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1From Small Man (Paul) , a servant of the Chosen One, Creator Sets Free (Jesus) .
The Great Spirit has called me to be a message bearer, one who has been set apart to tell his good story.
2The Sacred Teachings tell us about this good story that was promised by the prophets from long ago, who spoke from the Great Spirit .
3This is the good story about Creator’s own Son. In his human body he was descended from Chief Much Loved One (David) ,
4and in a powerful way he was shown to be the Son of the Great Spirit when his human body was raised from the dead by the Spirit of all that is sacred.
5It is because of the gift of his great kindness that we have been chosen to be his message bearers. We are telling his good story to all Nations so they can put their trust in Creator, follow him in all his ways, and bring honor to his name.
6This sacred task is also yours, because you have been called to belong to Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One.
7I write this message to the ones who live in Village of Iron (Rome) . You are all deeply loved by the Great Spirit and are called to be his holy ones. I send to you great kindness and peace from our Father the Creator and from our Honored Chief, Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One.
8First of all, I thank the Great Spirit, along with Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One, for all of you, because all over the world people are hearing about your trust in his good story.
9-10The Great Spirit, whom I serve from my spirit by telling others the good story about his Son, knows how much I pray for you. I never stop bringing your name before Creator when I send my voice to him, asking whether this is the time that he will finally open the way for me to come and be with you.
11I am longing to see you face to face, so I can pass on to you some spiritual gift that will give you strength,
12so that we can strengthen our trust in him and together become firmly rooted in the good story .
13I want you to know, my sacred family members, how often I have tried to come to you, but many things have held me back. I have desired to share in some of the spiritual fruit Creator has grown from you, in the same way I have from others who are of the Outside Nations.
14Because of the great debt of love that I owe, I must tell the good story to both the civilized and uncivilized—to all who walk in the ways of wisdom and to all who do not.
15And now I am able and ready to tell the good story to you who live in Village of Iron (Rome) .
16I am not ashamed of this good story, for to all who trust in its message it has Creator’s power to set free and make whole. This is true, first for our Tribal People, and then to all the Outside Nations![#1.16 Lit. Greeks]
17For this good story tells about Creator’s great faithfulness to do what is good and right. It is the story of faithfulness and trust from beginning to end. It is written in our Sacred Teachings, “The ones in good standing will find life by trusting in what the Great Spirit has done for them .”[#1:17 Habakkuk 2:4]
18From the spirit-world above, Creator’s great anger is being shown to the ones who hide the truth by following their bad hearts and wrongful ways.
19The Great Spirit has a reason to be angry , because he has clearly made himself known to all human beings.
20Ever since the world was made, his invisible, never-fading power and Sacred Spirit have been understood and clearly shown through the things that he has made.[#1:20 Lit. divinity or divine nature]
So they have no good reason not to trust in what Creator has done for them .
21For even though they knew him as Creator, they did not thank him or give him the honor he deserved. This empty way of thinking took hold of their foolish hearts and led them into darkness.
22Even though they thought they were wise, they became only foolish two-leggeds.
23They traded the beauty and honor of the Great Spirit, who has always existed, for carved images of short-lived human beings, winged ones, four-leggeds, and snakes that crawl on the ground.
24For this reason the Great Spirit permitted them to go their own way and follow the dark desires found in their own hearts, desires with one another that failed to honor the sacred purpose their bodies had been created for.
25In doing so, they traded Creator’s truth for something false, and honored and served created things more than the Great Spirit. He is the one who is to be given honor and blessing to the time beyond the end of all days. Aho! May it be so!
26So then, the Great Spirit permitted them to go their own way to dishonor themselves by following these dishonorable desires. Their women traded what was their natural sexual desire for what was not natural.
27Their men did the same things, giving up their natural desire for women and fanning into flame a hunger for one another, men with men, dishonoring their own bodies. In doing so, they had to face for themselves the end result of this wrong thinking.
28Since they did not want to know the Great Spirit, he turned them over to their worthless ways of thinking, to do things that should not be done.
29-30Filled with these wrong ways, they followed their bad hearts and made evil their aim. Keeping all things for themselves and not sharing, they became filled with greed, hatred, and violence. This took them down a dark path of fighting and killing, of lies and telling bad stories about others. They became puffed up, disrespectful and arrogant, finders of new ways to do evil things, disobedient to parents, and they even began to hate the Great Spirit.
31This turned them into foolish, ruthless treaty breakers, with hearts like stone!
32Even though they know that Creator is right when he says these worthless ways deserve death and will lead others there, they continue to walk in these ways, and even worse , they give their approval to other people who also walk this path.