Nothing is missing from God’s Word
Que cuchárique chona Dupade uruode Ecarai
Let’s don’t read or listen to Dupade’s Word without wanting to obey it: (James 1:22,23, 24)
I am so thankful for Dupade’s Word because there is nothing missing for us. There are things missing from other things all over the world. But not from Dupade’s Word, nothing is missing from it, at all.
Is there anyone, anywhere, who can say, ‘Dupade’s Word just came into being’? Are there people anywhere, who after seeing that they are sinners, can do something to get rid of their sin? Of course, not, only Dupade’s Word tells us how to do that – for it contains the answers to everything.
In Scripture we are told that Dupade’s Word is like a mirror, and I think this is a good and accurate example, because everyone has a mirror in his house. He looks at his face in the mirror and sees that he has something on one side of his face; one side is dirty, but the other side is clean. And that is what Dupade’s Word does for us as we read it – it shows us all the blackness we have in our hearts. When a person doesn’t look in the mirror, he can’t be sure if his face is clean or not. And that is how it is with Dupade’s Word, and when we read it, it shows us things about ourselves. When we tell Dupade about the bad things we have done – our lies, the things we have stolen – it is like what happens when we look in a mirror and see we have a dirty face. When we wash our faces in water, the next time we look in the mirror we see that the dirt is all gone.
Therefore Dupade’s Word explains these things. If someone looks at his face he might say, “I’m so thankful that there’s no dirt.” And someone will look at himself in Dupade’s Word, and he says, “I’m so thankful for Dupade’s Words, because there is nothing ugly in me now because Dupade has erased it.”
Reading Dupade’s Word also keeps us from sinning:
“I know that I tend to lie, but when I keep reading Dupade’s Word, it keeps me from lying,” a person might say to himself. When that person keeps reading Dupade’s Word he also might say, “I don’t flirt and play around now.”
When a person reads something about ‘lying’ in Dupade’s Word, he can say, “There’s no lying in me at all because of this book. Dupade’s Words show him what lying is and that it is in his heart, but he doesn’t lie, and he says, “I am so thankful that the temptation to lie hasn’t yet reached me at all, for I have overcome lying because I’m reading Dupade’s Word.”
Daniel had a mirror long ago because he knew Dupade’s Word:
You know that long ago there were powerful kings that captured Daniel and his countrymen, and Daniel said to his friends, “Resist the ugly ways of these people, and let’s not imitate the things they do.”
And Dupade left us on earth and we are all like those that resist this world. Daniel’s captors gave their delicious food to their captives. They wanted Daniel and his companions to eat their food, which was very delicious food. They brought their food to them, but in vain. They reached them and put the food before them, and they asked them to eat it, but they wouldn’t look at it.
Daniel said to his countrymen, “Resist doing what they want you to do. Let’s not eat their food, because they offer it first to their idols before they eat it. The ones they believe in are different than the one we believe in, so let’s not worship them.” Daniel said, “The one we believe in is Dupade, and he is the only one we worship. He watches everything we do. He doesn’t miss a thing, because he is with us wherever we are.”
We should be like Daniel. If a person has a mirror, then he won’t miss seeing what’s on his face. In the morning he looks at himself. And he looks at himself at noon. What he wants is to not have dirt on his face.
Now if that person doesn’t want any ugly thing in him, he reads Dupade’s Words. And he says to himself, “I see that Dupade forbids lies, and other things like stealing.” That’s what he says.
This explains the function of a mirror. Therefore, I tell you to notice that if someone wants a clean face, his mirror will not miss a thing. He will wash his face and look into the mirror again and say, “Now it’s clean. I’m so thankful.”
And when the sun goes down, and someone opens Dupade’s Word he will say, “I’m thankful for what Dupade’s Word tells me. I haven’t lied yet at all because Dupade’s Word has kept me from it.” (Psalm 119:11)
Dupade does not want us to let go of his Word or let it fall from our hands:
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This is what someone does who studies Dupade’s ways. He does not miss a day without reading the Word of Dupade. And he says to himself: “One learns about Dupade’s ways by reading his Words. And that’s what makes a person happy. Dupade does not want his Word to fall from our hands because it’s his Words that make us happy.”
