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STUDY ARTICLE 30

The Honor Wey Jehovah Don Give You for E Family, No Play With-am!

The Honor Wey Jehovah Don Give You for E Family, No Play With-am!

“You make-am make e low small pass angels, and you give-am glory and honor make e wear like crown.”—PS. 8:5, ftn.

SONG 123 De Follow Wetin Jehovah Arrange

WETIN WE GO LEARN? *

1. Which questions we fit ask when we think about all the things wey Jehovah don make?

WHEN we think about everything wey Jehovah don make, we fit feel like David wey pray to Jehovah and ask say: “When I see your heavens, the things wey your fingers make, the moon and the stars wey you don make, who be man wey you de think about, and son of man wey you de take care of?” (Ps. 8:3, 4) Like David, we fit think about how small we be when we compare ourself to the stars wey Jehovah don make, and this one fit make us surprise say Jehovah get us for mind. But we go see say Jehovah no only care about the first people wey e make wey be Adam and Eve, but e still make them to be part of e family.

2. Wetin Jehovah be get for mind for Adam and Eve?

2 Adam and Eve na the first people wey Jehovah make for this earth as e children, and e love them as their Papa for heaven. Jehovah give them work to do. E tell them say: “Make wuna born pikin them and make wuna plenty; make wuna fill this earth and de control everything for this earth.” (Gen. 1:28) E want make they born children and care for the earth well. If to say Adam and Eve obey Jehovah and support wetin e get for mind for them, they for continue to be part of e family forever together with their children.

3. Why we fit talk say Jehovah give Adam and Eve better position for e family?

3 Jehovah give Adam and Eve better position for e family. As e dey for Psalm 8:5 and footnote, David talk something about humans wey Jehovah make say: “You make-am make e low small pass angels, and you give-am glory and honor make e wear like crown.” Na true say Jehovah no give us the same power and sense like the angels. (Ps. 103:20) But we only “low small” pass the powerful angels for heaven. This one really dey wonderful! When Jehovah make our first papa and mama, e give them better life.

4. Wetin happen to Adam and Eve as they no hear word, and wetin we go talk about for this article?

 4 The sad thing be say, Adam and Eve no obey Jehovah, and so they stop to be part of e family. This one don cause serious problems for their children, as we go see for this article after. But wetin Jehovah get for mind never change. The kind people wey e want make they be e children forever, na people wey de hear word. Make we first talk about how Jehovah don honor us. Then, we go talk about wetin we fit do now to show say we want dey part of God family. And the last thing wey we go talk about na the blessings wey Jehovah children for this earth go enjoy forever.

THE WAY JEHOVAH DON HONOR US

Which ways Jehovah don honor us? (Check paragraph 5-11) *

5. How we fit show God say we like as e make us for e image?

5 Jehovah make us for e image to honor us. (Gen. 1:26, 27) Because God make us for e image, we fit learn how to show plenty fine-fine character. For example, we fit show love, our heart fit move us to help person, we fit get tight friendship, and we fit show say we dey righteous. (Ps. 86:15; 145:17) When we de show this fine-fine character, we de honor Jehovah and de show say we like wetin e do. (1 Pet. 1:14-16) When we de do things to make our Papa for heaven dey happy, we go dey happy too. And because we get fine-fine character like Jehovah, we go fit be the kind people wey e want for e family.

6. How Jehovah honor humans when e make the earth?

6 Jehovah prepare special house for us. Long time before Jehovah make the first man, e don prepare the earth for us. (Job 38:4-6; Jer. 10:12) Because God dey kind and e get open hand, e give us plenty better things make we enjoy. (Ps. 104:14, 15, 24) God take time sometimes to think about the things wey e don make, and e see say wetin e make “dey good.” (Gen. 1:10, 12, 31) God give humans “power to control” all the fine things wey e don make for this earth. This one show say e honor them. (Ps. 8:6) God want make perfect people care for the fine-fine things wey e don make, and e want make they enjoy-am forever. You de always thank Jehovah for that better promise?

7. How Joshua 24:15 show say we dey free to make our own decision?

7 Jehovah don give us freedom to make our own decision. We fit choose the thing wey we want use our life do. (Read Joshua 24:15.) When we choose to serve our God Jehovah, e de over glad. (Ps. 84:11; Prov. 27:11) We fit use our freedom well to decide plenty other better things. Make we see the example wey Jesus show us.

