References for “Live and Preach Meeting Workbook”

References for Live and Preach Meeting Workbook

JULY 7-13

GOOD-GOOD LESSONS FROM THE BIBLE PROVERBS 21

Good-good Advice for Happy Marriage

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How You Can Make Good Decisions?

When we rush to make any decision in life, it can always turn out to be bad. Proverbs 21:5 give us this warning: “The plans of the diligent one surely make for advantage, but everyone that is hasty surely heads for want.” For example, young people who feel that they in love, must take time to think good-good before deciding to marry. Or else, the thing one English playwrighter they called William Congreve from the early 18th century say, that what will happen to them. He say that it not good to rush when it come to marry business. The time it can take to date and get marry it short, but the time it will take to regret will be long.

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How you can make your Marriage to be successful

Be humble. “[Do] nothing out of contentiousness or out of egotism, but with lowliness of mind considering that the others are superior.” (Philippians 2:3) Plenty problem can come in the marriage when one person get big heart. That person can blame their partner for the problem dem instead of bringing theirself down to look for ways to make things better for each other. But when you humble, it can help you to avoid the attitude to always prove that you right when confusion come.

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“Rejoice With the Wife of Your Youth”

¹³ What if the marriage get plenty problem because of the way the two people treating each other? It can’t be easy to solve this kindna problem. For example, maybe it could be because the two people not know how to talk to each other good in the marriage. (Proverbs 12:18) Like what we discuss in the article before this one, this kindna attitude can cause serious problem in the marriage. Proverbs 21:19 say: “Better is it to dwell in a wilderness land than with a contentious wife along with vexation.” If that you the wife in that kindna marriage, think on this question here, ‘I wonder that my attitude making it hard for my husband to be around me?’ The Bible tell the husband dem say: “Keep on loving your wives and do not be bitterly angry with them.” (Colossians 3:19) If that you the husband, think on the question here, ‘I wonder that my attitude making my wife to look for love and attention from different person?’ That true, we not get no excuse to commit sexual immorality. But, for the fact that this kindna thing can happen, that why it good for husband and wife to really sit down and talk about their problem dem.

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Prophesy About God Kingdom That Wor Fulfill

⁹ Jesus that powerful King now-now. He not human being again sitting on the young donkey. The Bible tell us that he ridding on one horse, and in the Bible the horse stand for war. (Proverbs 21:31) Revelation 6:2, say “Look, a white horse and the one seated upon it had a bow; and a crown was given him, and he went forth conquering and to complete his conquest.” Also, when the psalmist David wor talking about Jesus, he say: “The rod of your strength Jehovah will send out of Zion, saying: ‘Go subduing in the midst of your enemies.’”—Psalm 110:2.

JULY 14-20

GOOD-GOOD LESSONS FROM THE BIBLE PROVERBS 22

Good-good Advice on How to Bring Up Children

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I Wonder if They Will Serve Jehovah When They Grow Up?

⁷ If you marry and yor thinking about borning children, think on this question here: ‘We humble and spiritual parents that Jehovah can trust and give us child to take care of?’ (Ps. 127:3, 4) If you already get child or children, think on this question dem: ‘I really teaching my children to know that it important to work hard?’ (Eccl. 3:12, 13) ‘I trying my best to protect my children from the bad-bad thing dem in satan world that can harm them spiritually?’ (Prov. 22:3) It not possible for you to protect your children from all the problem dem they will face. But you can try your best to prepare them small-small for the problem dem they will face in life. And you can do it by teaching them how to look in God Word for advice. (Read Proverbs 2:1-6.) For example, if one of your relative choose to stop serving Jehovah, help your children to learn from the Bible the reason why it important to remain faithful to Jehovah. (Ps. 31:23) Or if somebody you love die, show your children how to use God Word to find comfort and peace when they grieving.—2 Cor. 1:3, 4; 2 Tim. 3:16.

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Parents, Train Your Children to Love Jehovah

¹⁷ Start training Your children From the Time You Born Them. It good for parents to start training their children, when they small. (Prov. 22:6) Think about Timothy, who later on travel with the apostle Paul. Timothy ma, Eunice, and his grandma Lois train him “from infancy.”—2 Tim. 1:5; 3:15.

