LESSON 57
Wetin We Suppose Do if We Commit Serious Sin?
Even though say you love Jehovah with all your heart and you de try hard make you no do anything wey go pain Jehovah, sometimes you go still make mistake. But some sin serious pass other ones. (1 Corinthians 6:9, 10) If you commit any serious sin, remember say Jehovah never stop to love you; e still ready to forgive and help you.
1. Wetin we must do if we want make Jehovah forgive us?
People wey love Jehovah de always feel bad when they know say they don commit serious sin. But wetin Jehovah promise e people de make their heart calm down. Jehovah talk say: “Even if wuna sin be like red color, I go make-am white like snow.” (Isaiah 1:18) If we repent from our heart Jehovah go forgive us. Wetin e mean to repent? Na when we feel bad about the thing wey we do, stop to do-am and beg Jehovah make e forgive us. After, we go work hard to change the way we de think or do things wey make us sin, and we go try to live our life for the clean way wey Jehovah want.—Read Isaiah 55:6, 7.
2. How Jehovah de use the elders to help us when we sin?
If we commit serious sin, Jehovah tell us say make we “meet the elders for the congregation.” (Read James 5:14, 15.) This elders love Jehovah and they love servants of Jehovah. Jehovah don teach them wetin them go do to help us when we sin so that our friendship with Jehovah go strong again.—Galatians 6:1.
How the elders de help us when we commit serious sin? Two or three elders go use Bible correct us. Them go still encourage us and give us some advice from Bible. This advice go help us make we no sin again. But if person no gree stop the bad thing wey e de do, the elders go remove the person from the congregation to protect the congregation.
LEARN MORE THINGS
Try understand how Jehovah de help us when we commit serious sin and how we fit show say we dey happy for this help wey Jehovah de give us.
3. When we confess our sin e de help us be friend with Jehovah again
Any sin wey we commit de pain Jehovah, so e go make sense make we confess to Jehovah. Read Psalm 32:1-5, and talk about this question:
-
Instead make we de hide our sins, why e good make we confess them to Jehovah?
When we meet the elders after we don confess our sins to Jehovah, this one de make us feel better. Play the VIDEO, and talk about the question for under.
-
For the video, how the elders help Canon to come back to Jehovah?
The elders really want help us so we go need to talk true and tell them everything wey happen. Read James 5:16, and talk about this question:
-
When we tell the elders the truth, how this one go make-am easy for them to help us?
Confess your sin, tell the elders the truth and allow make Jehovah help you with love
4. Jehovah de show mercy to sinners
If person commit serious sin and no want follow wetin Jehovah want, them go remove the person from the congregation, and we no go de do things with-am. Read 1 Corinthians 5:6, 11, and talk about this question:
-
Just the way yeast de affect bread and make-am rise, if we continue to do things with person wey no gree repent, how this one go affect the congregation?
To copy the kind mercy wey Jehovah de show to sinners, elders de try their best to help people wey them don remove from the congregation. Plenty people wey they remove from the congregation later come back to the congregation. Why? Because even though say e pain them as they remove them from the congregation, this one help them know say wetin them do no correct.—Psalm 141:5.
How the way Jehovah de treat sinners show say e dey ready to help, de show mercy, and de show love?
5. Jehovah de forgive us when we repent
Jesus use one example wey help us understand how Jehovah de feel when person repent. Read Luke 15:1-7, and talk about this question:
-
Wetin this place teach you about Jehovah?
Read Ezekiel 33:11, and talk about this question:
-
Which important thing person must do to show say e don repent?
Like shepherd, Jehovah de really care about e sheep
SOME PEOPLE DE TALK SAY: “If I tell elders wetin I do, they go remove me from the congregation.”
-
Wetin you go tell person wey de feel that way?
WETIN THIS LESSON TEACH
If we commit serious sin and we really dey sorry and we make up our mind say we no go do the bad things again, Jehovah go forgive us.
Wetin You Don Learn
-
Why e good make we confess our sins to Jehovah?
-
Wetin we need to do so that Jehovah go forgive our sins?
-
If we commit serious sin, why e good make we meet the elders make they help us?
LEARN OTHER THINGS
See how one man feel the pity wey Jehovah de show as e dey for Isaiah (1:18).
How the elders de try to help people wey commit serious sin?
“How Elders De Show Love and Mercy to Person Wey Commit Serious Sin” (Watchtower, August 2024)
See how the congregation de show love and mercy to person wey them don remove from the congregation?
“How Elders Fit Help People Wey Them Don Remove From Congregation” (Watchtower, August 2024)
For the story wey the title na “I See Say I Need to Come Back to Jehovah,” learn why one man wey comot from the truth feel say na Jehovah bring-am back.
“Bible De Help People Change Their Life” (The Watchtower, April 1, 2012)
You May Also Like
QUESTIONS WEY PEOPLE DE ASK
How the Bible Study Wey Jehovah Witness De Do With People De Be?
You fit use any Bible translation when you de do free Bible study with Jehovah Witness. You fit tell all your family or friends to join you for the study.
