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LESSON 40

How We Fit Dey Clean As God Want?

How We Fit Dey Clean As God Want?

Think-am say one mama de prepare e pikin for school. The mama bath the pikin and wear clean cloth for e body. This one de make the pikin dey strong for body and show other people say the mama and papa de care for their pikin. Na so our Papa, Jehovah, want make we dey clean for our body, for the way we de think, talk and behave. When we dey clean, we de gain and de bring honor to Jehovah.

1. How we fit dey clean for body and for the things wey we get?

Jehovah tell us say: “Wuna must dey holy.” (1 Peter 1:16) To dey holy mean say, we go dey clean for how we de think, talk, behave and for our body. To dey clean mean say we go always de bath, de wash our clothes and keep our house and motor clean and neat. We fit still join clean our Kingdom Hall. When we dey clean for this things, we de bring honor to Jehovah.—2 Corinthians 6:3, 4.

2. Which things we go run from if we want dey clean?

Bible talk say “make we remove all dirty from our body and spirit.” (2 Corinthians 7:1) This one mean say we go run from anything wey fit damage our body or our mind. If we want make wetin we de think de make Jehovah happy, we must stop to think about bad things. (Psalm 104:34) We still de do our best to talk clean things with our mouth.—Read Colossians 3:8.

Which other things fit dirty our body or how we de think, talk and behave? Some things fit damage our body. So, we no de take things like cigar, snuff, bad drugs, and we no de use medicine anyhow. When we run from this things, we go dey strong for body and show say we respect the gift of life. We still de do our best to dey clean as we de try to run from dirty things like to look picture or film of naked people or for person to rub and play with e sex organ make e sweet the person. (Psalm 119:37; Ephesians 5:5) E fit no easy to stop this bad things, but Jehovah fit help us make we stop-am.—Read Isaiah 41:13.

LEARN MORE THINGS

Learn why we de bring honor to Jehovah when we dey clean, and see how we fit run from dirty things.

3. We honor Jehovah when we dey clean for body and for the things wey we get

The law wey Jehovah give Israel people help us see say e dey important to Jehovah make e servants dey clean. Read Exodus 19:10 and 30:17-19, and talk about this questions:

  • As this verses show, how Jehovah de feel when we dey clean for body?

  • Wetin you fit de do all the time to dey clean for body?

E de take time and hard work to dey clean. But we fit dey clean no matter the place wey we de stay or whether we dey rich or poor. Play the VIDEO, and talk about the question for under.

  • Why people wey we de preach to go show respect for Jehovah more when they see say our things dey neat and clean?

4. Stop to do dirty things

Jehovah fit help us make we stop any bad thing wey we de do

If you de smoke or de take bad drugs, you go know say e no easy to stop this things. Wetin fit help you? Learn how that kind practice de affect you. Read Matthew 22:37-39, and talk about how cigar and bad drugs de affect . . .

  • the friendship wey person get with Jehovah.

  • the family of the person and people around the person.

Plan how you fit stop to do dirty things. a Play the VIDEO.

Read Philippians 4:13, and talk about this question:

  • If person de always pray, study Bible, and de go meeting, how this one fit give the person the power to stop to do dirty things?

5. Try hard to stop to think and do dirty things

Read Colossians 3:5, and talk about this questions:

  • How we know say Jehovah hate dirty things like to look picture or film of naked people, to send message, picture or video about sex to another person, and for person to rub and play with e sex organ make e sweet the person?

  • You think say we fit really dey clean as Jehovah want? Why you talk like that?

Learn how you fit stop to think bad things. Play the VIDEO.

Jesus use one example to show say we must do something if we want really dey clean. Read Matthew 5:29, 30, and talk about this question:

  • Na true say Jesus no de talk say make we harm ourself, but wetin e talk mean say we must do something. Which things person fit do to stop to think about dirty things? b

If you de try hard to stop to think about dirty things, Jehovah dey happy with you as you de try. Read Psalm 103:13, 14, and talk about this question:

  • If you de try hard to stop to do dirty things, how this verses fit encourage you to continue to try?

If you fall, e no mean say you no fit win!

E dey easy for person to think say, ‘I don fail, so I no fit continue again.’ But think about this one: Just because person wey de run fall, e no mean say e no go fit win the prize, or say e go start from the beginning again. Na the same thing with you, if you still do the bad thing wey you de try hard to stop, e no mean say you no go fit stop to do that bad thing. And e no mean say that one don cancel your hard work as you de try. E dey normal to fall. But no stop to try! Jehovah go help you to stop this bad thing.

SOME PEOPLE DE TALK SAY: “This thing don be part of me. I no fit stop-am.”

  • Which Bible verse you fit use to show the person say Jehovah fit help make e stop to do the bad thing?

WETIN THIS LESSON TEACH

We de make Jehovah happy when we dey clean for our body, for how we de think and do things.

Wetin You Don Learn

  • Why e really dey important to dey clean?

  • How you fit keep your body and your things clean?

  • How you fit dey clean for wetin you de think and do?

Wetin You Fit Plan to Do

LEARN OTHER THINGS

Which simple things you fit do to dey clean even when you dey poor?

To Dey Clean and Strong—De Wash Your Hand (3:01)

See things wey you fit do to stop to smoke.

“How Person Fit Stop to Smoke” (Awake!, May 2010)

Learn how picture or film of naked people de affect person.

“To Look Picture or Film of Naked People Fit Harm Us?” (The Watchtower, August 1, 2013)

Learn about how one man stop to watch film of naked people.

“I Fail Plenty Times Before I Fit Succeed” (The Watchtower No. 4 2016)

a The topic, “How Person Fit Stop to Smoke,” under Learn Other Things for this lesson, de explain things wey person fit do to stop to smoke.

b If you want get help to stop to rub and play with your sex organ make e sweet you, check the topic “How I Fit Stop to Rub and Play With My Sex Organ Make E De Sweet Me?” for the book Questions Young People Ask—Answers That Work, Volume 1, chapter 25.