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1Do you think we are trying to prove ourselves to you once again? Do we, like some others, need letters of approval for you or from you?
2You are our letter of approval, one that has been written on our hearts, a letter everyone can clearly see and read.
3Your lives show that you are a letter about the Chosen One, written by us not with pen and ink but by Creator’s own Spirit, not with words that have been carved into stone tablets but with words that have been carved into human hearts.
4We say such bold things about ourselves because we trust in what the Great Spirit can do through the Chosen One.
5We do not think we have the power to do these things on our own. Our power comes from the Great Spirit, who works in and through us .
6For it is Creator himself who has chosen and prepared us to tell others the meaning and purpose of his new peace treaty.
This new peace treaty does not depend on written words, but in what the Spirit says. For the peace treaty written as law ended in death, but what the Spirit writes on our hearts brings life.
7The law of the peace treaty that was given by Drawn from the Water (Moses) became a way of death instead of life. Even so, this law came with so much honor and shining-greatness that the people of Wrestles with Creator (Israel) could not look for long on the face of Drawn from the Water (Moses) , even though the brightness was already fading.
8In the light of this, how much greater will be the honor and shining-greatness that comes from the Spirit?
9If the way that condemns people to death came like a shining light, then the way that gives people good standing and life far outshines it.
10The shining light that came first has lost its brilliance in the greater light of the beauty and splendor that has now come.
11For if what was fading away came as a shining light, how much more beauty and shining-greatness belongs to what will never fade away!
12This kind of hope gives us the courage to speak with brave words about these things.
13We will not be like Drawn from the Water (Moses) , who hid his face behind a cloth so the people of Wrestles with Creator (Israel) would not see that the brightness was fading away. This kept them from seeing and understanding.
14Even now, when the old peace treaty is being read, it is as if the same cloth also covers their minds and blinds them to the truth. It is only the Chosen One who can remove their blinders and make them see.
15But to this day, whenever they hear the words of Drawn from the Water (Moses) being read, a cloth remains over their hearts.
16But our Honored Chief removes the cloth from the hearts of all who turn to him.
17The Honored Chief I am talking about here is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit walks, freedom follows!
18So then, with uncovered faces, we are seeing the bright and shining face of our Honored Chief. This bright and shining-greatness, which shines from his face into ours, keeps changing us to be more and more like him. This is what the Spirit does for us, for he is the Spirit of our Honored Chief.