaven, that I don’t know you, and I will tell him that you are not one of my followers.”

You have to turn around and follow Jesus. … Then God will … give you the Holy Spirit to live in you.

If people get born again from God’s Holy Spirit, then the Holy Spirit gives new life to their spirits too.

God said they can join his family, and be his own kids. Yes, those people are in God’s family, but they were not born into it the way kids are born into human families. And they did not come from what a human mother or father wanted. God himself gave them new life and made them his kids.

So this is what I’m telling you, let God’s spirit control your lives, and you will not do any of those bad things that make you feel good. You see, it is like this. We all have a bad part in us that makes us want to do bad things, to make us feel good. And we also have God’s spirit in us, and he makes us want to do good things. Those 2 are both in you, and they both want to control you, so they are fighting each other inside you all the time. Whenever you listen to God’s spirit and try to do good things, that bad part in you tries to stop you, so you don’t do what you really want to do. But if you let God’s spirit control you, you will do good things.

And always think about the message that came from Jesus Christ, so that you follow it all the time. Talk to each other about Jesus’s message, and help each other to follow it properly. Think about it the right way. If anyone starts to get it wrong, straighten each other out.

You have to go out to everywhere in the world and tell everybody the good news about me.

The Holy Spirit will come to you, and he will give you power, and then you will tell people about me … and you will go to people everywhere in the world, and you will tell them about me.

People might say to you, “Tell us, why are you sure that God will do good things for you?” So you always have to be ready to help them understand why you are sure. Tell them clearly, and respect them as you talk to them.

God says this in his book too, “God will save everybody that calls out to him for help and asks him to save them.” But what about people that don’t believe in God? They can’t call out to him, right? And what about people that have never even heard about Jesus? They can’t believe in him, right? Somebody has to tell them about him, and then they can believe in him.

Don’t get drunk. If you drink too much grog, you will go wild, and you will do stupid things. Don’t do that, but instead, keep on letting the Holy Spirit come into you and fill you up.

I’ll tell you now about the sort of people that will not be in God’s family … people that always get drunk.

Sometimes I go to parties and eat good food, and sometimes I drink wine.

Then Jesus picked up the cup of wine and said thank you to God for it, and he gave it to his followers, and they passed it around, and each of them drank a little bit of wine.

By the way, I know that you are often sick in the stomach, so you have to mix a little bit of wine into the water you drink.

The man looked at that woman, and he said, “This is really good. Now I have a mate.” … They will join with each other, and their bodies will be like one body.

Every one of you husbands has to love your own wife as much as you love yourself. And every wife has to respect her husband.

You women that are wives, you have to think about what your husbands want, and agree with them, just like God’s people always have to agree with what our leader, Jesus, wants. … Yes, and you men that are husbands, you have to do your part too. You have to always love your wives properly, just like Jesus Christ loves the people in his church properly.

God tells us in his book that he made people and everything else. His book says, “He made them man and woman.” And he tells us, “A man will leave his mother and father and marry a woman. The man and his wife will join with each other, and their bodies will be like one body again.”

If a wife needs her husband to sleep with her and do what married people do together, he has to agree to it, to make her happy. And if a husband needs his wife to sleep with him and do what married people do together, she has to agree to it, to make him happy. You see, the wife’s body does not only belong to her, it also belongs to her husband. In the same way, the husband’s body doesn’t only belong to him, it also belongs to his wife. So, if your husband or wife wants to sleep with you, to do what married people do together, you can’t say, “No.”

Now I will talk to you people that are not married. Maybe your wife or husband has died, or maybe you never married anyone. This is what I reckon. Stay single, like me. But you have to control yourself properly. If that is too hard for you, then marry somebody. If you are always wanting to sleep with somebody and do what married people do together, don’t try to stay single.

You know God’s laws. … Don’t sleep with a woman that is not your wife, as if you are married to her.

Don’t let anyone trick you about this. I’ll tell you now about the sort of people that will not be in God’s family. People that sleep with somebody that’s not their wife or husband, as if they are married. Those people will not be in God’s family.

You know, the teachers of God’s law tell you this, “Don’t sleep with a woman that is not your wife, as if you are married to her.” But now I’m telling you this. If you look at a woman that is not your wife, and you think about sleeping with her, that is bad too. If you think about doing that, you are going wrong. Thinking about it is just as bad as doing it.