8. Wetin be one way wey Jesus use the freedom wey e get?

8 We fit do like Jesus when we choose to help other people before ourself. One day when Jesus and e apostles don really tire, they travel go one quiet place and they get the mind say they go rest for there. But they no rest. Plenty-plenty people see them for the place, and they really want make Jesus teach them. Jesus no vex for them. Instead, e pity for the people. So, wetin Jesus do? Bible talk say: “E start to teach them many things.” (Mark 6:30-34) When we de use our time and power to help people, we de do like Jesus, and this one go bring praise to our Papa for heaven. (Matt. 5:14-16) And we de show Jehovah say we want dey part of e family.

9. Wetin papa and mama suppose put for their mind?

9 Jehovah make us make we fit born children, and give us the work make we fit teach them to love and serve God. If you be papa or mama, you dey happy for this special gift? Even though say Jehovah bless the angels with plenty better things, e no make them for way wey they fit born children. So, if you be papa or mama and you de train pikin, make you no play with this kind special thing at all. Papa and mama don receive the important work to “teach and train [their children] for the way wey Jehovah want.” (Eph. 6:4; Deut. 6:5-7; Ps. 127:3) Jehovah’s organization don provide plenty things from Bible to help papa and mama. Some of this things na our book them, videos, music, and other things for Internet. E clear say our Papa for heaven and e Son love our young people. (Luke 18:15-17) When papa and mama trust Jehovah and really do their best to care for their children wey they love, Jehovah de glad. And this kind papa and mama de give their children the hope to be part of Jehovah family forever!

10-11. Which better thing Jehovah don arrange for us because of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ?

10 Jehovah give us e Son wey e love pass so that we fit dey part of E family again. As we talk for  paragraph 4, when Adam and Eve sin they no dey part of Jehovah family again, and even their children. (Rom. 5:12) Na Adam and Eve decide say they no go obey God, and so they no suppose dey part of e family again. But what about their children? Jehovah love humans wey e make. So, Jehovah make-am possible to take people wey de listen to e word to be part of e family. E do this one with the sacrifice of e special Son wey be Jesus Christ. (John 3:16; Rom. 5:19) Because of the sacrifice of Jesus, Jehovah take 144,000 faithful people as e children.—Rom. 8:15-17; Rev. 14:1.

11 Apart from that one, plenty other faithful people de obey God. They get the hope to dey part of e family for complete way after the final test for the end of the 1,000 years. (Ps. 25:14; Rom. 8:20, 21) Because of that hope wey they get, they don already de call Jehovah wey be the Person wey make them, their Papa. (Matt. 6:9) People wey go come back to life too, get the chance to learn about the things wey Jehovah want make them de do. People wey choose to obey the things wey e talk, go still become part of e family.

12. Which question we go answer now?

12 As we don learn, Jehovah don do plenty things to honor us. E don already take anointed Christians as e children, and e don give the “great crowd” the hope to be e children for the new world. (Rev. 7:9) Wetin we fit do now to show Jehovah say we want dey part of e family forever?

SHOW JEHOVAH SAY YOU WANT DEY PART OF E FAMILY

13. Wetin we must do to be part of God family? (Mark 12:30)

13 Serve Jehovah with all your heart to show say you love-am. (Read Mark 12:30.) Because Jehovah dey kind, e don give us plenty gifts. For example, we fit worship Jehovah, and e fit be say na this gift big pass. We de show say we love God when we ‘de obey e laws.’ (1 John 5:3) One of the laws wey Jehovah want make we obey, na the command wey Jesus give to go make disciples and baptize them. (Matt. 28:19) Jesus still command us make we love each other. (John 13:35) Jehovah go welcome people wey obey the things wey e command to be part of e family.—Ps. 15:1, 2.

14. How we fit show people love? (Matthew 9:36-38; Romans 12:10)

14 Show people love. Love na the number one character wey Jehovah get. (1 John 4:8) Before we even know Jehovah, e don show us love. (1 John 4:9, 10) We de do like Jehovah when we show other people love. (Eph. 5:1) One better way wey we fit show love for people, na when we help them learn about Jehovah as time still dey. (Read Matthew 9:36-38.) When we do like that, we de give them the chance to be part of God family. After person don baptize, we must continue to love and respect the person. (1 John 4:20, 21) How we go do this one? For example, we go trust the person say e get better thing for mind. Then, if we no fit understand why e do the thing, we no go think say e de think about only e self. Instead, we go show say we honor our brother and we de think for our mind say our brother better pass us.—Read Romans 12:10; Phil. 2:3.

