1. How one boy show say e get hope say God go bring-am back to life even if e die?

 ONE boy wey e name na Matthew get one serious sickness wey make-am do plenty operation. When e dey seven years, e watch one JW Broadcasting with e family. For the end of the JW Broadcasting, they watch one music video wey show how we go welcome our people wey don die back to life. b After them don watch the program finish, Matthew go meet e mama and papa, e hold their hand and tell them say, “Wuna see? Even if I die, Jehovah go still bring me back to life. So, make wuna no worry, wuna go see me again.” Just think how this papa and mama go don feel as them see say their pikin get strong faith say if e die, Jehovah go bring-am come back to life.

2-3. Why e good make we de think about wetin God promise us say e go bring people wey don die back to life?

² E good make we de always think about wetin God promise us for Bible say E go bring people wey don die back to life. (John 5:28, 29) Why? Because we no know when we fit get serious sickness or somebody wey we love fit die. (Eccl. 9:11; Jas. 4:13, 14) The promise say people wey don die go come back to life fit help us endure when this kind thing happen to us. (1 Thess. 4:13) Bible tell us say our Papa for heaven know us well-well and e really love us. (Luke 12:7) So Jehovah go fit bring people wey don die back to life with the same character wey them get before they die and make them remember the things wey they know before because e really know them well. Jehovah love us well-well so e don make-am possible for us to live forever. Even if we die, e go bring us back to life.

³ For this article, we go talk about three things, (1) why we  suppose believe the promise say people wey don die go come back to life, (2) wetin we fit learn from wetin Jesus tell Mary and Martha when e say “Your brother go come back to life”? (John 11:23) and (3) how we fit make our faith say God go bring people wey don die, back to life strong more-more?

4. Wetin go help us believe say person go do wetin e promise us? Give example.

⁴ To believe say person go do wetin e promise you, you must dey sure say the person wey make the promise really want do wetin e promise and say e get the power or e go fit do wetin e promise. For example, just think-am say one strong breeze scatter your house. So one of your friend come meet you and promise you say e go help you build your house again. E dey serious and you dey sure say e really want help you. If na person wey de build house and e get the things wey e fit use build the house, you know say e go really fit help you. This one go make you believe wetin e promise you. What about Jehovah promise say e go bring people wey don die back to life? You think say e really want do-am and say e get the power to do-am?

5-6. Why we fit dey sure say Jehovah really want bring people wey don die back to life?

⁵ Na true say Jehovah really want bring people wey don die back to life? Yes, e de hungry Jehovah to do-am. E use holy spirit move some people wey write Bible, to write about e promise say e go bring people wey don die back to life. (Isa. 26:19; Hos. 13:14; Rev. 20:11-13) And when Jehovah make any promise, e de always do wetin e promise. (Josh. 23:14) E really de hungry Jehovah to bring people wey don die, back to life. Why we talk like that?

⁶ Think about wetin Job talk. Job dey sure say even if e die, Jehovah really want bring-am back to life. (Job 14:14, 15) Na so e de hungry Jehovah today to bring all e servant wey don die back to life. And when e bring them back to life, them no go sick again and them go really happy. What about all the people wey no get the chance to learn about Jehovah before them die, e go bring them back to life? Yes, because of e love, e really want bring them back to life. (Acts 24:15) E want give them the chance to be e friend and live forever for this earth. (John 3:16) So e clear say Jehovah really want bring people wey don die, back to life.

7-8. Why we fit dey sure say Jehovah get power to bring people wey don die back to life?

⁷ Jehovah get power to bring people wey don die back to life? Yes! Na Jehovah be the Almighty. (Rev. 1:8) So e get power to remove all our enemy, even death. (1 Cor. 15:26) This one de really make our mind come down and give us the power to endure. Think about wetin happen to Sister Emma Arnold. For the time of World War II, Sister Emma and e family face plenty problem wey test their faith. Sister Emma try make e pikin mind come down when some of e people die for the camp wey Nazi government de suffer people. Sister Emma talk say: “If to say Jehovah no go fit bring people wey don die back to life, this one for mean say death get power pass Jehovah, no be so?” True-true, nothing get power pass Jehovah! Jehovah, wey be Almighty God and wey give us life get the power to bring people wey don die, back to life.