If a man splits up from his wife, and then if he marries another woman, he is sleeping with the wrong woman as if she is his proper wife. But she is not, and he is breaking God’s law, and he is doing wrong to his proper wife. And if a woman splits up from her husband, and then if she marries another man, she is sleeping with the wrong man as if he is her proper husband. But he is not, and she is breaking God’s law, and she is doing wrong to her proper husband.

I’m telling you this, husbands and wives have to stay married to each other. Only if a man’s wife sleeps with another man, as if he is her husband, only then can her husband divorce her. But if a wife never does that, then her husband can’t divorce her. If he divorces her, he is forcing her to marry another man and sleep with him, and that is wrong. And the man that marries her is doing wrong too.

So if you have a husband or wife that is not Christian, and they want to leave you, then you can let them go. Christians don’t have to try to make their partners stay with them if their partners are not Christians. God wants us to be quiet and happy. He doesn’t want us to be arguing and fighting with each other. But if your husband or wife is not Christian, but they agree to stay with you, then don’t leave them. Listen, Christian wife, maybe you can help your husband turn around and let God save him. And listen, Christian husband, maybe you can help your wife turn around and let God save her.

God made your bodies for you to live his way. You can’t sleep with anyone you want to. You have to use your bodies the way God wants you to use them. You see, our bodies are important to God. Our leader, Jesus died, but then God made him alive again. And God will use his power to make our bodies alive again too. Think about this. God says this in his book, “The man and his wife will join with each other, and their bodies will be like one body.” So, if a man pays a woman money to let him sleep with her, he joins his own body to her body and becomes like one body with her. And you know, your bodies are parts of Jesus Christ’s body. So don’t let part of Jesus’s body join up to the body of a bad woman. No way. But, you know, if you join on to our leader, Jesus, you join your spirit to his spirit, and the 2 of you become like one spirit. So never sleep with anyone that is not your own wife or husband and do what married people do together. Get away from that sort of bad thing. You see, other bad things that you do are outside of your own body. But if you sleep with a person you are not married to, you hurt your own body. And you know, God gave you his spirit, and he lives in you. Your body is the home of the Holy Spirit. You don’t belong to yourself any more, but you belong to God. Remember this, God bought you. He paid a lot for you. So you have to use your body to live for him, to show everyone that God is really great and good.

So don’t sleep with somebody that is not your own wife or husband, as if you are married to them. … You are God’s own people, so don’t even think about doing bad things like that. That’s not the way for God’s people to live. And don’t talk in a dirty way or tell dirty jokes, and don’t say stupid things. It’s not right for God’s people to talk like that. Instead, when you talk, you have to thank God a lot. Listen, this is true. If you do those bad and dirty things, you will never get the good things that God gives to his people. It’s like this, if you think in a dirty way, you can’t be in God’s family, you can’t be with Jesus Christ. And if you sleep with somebody that is not your wife or husband, as if you are married to them, you can’t be in God’s family.

You have to stop doing bad things. If that bad part inside you wants you to do something bad, don’t do it. It’s like you have to kill that old bad part inside you. Don’t listen to it. Don’t sleep with anyone that is not your wife or your husband, as if you are married to them. And don’t think bad, dirty thoughts. Don’t think about doing bad things.

Keep thinking about the things that are true, and the things that people should respect. Keep thinking about the things that are right, and good, and lovely. Think about things that everyone reckons are really good. Think about the things that we can thank God for.

Everybody knows about the bad things that people do to make themselves feel good. They sleep with people that are not their own wives or husbands, and they do what married people do together. They think about dirty things, and then they do those bad things. They don’t try to control their bad thoughts. … But if God’s spirit controls people, he gets them to do good things.

You have to try to make people’s lives better, and don’t fight with anyone, but live happy and quiet together.

Don’t get angry with other people, even if they give you trouble. Don’t get upset with each other. If somebody does something bad to you, don’t do payback to them. Remember that God doesn’t do payback to you, for the bad things that you do. So don’t do payback to other people. And you really have to love each other properly.

If you get angry, don’t do anything wrong. Don’t stay angry all day, but quickly stop being angry. Don’t make it easy for the devil, the boss over the bad spirits, to get you to go wrong.

If you let God’s spirit lead you, he will get you to love God and to love other people. And you will be happy. And you will feel good and quiet inside yourself so that you will not fight with other people. God’s spirit inside you will help you be good to people and not get angry, even if they give you trouble. And he will get you to be friendly to other people.