You know how I’m always telling you about a man that left for heaven. He climbed a mountain. His fellow believers told him, “Don’t go to sleep on the way up.” But he kept going and carried Dupade’s Word with him. Sleep killed him and, while he was sleeping, Dupade’s Word fell out of his hands.”
Dupade’s Word also says this: “If you don’t put Dupade’s Word down, it won’t leave your head. We might think we already know Dupade’s Words, but if we neglect them they can go far away from us.”
The man who climbed the mountain knew that it was the Word of Dupade that he was carrying. But when he woke up, he just started climbing again and discovered Dupade’s Word was not in his hands. He went back to look for it but could not find it. Dupade’s Word is not something to let go of, or it will fall from our hands. Let’s not let sleep kill us.
This is all I must teach us. But let’s not forget to obey the teachings from Dupade’s Word.
Dupade’s Word tells us how we should give gifts and how we should pray: (Matthew 6:4-6)
If you believe in Dupade don’t brag about it. It’s like that also when you talk to Dupade. Pray to your Father Dupade inside your house, and only Dupade will see you. It’s pleasing to Dupade when someone believes in him and his faith isn’t something that he shows to everyone so that they will praise him.
It’s like that also when a person gives something to someone. When he wants to brag about his generosity, he let’s everyone know about it. He wants his countrymen to praise him and say how generous he is. On the other hand, those of you that are not after the praise of men, only want your Father Dupade to be praised.
This makes me think of a time when we were out working to cut down trees and they were saying: “They’re not praying.” But Dupade’s Word tells us that we shouldn’t tell everybody that we are praying. So, when we don’t announce the fact that we are praying in our houses, our prayers take themselves up to Dupade in heaven.
This is my teaching for us. I don’t know if don Len or someone else would like to say something. Perhaps someone has a testimony to share or wants to confess his faith in Dupade’s Son: Dupade’s Word says, “Tell others if you believe in Jesus. It also says to confess our sin and ask those we’ve offended to forgive us. Then the things they’ve been holding in their hearts against you will go away, and you will be at peace again with them again.” (James 5:16)
Ecarai catecã́ri Dupade:
Your Word has come upon us as we’ve taught our fellow men, and we haven’t forgotten you, Yoqui-Dupade. I’m grateful to you for your word tells us what we do that is wrong. We tell you and your believers about these things so that they can forgive us. But especially that you, Yoqui-Dupade, forgive us – our lies and the ugly things we do – so that you don’t leave us.
Therefore, I pray to you this afternoon and ask you to watch over us so that Satan can’t tempt us. We know that Satan’s land is the pit where we could go, Yoqui-Dupade. But if we do not forget you, you will accompany us everywhere we go, and Satan will not be able to take your power from us.
Yoqui- Dupade, help the men today as they go to work to be strong for their jobs, and rejoice in having strength and health.
Yoqui- Dupade, I also pray for all the women to be happy. And that they’ll rejoice in your Word.
I ask you to help us to stop our old ways. I know that we Ayoréos are comfortable in being just as we’ve always been, but I ask you to place your new life in our hearts, Yoqui- Dupade.
Yoqui- Dupade, I pray for all the men out in the woods, that you help them right now, that nothing will happen to them and that they will only want you. May you help them to be happy about what they will be earning. We also look forward to when we reach you in Heaven, when we accompany you there, Yoqui- Dupade. Help all of us here in our village, we Ayoreos, all of us not to make excuses and say, “I didn’t go to church at all because they didn’t tell me they were having a meeting.”
But our teachings about your Son Jesus have reached the whole earth. When you come back again, you are going to punish the earth. That is why we are talking to you right now so that you will answer our prayers if we believe in you. Erase the anger in our village, Yoqui- Dupade. Erase the deaf-ears of the people in our village here in Tobité. Therefore, I ask you for all these things in your Son Jesus’ name. Amen.
Key:
Dupade – God
Dupade’s Word – God’s Word
Sleep kills – To get sleepy
Yoqui-Dupade – Our God
When the day is pulled out – At dawn
Deaf-ears – Disobedience
Ecarai – Tobité, Bolivia -1970.
Transcribed and translated to English by: Maxine Morarie.
