The Record of Pehnitlehnsit.

NARRATOR — SPOKEN VOICE ONLY] [DO NOT SING] Today we continue our journey through the Nemenhah Sacred Records... with The Record of Pehnitlehnsit. Pehnitlehnsit moved his family into the mountains... and there they discovered something remarkable. Ancient mounds. Earthworks. Sacred places... built by people who had lived upon the land long before them. The Nemenhah could have destroyed them. They could have said: These are not ours. These people did not worship exactly as we do. Instead... they honored them. They restored the ancient places... and even built their own sacred structures upon those old foundations. Why? Because Pehnitlehnsit taught a remarkable principle. When they found truth in the writings and customs of other peoples... they could bring that truth... into their own sacred walk. Think about that. Truth did not become false because someone else discovered it. If something was good... if something was true... if something pointed toward righteousness... they could receive it. But they never abandoned the center of their faith. The Peacemaker. They gathered one day in seven to worship Him. They prayed. They sang. They taught one another. They shared a sacred meal... remembering the Last Supper of the Peacemaker. And their ordinances had a purpose. Not merely to perform ceremonies. Not merely to preserve traditions. But to change... the natural man into the spiritual. Pehnitlehnsit also understood something else. Every generation must seek the Peacemaker for itself. The ways of their ancestors were sacred... but Pehnitlehnsit taught that no people in one time... could completely know the will of the Peacemaker... for every other people... in every other time. So they preserved the old records... while continuing to seek revelation. Then Pehnitlehnsit became concerned. The Nemenhah were spreading across distant lands. Families could become separated. People could forget one another. So an old practice was renewed. The Traveling Pehli. Young men and women traveled among distant communities. They carried records. They learned from relatives. They remembered peoples who had lived upon the land before them. And they helped keep the scattered Nemenhah connected. But notice how Pehnitlehnsit's own children were called. First... they went upon the Way. There they received their commission from the Peacemaker. Then they came to their father... and were ordained and set apart. The calling began... with the Peacemaker. And perhaps that is the great lesson of Pehnitlehnsit. Honor your ancestors... but keep listening. Preserve the records... but keep learning. Respect the sacred things of other peoples. Receive truth wherever God allows you to find it. Teach your children. Stay connected. And never allow tradition... to replace the living voice of the Peacemaker. Because the Way is not something we place behind glass. The Way... is meant to be walked. [MUSIC GENTLY BUILDS] [BEGIN SINGING — SHORT REFRAIN] Take the truth... Wherever it may be... Walk with the Peacemaker... And He will lead thee... Keep to the Way... Keep seeking the light... Walk with the Peacemaker... And walk in the right. [END]