You have to love your enemies too. And if anyone makes trouble for you, pray to God and ask him to be good to them.

If your enemies are hungry, give them food to eat. If they are thirsty, give them something to drink. Then they will be sorry and feel shame for the bad things they did to you.

But if you only think about things that are good for yourself, and if you are jealous of other people, and if you hate other people, you are not thinking God’s way. That’s the devil’s way. … You see, sometimes people get jealous of each other, and sometimes they only do things to make themselves happy, and they don’t think about anyone else. Whenever that happens, those people start fighting each other, and they get into all sorts of trouble.

You think you really want something a lot, and if you can’t get it, you argue and fight for it. You try to work out ways to trick people, or maybe even kill people, just to get something you want. You don’t ask God for it, and that’s why you don’t get it. And even if you do ask God for something, he doesn’t listen to you. He knows that you are just thinking about yourself. He knows you just want to make yourself happy, and you don’t care about anybody else, so he doesn’t give you that thing you want.

If you look at a woman that is not your wife, and you think about sleeping with her, that is bad too. If you think about doing that, you are going wrong. Thinking about it is just as bad as doing it. You see, if things in your life push you to go wrong, then you have to get rid of them, even if it is hard to do.

If God’s spirit controls people, he gets them to do good things. … he will help you to control yourself. And there is no law to stop anybody doing any of those good things. You see, sometimes doing bad things makes people feel good. But people that belong to Jesus Christ stop doing those bad things. That bad part inside them might make them feel like doing those bad things, but they don’t take any notice of it any more.

Husbands have to love their wives properly, just like Jesus loves us. You know that everyone loves his own body and looks after it properly. Well, in the same way, husbands have to love their wives and look after them, just as much as they love their own bodies. A man that loves his wife, loves himself. No man ever hates his own body. No, instead he gives it food and takes care of it. … So. … every one of you husbands has to love your own wife as much as you love yourself.

You men … have to love your wives properly, and don’t ever be hard on them.

You men … have to respect your wives and take good care of them. Their bodies aren’t strong like yours. But all of you are God’s people, so God gave them life, just the same as he gave you life. So remember that, and be good to them and respect them. Then God will hear your prayers.

You women that are wives, you have to think about what your husbands want, and agree with them, just like God’s people always have to agree with what our leader, Jesus, wants. … So … every wife has to respect her husband.

You women that are wives, you have to think about what your husbands want, and agree with them. That is the right way to follow our leader Jesus.

If you let God’s spirit lead you, he will get you to love God and to love other people. And you will be happy. And you will feel good and quiet inside yourself so that you will not fight with other people. God’s spirit inside you will help you be good to people and not get angry, even if they give you trouble.

People that try to get lots of money, they let the devil trick them. The devil is the boss over the bad spirits. He gets those people to want things so much that they will do anything to get them. That’s how they fall into the devil’s trap. They do silly things, and bad things too. The devil really wrecks them. If you love money a lot, you will do all sorts of bad things to get it.

Jesus told them another picture story. He said, “You can’t work for 2 bosses at the same time. If you try to do that, then you will only like one boss, and you will always work properly for him. But you will not like the other boss, and you will never work properly for him. You see, you can’t have God as your boss, and money as your boss, both at the same time.”

Don’t be greedy, wanting lots of money and things. Greedy people respect money and things more than they respect God. You know, some people will not do what God says, and he will be angry with those people, and he will punish them.

Jesus said to the people, “Think carefully about this. Don’t be greedy. Don’t try to get more things than you need. You can’t get real life from the things you own, even if you are rich.”

If people don’t take care of their own family or their own relatives, they are not doing the thing that Jesus wants us to do.

And don’t be lazy, but work to get enough money to buy whatever you need. Then you will not have to ask other people for things. If you live like that, the people that don’t know God will see that you are good, and they will respect you.

You saw the way that I lived when I was with you. I showed you the right way for a Christian to live. I never wanted to get anyone’s money or good clothes. I always worked to get the money that I needed, and to get money for my friends too. I did everything in a way that showed you that we all have to work hard to get enough money, not just for ourselves, but to give some to people that are short of the things they need. We have to remember that our leader, Jesus, said, “If people give things to you, that can make you a bit happy. But if you give things to other people, you will be properly happy.”

