How We Benefiting From Jehovah Love?

1. Wetin we can do to make Jehovah happy?

IMAGINE that you give somebody you love one special gift that fine and useful. Ehn you will feel bad if the person just put it somewhere and forget about it? But you will be happy if the person use the gift and tell you thank you for it. What the point? Jehovah na give his Son to die for us. Jehovah will really be happy when we tell him thank you for that precious gift and for his love that made him to give us the ransom!—John 3:16; Rom. 5:​7, 8.

2. Wetin we will talk about in this article?

² But after some time, maybe we will start looking at the ransom to not be important gift again. If we do it, it will be just like we putting God beautiful gift somewhere and just forget about it. To stop this one from happening, we must always think about all the good-good thing dem God and Jesus Christ na do for us. And that what this article will help us to do. We will talk about how we benefiting from the ransom now-now and how we will benefit from it in the future. We will also talk about how we can be grateful to Jehovah for his love, especially during this Memorial season.

HOW WE BENEFITING NOW-NOW?

3. What one way we benefiting from the ransom now-now?

³ We already benefiting from Jesus Christ ransom sacrifice. For example, because of the ransom, Jehovah can forgive our sins. He not force to forgive us. But he want do it. The psalmist wor grateful to Jehovah so he say: “For you, O Jehovah, are good and ready to forgive.”—Ps. 86:5; 103:​3, 10-13.

4. Who Jehovah gave the ransom for? (Luke 5:32; 1 Timothy 1:15)

⁴ Sometime, some people can feel that they not fit for Jehovah to forgive them. To talk the truth, all of us not fit for Jehovah to forgive us. The apostle Paul understand that he wor not fit to be call apostle. But he also say, “By God’s undeserved kindness I am what I am.” (1 Cor. 15:​9, 10) When we repent from our sins, Jehovah can forgive us. Why? He can do it because he love us and not because we work for it. But if you feeling sad because you thinking that you not fit for Jehovah to forgive you, remember that Jehovah gave the ransom for people who repent and not for perfect people.—Read Luke 5:32; 1 Timothy 1:15.

5. Explain why we must not feel that Jehovah force to forgive us.

⁵ None of us must feel that we suppose to get Jehovah mercy because we na spend plenty years serving him. But, Jehovah can also remember all the thing dem we been doing for him. (Heb. 6:10) He gave the ransom to us for free. He not give it to pay us for what we been doing in his service. So it wrong to think that because we na do plenty things for Jehovah, then he suppose to forgive us. If we think like that, then we will be saying that Jesus Christ die for nothing.—Compare Galatians 2:21.

6. Why Paul work so hard for Jehovah?

⁶ Paul knew that no matter how much work he do for God, God not force to forgive him. If Paul know this one, then why he wor working so hard for Jehovah? He wor doing it because Jehovah forgive him and wor kind to him, not because Jehovah suppose to do it. (Eph. 3:7) Like Paul, we want continue to work hard for Jehovah because we grateful and not because we want him to show us mercy.

7. What another way we benefiting from the ransom now-now? (Romans 5:1; James 2:23)

⁷ Another way we benefiting from the ransom now-now that, each of us can get close friendship with Jehovah.a The article before this one, help us to see that we wor not born with close friendship with God. But because of the ransom, we can get “peace with God” and draw close to him.—Read Romans 5:1; James 2:23.

8. Why we must be grateful that Jehovah allow us to pray to him?

⁸ One of the thing we enjoying because of our friendship with Jehovah that prayer. Jehovah can hear us when we say public prayer or when we say our own prayer. Prayer can make our heart to lay down and give us peace of mind, but it not the only benefit we can get. It can also make our friendship with God more strong. (Ps. 65:2; Jas. 4:8; 1 John 5:14) When Jesus wor on earth, he always use to pray because he knew that Jehovah wor listening. He also knew that it will continue to make his friendship with his Pa strong. (Luke 5:16) So we grateful that because Jesus die for us, we can be Jehovah friends and even talk with Him!

HOW WE WILL BENEFIT IN THE FUTURE?

9. How Jehovah faithful servants will benefit from the ransom in the future?

⁹ How Jehovah faithful servants will benefit from the ransom in the future? They will get everlasting life. Plenty people think that it not possible to live forever because human being been dying for long time now. But when Jehovah made human being, he wanted them to live forever. If Adam wor not coming sin, nobody wor coming think that it not possible to live forever. That true, it looking like it not possible to live forever. But we convince that we will live forever because Jehovah send his own Son to die for us.—Rom. 8:32.

