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Jnacari pota chise dacuecaringué eyúgojmai (
A young man once asked Jesus: ‘Jesus, what can I do to have eternal life?”
He said, “I’ve never killed anyone. I’ve never lied. I’ve never done anything wrong since I was a little boy,’ he said.
But Jesus said to him, “There’s still something else you need to do. Give everything you have to the poor people among you, let them have all of it,” he said, “then come and follow me.”
But the young man loved being well off. He loved being rich, more than he loved Dupade.
So, you can see that a person might not have killed anyone, or done anything else wrong, but still may not have truly believed in Dupade. And so, Dupade will not take him to heaven. The rich young man was really enjoying being rich. So he didn’t really understand Dupade’s Word. But when the day would finally come, and he would find himself in the lake of fire, only then would he regret holding on to his things, remembering in vain what it was like to be rich. He would recall how plentiful his food was on earth and how he never got hungry, but never again would he have a sense of well-being in this place of an unending second death.
There is a way, however, to not have to experience the second death: (John 3:16-18)
But for Dupade’s believers it is written in the scriptures that whoever believes in Dupade will not experience Dupade’s punishment, hunger, nor the heat of the sun, for he will be in Dupade’s city.
And we know that for Dupade’s believers that have Dupade’s love there will be plenty of food. Dupade tells us about the fruit trees in his garden in heaven. I don’t know how many types of trees there are, but I know that every month there will be fruit ripening. In Dupade’s written word we don’t read much about the type of food we will eat, but we’re told we’ll never be hungry again, nor be too hot. We won’t get sleepy there in Dupade’s city – sleep is an earthly thing. Tiredness goes along with sleepiness and there will be no tiredness there. And sickness goes along with tiredness. All these things appeared after Dupade cursed the earth long ago when Adam and Eve sinned.
So that’s why I’m asking you to tell us if you are ready to put your faith in Dupade. And if you don’t let us know now, don’t wait for another year. For Dupade’s Word says that if you hear His Word today, don’t say, “I might believe in Jesus next year or some time in the future.” Today is the day to believe in Dupade and if you do, you will have joy in hearing his Word because now you believe it. There’s coming a day that, if you do not put your faith in Dupade, you will miss us, or miss your mother or your father, because you can’t go where we believers go.
Two Ayoré men could be hunting honey in the woods when Jesus comes back again; one of them has faith in Dupade, but the other one doesn’t. One would go up into heaven, and the other who is left behind will wonder what happened to his friend. He couldn’t accompany his friend to heaven, because he hadn’t put his faith in Dupade. But the other one did believe, and he went to heaven. We Ayoré, here on earth, stick together -we go on trips together and go hunting, and hang out together, but afterwards we all return to camp. But when Dupade comes to take his believers, he might find us on a hunting trip together in the woods and take only the person that believed in Him. And that is why Dupade talks about how all of us on earth should believe in Him today.
Ecarai – Camp Ayoré, Bolivia – 1971.
Transcribed by: Faith Wyma.
Translated to English by: Maxine Morarie.