Now I’m talking to you fathers. Don’t make your kids angry. But instead, as they are growing up, you have to teach them the way God wants them to live, and show them how to live the right way.

The father will send the Holy Spirit to help you. He will be your teacher, in my place. … and he will teach you everything you need to know.

After the Holy Spirit comes, he will tell you what is true.

You see, God is a spirit, and the people that really respect him have to know the true story about him, and they have to respect him with their spirits.

First of all, a long time ago, God made everything. He made the sky, and he made the earth. He made all the things that are everywhere.

Jesus Christ worked with God, and together they made everything.

Jesus was there with God … They made all the things in heaven, and all the things on the earth. They made the things we can see, and the things we can’t see. They made all the spirits, even the spirit bosses that we can’t see. God worked with his son to make everything, so that now everything has to respect God’s son. Jesus is God’s son, and he is the boss over everything.

God sent Gabriel, [his] angel messenger, to Galilee country, to a town called Nazareth. He went there to a young girl that was not married. Her name was Mary. … Gabriel came to Mary and said, “Hello, Mary. God loves you and is good to you. He is here with you now, and he will do something good for you.”

But that night, God sent an angel messenger to Jesus’s special workers, and he opened the jail doors and let them out. That angel said to them, “Go and stand in God’s ceremony house, and tell all the people there everything about this new life that Jesus gives.”

The devil is the boss over those strong bad spirits that are in the air.

You have to think clearly and watch out for your enemy, the devil. He is the boss over all the bad spirits, and he is going around looking for people to trick.

You know, the devil, the boss over the bad spirits, he tries to trick people. It is like he sets a trap for them. He catches people in his trap, then he makes them do whatever he wants them to do.

You see, we are not fighting against people, but we are fighting against a big mob of bad spirits. We are fighting against the bad spirit bosses that we can’t see in this bad world. And we are fighting against the powerful bad spirits that live above the earth too. So you have to use all the special gear that God gives you, so that you can stand up to those bad spirits whenever they come at you, and they will not win. And at the end of the fight, you will still be standing strong. So put on that special gear from God, so you can stand up against the devil. This is what that gear is.

– You know that a soldier wears a belt, to hold his clothes on tight, so he can move quickly in a fight. Well, just like that, you take notice of what is true, so you can fight better against the devil.

– And a soldier wears an iron plate, to stop the enemy from hitting his chest. Well, you have to always do what is right, and that will be like an iron plate for you, to stop the devil from hitting you.

– And a soldier wears special shoes, so that he can always be ready to fight. Well, you have to remember the good news about Jesus, that he makes us God’s friends. Then you will be ready to fight the devil.

– You know that a soldier always has a shield, to stop the spears that the enemy throws at him. In the same way, you have to always trust God. Whenever you do that, it is like you are holding up a shield that stops the things that the devil throws at you. They are like burning spears, but if you trust God, he will stop them and put them out.

– And a soldier wears an iron hat, that stops the enemy from hurting his head. Well, you remember that God has saved you. That will be like an iron hat for you, to keep you safe.

– And you know the long knife a soldier has, called a sword? He uses it to fight back against his enemy. Well, in the same way, you can use God’s word to fight back against the devil, and the Holy Spirit will help you.

And always pray in the way that God’s spirit leads you. Pray about every problem, and pray in all sorts of ways, and ask God for whatever you need.

We are on God’s side. He is with us, so it doesn’t matter who is against us, they can’t win against God.

I’m really sure that nothing at all can make God stop loving us. … Those bad spirits, they can’t make him stop loving us.

All the angels, and all the bad spirits, and all the bosses everywhere, they haven’t got as much power as Jesus. No. He is the strongest one anywhere. He has more power than all of them.

God is stronger and more powerful than anyone, and … he will use his power to do good things for all of us that trust him.

You know, Satan, the boss over the bad spirits, he tries to get you to go wrong. But God is stronger than Satan. God is the one that makes us happy and quiet inside ourselves. And he will beat Satan, so that Satan can’t do anything to you any more.

You know, the boss over the bad spirits always used to push us to do bad things. It’s like we were in a bad place, where he is the boss. But God sent his son, Jesus, to get us out of that place. He took the payback for us, so that now God will not punish us. He set us free from that bad boss, and now we belong to the family of God’s son.

So listen to God, and follow him, and do what he says. Fight back against the devil, the boss over the bad spirits. Whenever he tries to get you to go wrong, just tell him to be quiet, and don’t listen to him. Then he will leave you, and he will run away from you.

