LESSON 38
Be Thankful for the Gift of Life
We can enjoy plenty good-good things because we living. Even when we going through problems, we can still enjoy some good-good things in life. How we can show Jehovah that we thankful for the gift of life? And what the most important reason we get to be thankful for life?
1. Why we must be thankful for life?
We must be thankful because life that gift from our loving Father Jehovah. He is “the source of life.” It mean that him made life. (Psalm 36:9) “He himself gives to all people life and breath and all things.” (Acts 17:25, 28) Jehovah can give us everything we need to continue living. Besides that, he also make it possible for us to enjoy life.—Read Acts 14:17.
2. How we can show to Jehovah that we thankful for the gift of life?
From the time your ma got pregnant with you, Jehovah started taking care of you. In one of David prayer that in the Bible he said to God, “Your eyes even saw me as an embryo.” (Psalm 139:16) Your life really important to Jehovah. (Read Matthew 10:29-31.) When somebody mean it and kill another person or kill theirself, it can really hurt Jehovah. a (Exodus 20:13) It can also hurt Jehovah, when we put our life and other people lives in danger. When we take care of our own life and show respect for other people lives, we show that we thankful for the wonderful gift of life.
LEARN MORE
Learn some ways you can show that you thankful for the gift of life.
3. Take care of your health
Because we promise Jehovah that we will always do what he want, we can use our whole life to serve him. It just like we give our whole body as sacrifice to God. Read Romans 12:1, 2, and answer the question them together:
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What the main reason why you can take care of your health?
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What some of the ways you can do so?
4. Be careful with everything you do so that nobody will get hurt or lose their life
The Bible encourage us not to do anything that will put our life or other people lives in danger. Play the VIDEO to learn some of the thing them that you can do to be safe.
Read Proverbs 22:3, and talk about how you and other people can be safe . . .
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to your house.
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to the working place.
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when playing games.
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when you driving or riding with somebody.
5. Don’t harm the child that still in the ma stomach
David explain that Jehovah get interest in everything that happen to the child that still in the ma stomach. Read Psalm 139:13-17, and answer the question together:
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In Jehovah eyes, what time somebody life can start, the day their ma get pregnant or the day she give birth?
The laws Jehovah gave to the Israelites use to protect the pregnant woman and the child that was in her stomach. Read Exodus 21:22, 23, and answer the question them together:
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How Jehovah can feel when somebody make mistake and kill the child that still in the ma stomach?
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How Jehovah can feel when somebody mean it and kill the child that still in the ma stomach? b
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How you feel about what God say?
Sometime, even the woman who value life can feel that she force to take out the belly. Read Isaiah 41:10, and answer the question them together:
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If people encouraging pregnant woman or condition want make her to take out the belly, who she must ask for help? Why?
SOME PEOPLE CAN SAY: “Sometime condition can force somebody to take out belly.”
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What make you to believe that Jehovah value the life of the pregnant woman and the child that in her stomach?
MAIN POINTS
The Bible teach us to love, respect, and protect the life that Jehovah gave us. That mean our life and other people lives.
Review
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Why Jehovah value human life?
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How Jehovah can feel when somebody mean it and kill another person?
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What you like about the gift of life?
LEARN OTHER THINGS
How we can tell Jehovah thank you for the gift of life?
Find the answer for the question, God will forgive the woman who na take out belly before?
Learn how the way God value life must help us not to play game that will put our life in danger.
“You Think it Good to Play Game That Will Put Our Life in Danger?” (Awake!, October 8, 2000)
Suppose someone thinking about killing theirself? Learn how the Bible can help them.
“I Just Want Die—The Bible Can Help Me When I Thinking About Killing Myself?” (Web article)
a Jehovah really care about people who get broken heart. (Psalm 34:18) Jehovah can understand the pain that can make people to want kill theirself and he want help them. To see how Jehovah can help those who thinking about killing theirself, see the article, “I Just Want Die—The Bible Can Help Me When I Thinking About Killing Myself?” It in the section of this lesson call, “Learn Other Things.”
b Those who na take out belly before and serving Jehovah now, no need for them to be feeling too bad, because Jehovah can forgive them. For more information, see the article “Wetin the Bible Say About Taking Out Belly?” that in the section of this lesson call, “Learn Other Things.”
