Small Man To The Sacred Families In Land Of Pale Skins Galatians

²⁸It no longer matters whether you are Tribal Members or Wisdom Seekers (Greeks), slaves or free, male or female. For in Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One you are all one people. ²⁹And since you belong to the Chosen One, you are a descendant of Father of Many Nations (Abraham) and the ones who share in the blessings of the promise Creator made to him.

¹What I am saying is that a father might die and leave everything to an only son. As long as that son remains a child, he has no say in the family,16 even though one day all will be his. ²He must wait until he reaches the age that was decided by his father. Until then, he is under the care of his aunts and uncles and other relatives.

³In the same way, we were also children held in bondage under the spiritual powers that rule this world. ⁴But when the time was right, Creator sent his Son, who was born of a woman and born under our tribal law. ⁵He came to set free17 the ones who were under the law, so that all of us could take our place in Creator’s family as mature sons and daughters. ⁶Because this is true of you, Creator has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying out from within us, “Abba! My Father!”

⁷So then, you are no longer slaves to the spiritual powers of this world that use the law to accuse you and bring you under bondage. You are now taking your place as mature sons and daughters ready to share in the family blessing promised by the Great Spirit.

⁸Before you fully knew about the Great Spirit, you served spirits that do not share the nature of the Great Spirit.18 ⁹But now that you know the Great Spirit, and even more, that the Great Spirit knows you, how is it that you desire to turn back to serve those weak and pitiful spirits that use the law to make you their slaves? ¹⁰This is what you are doing when you require people to take part in things like special days, moon cycles, ceremonial seasons, and yearly festivals, in a useless attempt to gain the blessing of Creator’s good road. ¹¹I am worried that my work among you has come to nothing.

¹²My sacred family members, I beg you to become like me, for I was once like you when I served those weak and pitiful spirits—but now I am free. You did not treat me in a bad way when I first came to you. ¹³As you know, I was sick and weak in my body when I first told you the good story. ¹⁴But even though the weakness in my body was hard for you to bear, you did not look down on me with scorn or turn away from me in disgust. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were a spirit-messenger from Creator, or even as if I were the Chosen One, Creator Sets Free (Jesus) himself.

¹⁵Have you lost your desire to be such a blessing to me? I am telling you the truth that in those days, if it had been in your power, you would have sacrificed anything to help me, even your own eyes. ¹⁶Do you now see me as an enemy because I speak truth to you?

¹⁷These false teachers I am warning you about are working hard to snatch you away from us and win you over to their way of thinking. They do not truly care about you. They only want more followers to help them spread their lies. ¹⁸Yes, to win people over is a good thing, but only when it is done for the right reasons, and not just when I am there with you.

¹⁹My little children! Once again I am like a mother struggling to give birth to a child. My struggle will continue until the Chosen One has been fully formed within you. ²⁰O how I wish I were there with you so we could speak face to face! Then we could sit in counsel together, where you could hear my heart and not just my words. I do not know what to do about you.

²¹So then, you who wish to remain under our tribal law, are you ready to hear what it means to be under the law?

²²Let me tell you a story from our Sacred Teachings. Father of Many Nations (Abraham) had two sons. A slave named Wandering Woman (Hagar) gave birth to one son, and Noble Woman (Sarah) gave birth to the other. ²³The son born to the slave woman was born because of broken desires, by trying to force Creator’s promise to come true. The son born to the free woman was born because Creator himself made the promise come true.

^24-25This story reveals a deeper truth. These women represent two peace treaties between the Great Spirit and his people. One peace treaty was made from Mountain of Small Trees (Mount Sinai), where our tribal law was given. This mountain is in Land of Wanderers (Arabia) and is represented by Wandering Woman (Hagar), whose children are all born into slavery. Wandering Woman (Hagar) also represents the present-day Village of Peace (Jerusalem), for this village and its people remain in slavery.

²⁶But the Village of Peace (Jerusalem) from the spirit-world above is represented by Noble Woman (Sarah), the free woman. This Village of Peace (Jerusalem) is our mother, and we are her children, born in freedom.

²⁷For it is written in our Sacred Teachings, “O childless woman who has never given birth or felt the pains of childbirth, dance for joy and shout as loud as you can! For the woman who was barren has more children than a woman with a husband.”19

²⁸Now you also, my sacred family members, are children born of promise. For it was by Creator’s promise that He Made Us Laugh (Isaac) became the child of Father of Many Nations (Abraham).

²⁹At that time the one who was born from broken desires hunted down and brought trouble to the son born of the Spirit’s promise. The same kind of thing is happening today from our own Tribal People.

³⁰But what do our Sacred Teachings tell us? “Send the slave woman and her son far away. For the son of the slave woman cannot share the family blessings with the son of the free woman.”20

³¹So then, my sacred family members, we who trust in the Chosen One are not children of the slave woman but of the free woman.

¹The Chosen One set us free so that we can remain free, so stand firm and do not let anyone rope you into being slaves again. ²Listen closely to what I, Small Man (Paul), am telling you: if you decide to participate in the cutting of the flesh ceremony for good standing with Creator, then what the Chosen One has done will not help you. ³Again, I speak truth from my heart: any man who participates in the cutting of the flesh ceremony for good standing must follow all of the law given by Drawn from the Water (Moses). ⁴You who trust in the law for good standing have cut yourself off from the Chosen One and walked away from the gift of Creator’s great kindness.