10. Wetin the anointed Christians and the other sheep hoping to get?

¹⁰ Even though everlasting life that something we will get in the future, Jehovah want us to be thinking about it now-now. The anointed Christian dem hoping to get the kindna life they will enjoy in heaven when they ruling with Jesus Christ over the earth. (Rev. 20:6) The other sheep hoping to see the time they will live in paradise on earth where they will be free from pain and suffering. (Rev. 21:​3, 4) You part of the other sheep that get the hope to live forever on earth? That blessing that not just something to make us feel good, because Jehovah made human being to live on this earth! Yes, living on earth will really make us happy.

11-12. What some blessings we expecting to get in Paradise? (Also see the pictures.)

¹¹ Imagine how life will be looking for you in Paradise on earth. You will not worry about sickness or death again. (Isa. 25:8; 33:24) Jehovah will give you all the good-good thing dem you want. Wetin you want learn about? You want learn about animals, music, or how to draw? We sure that in paradise, we will need farmers and people who can design and build house. We will also need people who can do some other work dem like, preparing food, fixing tools, and making the earth fine. (Isa. 35:1; 65:21) When you living forever, you will get the time to do all the thing dem you want do.

¹² We will really be happy to welcome people who will be coming back to life! (Acts 24:15) Imagine how you will enjoy learning more about Jehovah by studying the different-different thing dem he made. (Ps. 104:24; Isa. 11:9) But the best one that, you will not feel guilty because you will not do anything wrong! You think you will turn your back on all this blessing dem just for “the temporary enjoyment of sin”? (Heb. 11:25) We sure you will not do it! This blessing dem better pass any sacrifice we making now-now. Remember that the Paradise earth not something we will wait for, forever. We sure it will come and we will live there. All this one dem wor not coming be possible if Jehovah not really love us, to give his Son to die for us!

SHOW THAT YOU GRATEFUL FOR JEHOVAH LOVE

13. How we can show to Jehovah that we grateful for his love? (2 Corinthians 6:1)

¹³ How we can show to Jehovah that we grateful for the ransom? We can do it by putting his work first place in our life. (Matt. 6:33) After all, Jesus die “so that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for him who died for them and was raised up.” (2 Cor. 5:15) We not want forget all the thing dem Jehovah na do to show us mercy.—Read 2 Corinthians 6:1.

14. How we can show that we trust Jehovah direction?

¹⁴ We can also show to Jehovah that we grateful for his love by trusting his direction. How we can do it? When we get decisions to make, like the amount of education we want get or the type of work we want do, we must think about what Jehovah want us to do. (1 Cor. 10:31; 2 Cor. 5:7) When we make decisions base on what Jehovah want us to do, our friendship with him and our hope will get more strong.—Rom. 5:​3-5; Jas. 2:​21, 22.

15. During the Memorial season, how we can show that we grateful?

¹⁵ We get another way to show that we grateful for Jehovah love. That to use this Memorial season to show to Jehovah how we grateful for the ransom. Beside planning to be there for the Memorial, we must try to invite other people too. (1 Tim. 2:4) When you invite people to the Memorial, tell them some of the things that will happen there. It good to show them the videos Why Jesus Die? and Remember Jesus Death on jw.org. The elder dem must try hard to invite inactive publishers. Just imagine how everyone in heaven and on earth will be happy to see some of Jehovah lost sheep coming back to him! (Luke 15:​4-7) During the Memorial, we must not only speak to each other, but we must try our best to speak to people who come to the Memorial for the first time, or people who stop coming for long time. We want make them to feel that they welcome there!—Rom. 12:13.

16. Why we must think about doing more in the field service during the Memorial season?

¹⁶ You able to do more for Jehovah during the Memorial season? That fine way to show that you grateful to God and Jesus Christ for all the thing dem they na do for you. The more we go in the field service, that the more we will see Jehovah helping us, and our love for him will get more strong. (1 Cor. 3:9) Also, try your best to do the Memorial Bible reading in the Study the Bible Every Day brochure or in the chart that in the midweek meeting workbook. Maybe you can even use this Bible verse dem to do your personal study.

17. Wetin can make Jehovah happy? (Also see the box “Ways to Show That You Grateful for Jehovah Love.”)

¹⁷ Maybe your situation will not allow you to do all the thing dem we talk about in this article. Remember, Jehovah can’t compare what you able to do with what other people can do. But he can see what in your heart. He can be happy when he see that you really grateful for his precious gift, the ransom.—1 Sam. 16:7; Mark 12:​41-44.

18. Why we must be grateful to Jehovah God and Jesus Christ?

¹⁸ That only because of the ransom Jehovah can forgive our sins, we can get good friendship with him, and get the hope to live forever. Let always show that we grateful for Jehovah love because that it move him to give all this blessing dem. (1 John 4:19) Let also show that we grateful for Jesus who really love us and die for us!—John 15:13.