⁸ Another reason why we dey sure say Jehovah go fit bring people wey don die back to life, na because e no de forget anything. E de remember the name of all the stars. (Isa. 40:26) E still de remember all the people wey don die. (Job 14:13; Luke 20:37, 38) E easy for Jehovah  to remember everything about the people wey e go bring back to life, even small things about them. E go fit remember even the way them de do things before, things wey don happen to them, and things wey dey their mind before them die.

9. Why you believe say Jehovah go bring people wey don die back to life as e don promise?

⁹ We dey sure say Jehovah go bring people wey don die back to life because we know say e really want bring them back to life and e get the power to do-am. Another reason why we believe say Jehovah go bring people wey die back to life as e promise, na because e don do-am before. For Bible time, Jehovah give Jesus and some other people power to bring people wey don die back to life. Make we see example of one man wey Jesus bring back to life wey them write for John chapter 11.

10. Wetin happen when Jesus go preach for the other side of River Jordan, and wetin e do? (John 11:1-3)

¹⁰ Read John 11:1-3. Think about wetin happen for Bethany for near the end of 32 C.E. Some of Jesus friends de stay for Bethany, them be Lazarus and e sisters Mary and Martha. (Luke 10:38-42) But Lazarus begin sick and this one really make e sisters worry. So them send people to tell Jesus say Lazarus de sick and this one go take the people about two days to travel from Bethany go reach the other side of River Jordan where Jesus dey. (John 10:40) But Lazarus die around the time wey the people reach where Jesus dey. Even though say Jesus know say e friend don die, e still stay two days before e travel go Bethany. So by the time wey Jesus reach Bethany, e don reach four days since Lazarus die. Jesus want do wetin go make e friends happy and make people praise God.—John 11:4, 6, 11, 17.

11. Which lesson we fit learn about to be better friend from this story?

¹¹ For this story, we learn how to be better friend. Just think-am: When Mary and Martha send people go meet Jesus, them no tell-am say make e come Bethany. They only send the people make them tell-am say e friend de sick. (John 11:3) When Lazarus die, Jesus for fit bring-am back to life from the other side of River Jordan where e dey. But Jesus decide to go meet them for Bethany. You get friend wey ready to help you even when you never tell-am say make e help you? Then know say you fit trust this kind friend “when problem dey.” (Prov. 17:17) Just like Jesus, make we too be that kind friend to other people. Now make we talk more about this story and see the next thing wey happen.

12. Wetin Jesus tell Martha, and why Martha fit believe-am? (John 11:23-26)

¹² Read John 11:23-26. When Martha hear say Jesus don near Bethany, e run go meet-am and tell-am say: “Lord, if you be dey here, my brother no for die.” (John 11:21) Na true say if to say Jesus dey there, e for heal Lazarus. But now wey Lazarus don die, Jesus want do something wey really dey wonderful pass that one. E tell Martha say: “Your brother go come back to life.” E still tell Martha wetin go help-am believe  this promise, e say: “Na me be the resurrection and the life.” This one mean say God don give Jesus the power to bring people wey don die, back to life. Before this time, Jesus don bring one small girl wey just die, back to life. And e don still bring one young man wey die back to life the same day wey the man die. (Luke 7:11-15; 8:49-55) But, you think say e go fit bring person wey don die after four days back to life, when the person don start to de rotten?

13. As e dey for John 11:32-35, wetin Jesus do when e see Mary and other people de cry? (Still check the picture.)

¹³ Read John 11:32-35. Think about the next thing wey happen. Lazarus other sister wey be Mary still go meet Jesus and tell-am the same thing wey Martha talk, e say: “Lord, if to say you dey here, my brother no for die.” Mary and the people wey dey with-am, de cry. E really pain Jesus when e see and hear as them de cry. Because of the way e feel for e friends, e too start to cry. E really understand how we de feel when person wey we love die. We dey sure say e really want do something wey go make e friends happy again.

14. As Jesus cry when e see Mary de cry, wetin e teach us about Jehovah?

¹⁴ Wetin Jesus do when e see as Mary de cry teach us say Jehovah really de feel our pain. Why we talk like that? As we see for the article before this one, Jesus copy e Papa example well-well for the way e de think and feel for people. (John 12:45) Jesus cry because e pain-am when e see e friends de cry because their brother don die. This one teach us say e de pain Jehovah well-well to see us cry when person wey we love die. (Ps. 56:8) This one no move you to want near Jehovah more-more?

