First Letter from Small Man to the Sacred Family in Village of False Victory 4
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KEEP WALKING IN A SACRED WAY
1My sacred family members, I have more I want to say to you. You are walking in a way that makes Creator’s heart glad, the way we taught you to walk. Now our firm counsel to you from our Honored Chief Creator Sets Free (Jesus) is that you must keep walking more and more in this way. 2For the instructions we gave you came from Creator Sets Free (Jesus) our Honored Chief himself.
3Our Creator wants you to walk in a sacred way, keeping yourself free from sexual impurity. 4He wants each of you to control your own body in a sacred manner with honor and respect, 5not with uncontrolled desire, like the people from the Outside Nations who do not know the Great Spirit. 6No one should abuse a sacred family member in this manner, for our Honored Chief will punish those who do, just as we have already solemnly warned you. 7For our Creator has not called us to walk in impurity but in a sacred manner. 8So the one who turns away from this instruction is not turning away from a human being, but from Creator himself, who has given his Holy Spirit to you.
LOVING EACH OTHER
9There is no need for us to instruct you about the love we share as sacred family members. Creator himself has taught you how to love each other. 10It is clear that you show love to all the sacred family throughout Land of Tall People (Macedonia). So then, my sacred family members, keep loving like this more and more. 11Make it your aim to live a quiet and peaceful life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, just as we have instructed. 12By walking in this good way, you will win the respect of outsiders and not have to look to others for your needs.
ABOUT THOSE WHO HAVE DIED
13Now, my sacred family members, we want you to understand what will happen to those who have walked on so that you will not be filled with sorrow like the others who have no hope. 14We believe that Creator Sets Free (Jesus) died and rose again. We can be just as sure that the Great Spirit will, along with him, bring back to life those who when they died were trusting in him.
15What we are telling you comes from the words of our Honored Chief. We who remain alive until his coming will not come face to face with him ahead of the ones who have walked on. 16For our Honored Chief himself will come down from the spirit-world above with a war cry. The voice of the chief spirit-messenger will join with him, and the eagle bone whistle will sound.#4:16 Lit. trumpet, or in Hebrew shofar, meaning “ram’s horn” First, the ones who died trusting in the Chosen One will rise. 17Then, together with them, we who have remained alive will be taken up into the clouds to meet our Honored Chief in the air. Then we will always be with him. 18Use these words to lift up each other’s hearts.
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