Person wey you love don ever die? When something like this happen, you fit de ask say: ‘Wetin de happen to us when we die? We go ever see this our people again?’ For this lesson and the next one, we go see how Bible go comfort us.

1. Wetin de happen to us when we die?

Jesus talk say death be like deep sleep. When person don really sleep deep, e no de know wetin de happen around again. How death be like sleep? After person die, e no de feel pain. E no de feel say e dey alone, even if e love e friends and family when e still dey alive. Bible talk say: “People no de know anything at all after they don die.”—Read Ecclesiastes 9:5.

2. When we know the truth about death how this one go help us?

Plenty people de fear to die and they still de fear dead people! But wetin Bible talk about death go comfort you. Jesus talk say: “The truth go free wuna.” (John 8:32) Some religions de teach say when person die, something inside the person no de die, but this one no be wetin Bible de teach. This one mean say, person no de suffer after e don die. And since dead people no know anything, they no fit do bad thing to us. So we no need to worship dead people or do some things so that they no go vex for us, and we no need to pray for them.

Some people de talk say they fit talk with dead people. But this one no dey possible. As we just learn, dead people “no de know anything at all.” This people think say them de talk with dead people but e fit be say na demons them de talk to. This demons de pretend say na them be the dead people. So, when we know the truth about death, e de protect us from demons. Jehovah de warn us make we no de try to talk with dead people because, e know say if we connect with demons they go cause problem for us.—Read Deuteronomy 18:10-12.

3. Learn wetin de really happen to dead people

For the whole world, people get different beliefs about wetin de happen to us when we die. The truth na say, no be all this beliefs be true.

• Wetin people for your area de talk say de happen to us when we die?

 4. The truth about death de help us

When we know the truth about death e de help us make we no de fear dead people. Read Ecclesiastes 9:10, and talk about this question:

• Dead people fit do us bad thing?

When we learn the truth from Bible e go help us make we no believe the lie wey people de talk say, we need to worship dead people or do some things so that they no go vex for us. Read Isaiah 8:19 and Revelation 4:11, and talk about this question:

• How you think say Jehovah de feel when person de worship dead people or de try get help from them?

5. The truth about death de comfort us

They don teach plenty people say when they die, they go suffer because of the bad things wey they don do. But e de comfort us to know say person no de suffer after e don die, even if the person don do bad things. Read Romans 6:7, and talk about this question:

• As we don read for Bible, if death de free person from sin, you think say dead people de suffer because of the things wey they don do when they still dey alive?

The more we de learn about Jehovah, the more we go see say Jehovah no de punish dead people. Read Deuteronomy 32:4 and 1 John 4:8, and talk about this questions:

• The God with this kind qualities wey this verses don show go ever punish person wey don die?

• This truth wey you don learn about dead people de comfort you? Why you talk like that?

 WETIN THIS LESSON TEACH

When person die, e life don end. Dead people no de suffer and they no fit do us anything.

Wetin You Don Learn

• Wetin de happen when person die?

• How the truth about death de help us?

• How the truth about death de comfort us?