LESSON 48
Choose Your Friends Well
Better friends de make us happy when things dey fine and them de make us strong when we de face problems. But Bible warn us say no be everybody be good friend. So how you fit choose good friends? Make we talk about some questions for down.
1. How the friends wey you choose fit affect you?
We de try copy the people wey we de spend time with. They fit affect us for good way or for bad way, whether we dey together with them or we de talk with them for internet. Bible talk say, “when person de follow wise people, e go get sense. But when person de do things with stupid people, e go enter problem.” (Proverbs 13:20) Friends wey love and de worship Jehovah fit help you to stay near Jehovah and make good decisions. If we be tight friends with people wey no de worship Jehovah, they fit make us leave Jehovah. Na this one make Bible encourage us say make we choose our friends well! When our friends love God, we go gain and they go still gain. We go “continue de encourage each other and de make each other strong.”—1 Thessalonians 5:11.
2. How Jehovah go feel with the kind friends wey you choose?
Jehovah de choose e friends well. Bible talk say: “E de make righteous person e tight friend.” (Proverbs 3:32) How Jehovah go feel if we choose people wey no love Jehovah as our friends? E go make Jehovah sad! (Read James 4:4.) But, Jehovah go dey happy and choose us as e friends if we dey close to Jehovah and e friends and we avoid people wey no love Jehovah.—Psalm 15:1-4.
LEARN MORE THINGS
Learn why e dey important to choose good friends and see how you fit choose friends wey go affect your life for good.
3. Dey careful make you no choose bad friends
People wey no love God and e laws na bad friends. Play the VIDEO, and talk about the question for under.
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How we fit start to be friend with bad people even before we notice-am?
Read 1 Corinthians 15:33, and talk about this questions:
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Which kind person fit be bad friend? Why you answer like that?
Read Psalm 119:63, and talk about this question:
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Wetin go show whether person go be better friend for you?
One bad apple fit spoil other apples. How one bad friend fit affect you?
4. People wey no dey the same like us fit be our good friends
Bible talk about two Israel people, David and Jonathan. The two no dey the same age and they no grow for the same way; but they be tight friends. Read 1 Samuel 18:1, and talk about this question:
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How this verse show say we no need to dey the same age or the same level for life with our friends?
Read Romans 1:11, 12, and talk about this question:
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How friends wey love Jehovah de encourage each other?
For this video, see how one young brother see good friends for place wey e no expect. Play the VIDEO, and talk about the questions for under.
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For the video, why the papa and mama of Akil de worry about e friends for school?
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Why Akil first like the friends wey e meet for school?
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Wetin help Akil make e stop to feel say e dey alone?
5. How you fit get good friends
Learn how you fit get good friends and how you too fit be good friend. Play the VIDEO.
Read Proverbs 18:24 and 27:17, and talk about this questions:
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How real friends de help each other?
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You get that kind better friends? If you no get, how you fit get some?
Read Philippians 2:4, and talk about this question:
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To get good friends, you too need to be good friend. How you fit do this one?
To get good friends, you too need to be good friend
SOME PEOPLE DE TALK SAY: “Instead make you no get friend at all, e better make you make anybody your friend.”
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Wetin you go talk?
WETIN THIS LESSON TEACH
When we choose our friends well, we make Jehovah happy and we go still gain.
Wetin You Don Learn
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Why the kind people wey we choose as friends dey important to Jehovah?
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Which kind people we no go choose as our friends?
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How you fit make good people your friends?
LEARN OTHER THINGS
See how good friends fit help us when problems dey.
“Dey Tight With Brothers and Sisters Before the End Come” (The Watchtower, November 2019)
Think of the things wey you fit do to get good friends.
“How I Fit Get Good Friends?” (Questions Young People Ask —Answers That Work, Volume 1, chapter 8)
Wetin you suppose know about internet friends?
For the story wey the title na, “I De Wish Say I Get Papa,” learn about wetin make one man change e friends.
“Bible De Help People Change Their Life” (The Watchtower, April 1, 2012)
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