15. Who we suppose show pity and dey kind to?

15 Show pity and dey kind to everybody. If we want be part of Jehovah family forever, then we must do the things wey Bible talk. For example, Jesus teach say make we show pity and dey kind to everybody, even our enemies. (Luke 6:32-36) Sometimes, this one fit hard us to do. If na so, then we must learn to think and do things like Jesus. When we de do our best to obey Jehovah and de copy Jesus, we de show our Papa for heaven say we want dey part of e family forever.

16. How we fit protect the name of Jehovah family make e no spoil?

16 Protect the name of Jehovah family. For family, small boy de always want do like e senior brother. If the senior brother de follow the things wey Bible talk for e life, e go be better example for e junior brother. If the senior brother de do bad things, the junior brother fit follow e bad example. Na so Jehovah family be. If brother or sister dey faithful before, but e stop to serve Jehovah and begin talk wicked lie about the organization, or de put hand for things about sex, or e de do other bad things, other people fit copy e example and do wetin dey bad. When people do this kind thing, them de spoil the name of Jehovah family. (1 Thess. 4:3-8) We no go follow bad examples and we no go allow anything to spoil our friendship with our Papa for heaven.

17. Which kind thinking we need to reject, and why?

17 Trust Jehovah instead of property or cargo. Jehovah promise say e go give us food, cloth, and place wey we go live, if we make the Kingdom the number one thing for our life and live our life the way e want. (Ps. 55:22; Matt. 6:33) When we trust this thing wey God don promise us, we no go de think say money and property of this world go fit protect us and make us dey happy forever. We know say na only when we do wetin Jehovah want we go get real peace. (Phil. 4:6, 7) Even if we get money to buy many things, we go need to check whether we really get the time and power to use this things and care for them. E dey possible say we go like the property sotey we no go get time do other things? We need to remember say God don give us work to do as members of e family. This one mean say we no go allow other things to comot our mind from the work. We no go ever want be like the young man wey like the things wey e get sotey e no gree follow Jesus. So because of this one, e miss the chance to serve Jehovah and to be one of e sons.—Mark 10:17-22.

THINGS WEY CHILDREN OF JEHOVAH GO ENJOY FOREVER

18. Which big honor and which blessings the people wey de obey Jehovah go enjoy forever?

18 People wey obey Jehovah go get the biggest honor to love and worship Jehovah forever. The people wey get the hope to live for earth go still dey happy as them de care for this fine earth wey Jehovah don make well for them, to live inside. Small time, God’s Kingdom go make the earth and everything for inside to dey new again. Jesus go comot all the problem wey Adam and Eve cause when they decide to leave God family. Jehovah go resurrect millions of people and give them the chance to live forever with better body for paradise for this earth. (Luke 23:42, 43) When all the people wey de worship Jehovah for this earth go dey perfect, each of them go get the “glory and honor” wey David write about.—Ps. 8:5.

19. Wetin we need to remember?

19 If you be part of the “great crowd,” you get wonderful hope. God love you and e want make you be part of e family. So, do everything wey you fit do to make God happy. De think about the things wey God don promise, as you de live your life everyday. Value this big honor wey you get to worship our dear Papa wey dey heaven. And this chance wey you get to praise Jehovah forever, make you no use-am play!

SONG 107 De Show Love Like Jehovah

^ par. 5 If any family want dey happy, each member for the family must know wetin e suppose do and e must help the other family members. The papa de direct the family with love, the mama de support the papa, and the children de obey their papa and mama. Na so e still be for Jehovah family. Our God get something for mind for us, and if we support that thing wey e get for mind, we go dey e family forever.

^ par. 55 OTHER THINGS ABOUT THE PICTURE: As Jehovah make us make we fit de show love and pity, this husband and wife de show love and pity to each other and to their children. The husband and wife love Jehovah. They show say they love Jehovah as them de train their children to love and serve Jehovah. The papa and mama de use video explain to their children why Jehovah give Jesus as the ransom. They still teach their children say for paradise, we go care for the earth and for the animals forever.