⁵But through the Spirit we keep trusting in the Chosen One for good standing and aim our hearts toward Creator’s right ways. ⁶So then, in Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One, whether or not you participate in the cutting of the flesh ceremony does not matter. What matters is walking out our faith on the road of love.

⁷You were walking in a good way. Who talked you out of following the path of truth? ⁸That counsel did not come from the one who called you to follow him. ⁹It has been said, “A little yeast will spread through the whole lump of bread dough.”

¹⁰But I am sure that our Honored Chief will bring you back into agreement with the truth. As for the one who is troubling you, whoever he is, his ways will come back on his own head.

¹¹My sacred family members, if I still teach that the cutting of the flesh ceremony is needed, then why am I under attack? If that is what I truly teach, then the story of the cross of the Chosen One would make no one stumble. ¹²If only those false teachers who are trying to force their way on you would go the whole way and cut it all off!

¹³But you, my sacred family members, have been called to walk in freedom. Do not use this freedom to walk in weak and broken human ways. Instead, walk in love and serve each other. ¹⁴For all of our tribal law finds its full meaning and purpose in this one instruction, “Love your fellow human beings in the same way you love yourself.”21 ¹⁵If you keep on acting like wild animals, biting and snapping at each other, watch out! You may end up wiping each other out!

¹⁶So I say to you, if you keep walking by the Spirit’s guidance, your weak and broken desires will no longer lead you down the wrong path. ¹⁷For our broken human desires go against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit go against our broken human desires. They are at war with each other, and this struggle keeps you from doing the things you want to do. ¹⁸But if you follow the guidance of the Spirit, you are not under tribal law. You have been set free to follow the Spirit!

¹⁹We all know the things our weak and broken human ways lead us to do, things such as walking in impure ways, giving in to dark desires, ²⁰following after spirit-images, and participating in witchcraft. Also hostile ways such as fighting, jealousy, lashing out in anger, arguing and making trouble, and dividing into opposing groups. ²¹Our broken ways also lead us to want what belongs to others, to become drunks, and to participate in wild parties. It is things like this that I am warning you about. For I have already warned you that the ones who walk in these ways will not share in the blessings of Creator’s good road.

²²On the other hand, if we follow the guidance of the Spirit, our lives will bear good spiritual fruit. The Spirit will grow in us the fruit of love and joy, peace and patience, kindness and goodness, faithful hearts, ²³gentle ways, and self-control.

Our tribal law has nothing to say against those who walk in these ways. ²⁴For the ones who belong to Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One have nailed their weak and broken humanity to his cross. This puts to death all their wrong desires and broken ways.

²⁵Since our life comes from the Spirit, let us dance in step with the Spirit and follow the Spirit’s guidance. ²⁶In this way we will not become big-headed troublemakers who are jealous of each other.

¹My sacred family members, if someone among you has given in to broken ways, you who are guided by the Spirit should lead this person back to the right path in a spirit of gentleness. But keep a close eye on yourselves, for you may be tempted to do the same kind of thing. ²Bear each other’s heavy burdens, this way you are walking a path that brings full meaning and purpose to the law of the Chosen One. ³The people who see themselves as something when they are nothing have become their own trickster.

⁴Each one of you should take a good look at your own deeds. Then you can feel honor in the good you have done without comparing yourself with others. ⁵For all of us have our own burden basket to carry.22

⁶The ones who are instructed in the message of the Chosen One should share all good things with their teacher.

⁷Let no one mislead you. You cannot make a fool of the Great Spirit. Whatever you plant is what you will harvest. ⁸If you plant the seeds of your own broken humanity, you will harvest only death and decay. But if you plant the seeds of the Spirit, then from the Spirit you will harvest the life of the world to come that never fades away, full of beauty and harmony. ⁹Never grow tired of doing what is good. For when the time is right, we will reap a harvest of good things as long as we do not let our hearts fall to the ground. ¹⁰So then, whenever we are able, we should do good to everyone, and most of all to the members of our sacred family.

¹¹Take a good look at the large letters I use to write to you with my own hand! ¹²These men who try to force you into participating in the cutting of the flesh ceremony do so for the wrong reasons. They do not teach the full meaning of the cross of the Chosen One out of fear of being hunted down and harmed by their own Tribal Members. ¹³For even those who have participated in the cutting of the flesh ceremony do not themselves keep our tribal law. They only want you to participate in the ceremony so they can brag to others about what they did to your body.

¹⁴May I never brag except in what our Honored Chief, Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One, has done by dying on the cross. For I was nailed to the cross with the Chosen One. That is how I died to the ways of this world and how the ways of this world died to me. ¹⁵So it no longer matters whether one participates in the cutting of the flesh ceremony or not. What matters is that you are a new creation in the Chosen One.

¹⁶May peace and mercy rest on all who walk true to this way of seeing and thinking, and on the people of the Great Spirit who together form the tribes of Wrestles with Creator (Israel).

¹⁷Last of all, let no one trouble me any longer, for on my body I bear the scars that mark me as a follower of Creator Sets Free (Jesus).

¹⁸My sacred family members, may the gift of the great kindness of our Honored Chief, Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One, guide your spirit on the road of life.

Aho! May it be so!