15. As e dey for John 11:41-44, wetin happen when Jesus reach where them bury Lazarus? (Still check the picture.)

¹⁵ Read John 11:41-44. When Jesus reach the place wey them bury Lazarus, e say make them remove the big stone wey they use cover the place. But Martha talk say Lazarus go don de smell. Then Jesus ask Martha say: “I no tell you before say if you believe you go see the power of God?” (John 11:39, 40) Jesus look heaven and pray to God. E do this one because  e want make the people praise Jehovah for wetin e want do. Then Jesus call Lazarus. E talk say: “Lazarus, come out!” and Lazarus come out from where them bury-am. Nobody ever think say Jesus go fit bring Lazarus back to life.—Check study note for John 11:17. (For English.)

16. How the story wey dey John chapter 11 fit make our faith strong say God go bring people wey don die back to life?

¹⁶ The story wey dey John chapter 11 make our faith strong for the promise say God go bring people wey don die back to life. How? Remember wetin Jesus tell Martha, e say: “Your brother go come back to life.” (John 11:23) Just like Jehovah, Jesus really want bring people wey don die back to life and e get the power to do-am. As Jesus cry when Lazarus die, e show say e really de hungry-am to remove death and the pain wey e de cause. And as Jesus bring Lazarus back to life, e show say Jesus get the power to bring people wey don die back to life. Still think about wetin Jesus tell Martha, e say: “I no tell you before say if you believe you go see the power of God?” (John 11:40) We get plenty reason to believe say God promise to bring people wey don die back to life, go happen. So wetin we fit do so that our faith for this promise go de strong more-more?

17. Wetin we need to put for mind as we de read about the story of people wey God bring back to life for Bible time?

¹⁷ Read and think deep about story of people wey Jehovah bring back to life for Bible. Bible talk about eight people wey God bring back to life, to live for this earth. c Make you take time study them well. When you de do this one, make you remember say them be people like us, some of them na men, some na women, and even children. Try learn some lessons from their story. Think about how each of the story show say God really want bring people wey  don die back to life and say e get the power to do-am. And make you no forget to think about how God bring Jesus back to life, because na Jesus own dey important pass the other people own. Remember say when Jehovah bring Jesus back to life, plenty people see-am. This na strong reason wey make us get faith say Jehovah go bring people wey don die back to life.—1 Cor. 15:3-6, 20-22.

18. How you fit gain from our song them wey talk about the hope for people wey don die? (Check the footnote.)

¹⁸ Learn our songs wey talk about the hope for people wey don die. d (Eph. 5:19) This songs de make our faith strong say God go bring people wey don die back to life. Listen to this our songs and learn how to sing them. For wuna family worship, make wuna talk about wetin the songs de teach wuna. Try cram the songs. If you de face serious problem for life or person wey you love die, Jehovah go use e spirit help you remember the song them. When you sing them, e go make your mind come down and make your faith strong.

19. When you think about the time wey God go bring people wey die back to life, wetin de come your mind? (Check the box wey be “ Wetin You Go Ask Them?”)

¹⁹ De think about how life go be for paradise. Jehovah don make us for the way wey we fit de see ourself for the new world. One sister talk say, “I de use plenty time think about myself for paradise sotey e be like say, I de smell the flowers for there.” Just think-am say you de talk to people from Bible time wey Jehovah bring back to life for paradise. Which of them you go like to meet? Which questions you go like ask-am? Try to see yourself together again for paradise with your people wey God bring back to life. Think about wetin wuna go do together when wuna just meet. How wuna go hug each other, wetin wuna go first talk about and how wuna go happy to see each other.

20. Wetin we suppose make up our mind to do?

²⁰ We really thank Jehovah as e don promise to bring our people wey don die back to life! We trust Jehovah with all our heart say e go do wetin e promise because e de hungry-am to bring our people wey don die back to life and e get the power to do-am. Make we make up our mind to continue to make our faith for this promise strong more-more. This one go help us near our God wey don promise each of us say, ‘Your person wey die go come back to life!’