Jesus, our leader, is always good to us, and he always does what he promised to do. He will help you to keep on trusting him strongly. He will keep you safe from that really bad one, the boss over the bad spirits, so that he can’t touch you.

After Jesus comes back, all his people will live again too. Then Jesus will finish up all the bad spirits. Some of them are bosses, and some of them have power. He will take away their power, and he will finish them all up. Then the end will come.

The bad spirits that are the bosses over this world, they were our bosses. … At first you didn’t know God. Those other bad spirits were your bosses. Those spirits are not gods at all, but you couldn’t get free from them. But then you heard about Jesus, and now you do know God, or really, God knows you. So don’t turn back now to those weak and useless spirits that are the bosses over this world. Don’t let them be your bosses again.

We know that there is only the one God. But some people that are not Christians, they respect lots of spirits. They respect spirits in the sky, and spirits on the earth. And they think those spirits are gods, and they let those spirits be their bosses. And people make statues that they think look like those spirits, and they think those statues get power from those spirits. But we Christians know that those statues are nothing at all. We know there is only one God. He is our father. He made everything, and we want to do whatever he wants, as long as we live. And there is only one true boss. He is Jesus Christ. He worked with God, and together they made everything. And Jesus gives us Christians real life.

You see, this is what I’m saying. Those statues that people think are gods, they are really nothing. … Really, those people are showing respect to bad spirits, not God, and they are joining themselves to bad spirits. Don’t do that. I don’t want you to join up with bad spirits. You can’t go 2 ways at the same time. You can’t drink from the cup of our leader, Jesus, and then drink from the cup of bad spirits. You can’t eat the damper from the table of Jesus, and then eat food from the table of bad spirits. If you do, you will make God jealous, and he will get angry with you.

Everything in God’s book comes from God himself. It was God that sent the message to people to write down, and God uses it now to teach us his true word, and he uses it to get us to understand the things that are wrong with our lives, and to straighten us out, and he uses it to teach us to do the things that are right.

The most important law is this one. … “You have to love God properly, not just a little bit. You have to love God from right inside yourself. You have to love God in the way you feel, and in the way you think. And you have to love God in the way you do things.”

The 2nd most important law is this one, “You have to love other people just as much as you love yourself.”

Those 2 laws are the strongest and most important laws.

So if you want to properly understand what is the right thing to do, and if you want to learn how to be strong when you get trouble, just ask God to help you. He will not be angry with you. He is happy when you ask him for help like that, and he will help you, and make you think properly. He will make you think the right way so that you will do the right thing.

After the Holy Spirit comes, he will tell you what is true.

You can use God’s word to fight back against the devil, and the Holy Spirit will help you.

Some people do what is right, but some other people don’t like it, and they make trouble for those good people. But God takes those good people into his family, and they will be really happy.

If people give you trouble because you follow Jesus, don’t feel shame. No. Just thank God that you belong to Jesus.

If people give you trouble now, don’t worry. But stay strong for God. And keep on talking to God about everything.

And God gave each tribe their own country, and he planned where they will live and how long they will live there. He did that so that we can look for him, and maybe we can find him. But really, he is not very far away from any of us. That old story is true that says, “He is with us all the time. He is the one that makes us alive, so that we can walk about and do things.”

We shouldn’t just dream up something and then make a statue like that from gold or silver or stone, and say, “My god looks like this.’’ No way. Nobody can make any sort of statue that is anything like God. You see, at first people didn’t know about God, but at that time he didn’t worry about it. Now it is different. Now he says to all of us, that we have to turn around and stop doing bad things.

Some people might try to make you believe some ideas about God that are wrong. Those ideas didn’t come from Jesus Christ, but they came from bad spirits, and from the people of this world. People taught those ideas to their kids, and to their grand-kids. But those ideas are not true. They might sound good, but they are tricky lies. Be careful. Don’t believe them.

Don’t rubbish God’s messages, but listen carefully when anyone tells you a message from God. Think carefully about everything they say, and find out if it really comes from God. Then, if it is right, be careful to remember it and to do those good things. But if it is wrong, or if it tells you to do a bad thing, don’t do it. Keep away from every sort of bad thing, and don’t listen to messages that don’t come from God.

Jesus is the only one that can save people. God didn’t send anyone else to save us. Jesus is the only one in the world that has power to save people.