¹⁸ Jean-Claude and his wife Peace who living in Côte d’Ivoire, wor able to teach all their six children to love and serve Jehovah. Wetin help them to be successful? They follow Eunice and Lois example. They say, “We started inculcating God Word in our children from the time they wor born.”—Deut. 6:6, 7.

¹⁹ What it mean to “inculcate” Jehovah Word in your children? “To inculcate” mean “to teach over and over until it reach the heart.” To do this one, parents need to spend more time with their young children. But sometime we can feel bad when we saying one thing over and over to the children and they not understanding it. Still, parents must try to see this one as another way to help their children dem understand God Word and apply it.

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Parents, Set Good Example for Your Children

To talk the truth, children will be children, some of them can be hardhead, and some of them can even spoil. (Genesis 8:21) Wetin parents can do? The Bible say “Foolishness is tied up with the heart of a boy; the rod of discipline is what will remove it far from him,” (Proverbs 22:15) Some people can say this advice too harsh and that way-back thing. To say the truth, the Bible not support any kindna violence or treating other people bad. So, even though sometimes in the Bible the “rod,” can stand for stick, but in this verse, it stand for the authority parents get to give the right discipline their children need. Parents must stand strong to discipline their children. But, they must do it with love because they care for them and want them to grow up to be good people. —Hebrews 12:7-11.

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Be Happy With What You Able to Do for Jehovah

¹¹ Similarly, we can increase our joy by becoming absorbed in whatever we are given to do in Jehovah’s service. Be “intensely occupied” in the preaching work, and be fully involved in congregation activities. (Acts 18:5; Heb. 10:24, 25) Go to the meetings prepared to give upbuilding comments on the material that is being studied. Take seriously any student assignments you have on the midweek meeting. If you are asked to help out with a certain task in the congregation, be punctual and reliable. Do not treat any assignment you are given as if it were unworthy of your time. Strive to improve your skills. (Prov. 22:29) The more absorbed you are in your spiritual activities and assignments, the quicker you will progress and the greater your joy will be. (Gal. 6:4) You will also find it easier to rejoice with others when they receive a privilege that you would have liked to receive.—Rom. 12:15; Gal. 5:26.

JULY 21-27

GOOD-GOOD LESSONS FROM THE BIBLE PROVERBS 23

Good-good Advice on How to Drink Liquor

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Always Get the Right View About Liquor

⁵ What if somebody can drink liquor, but they careful to not drink and get drunk? Some people can really drink liquor, and it can be hard for them to get drunk. But we will be fooling ourself, if we think that this kindna behavior can’t harm us. (Jeremiah 17:9) Because small-small, people like that can start developing the habit that they can’t go without drinking liquor and they can be “enslaved to a lot of wine.” (Titus 2:3) One woman name Caroline Knapp who can write book, explain how somebody can get use to liquor. She say, ‘That something that you can start getting use to small-small without even knowing that it damaging you.’ This one just show that getting use to drinking too much liquor that dangerous trap!

⁶ Also think about the warning Jesus give: “But yor be careful to not eat too much, drink too much or worry too much about the thing dem your need. So that day can’t come and yor not even know and it be like trap for yor. Because that day will affect everybody all over the world.” (Luke 21:34, 35) Somebody not need to drink and get drunk first, before liquor can affect them and spoil their friendship with Jehovah. Drinking too much liquor can do the same thing too. What if Jehovah day come and meet that person in that kindna condition?

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Getting Drunk

The Bible against it. The Bible talk against drinking strong-strong liquor dem to the point of getting drunk. The wise man who write the book of Proverbs explain the thing dem that can happen to somebody who can drink too much liquor. And the thing he say agree with Science, He say: “Who has woe? Who has uneasiness? Who has contentions? Who has concern? Who has wound for no reason? Who has dullness of eyes? Those staying a long time with the wine, those coming in to search out mixed wine. Do not look at wine when it exhibits a red color, when it gives off its sparkle in the cup [the way the wine can be looking fine in the glass], when it goes with a slickness [the way it can go down in the throat when you drink it]. At its end it bites just like a serpent, and it secretes poison just like a viper [it can make somebody sick, (for example, it can damage the liver) and it can affect the brain, (it can make the person sick in their whole body), and it can surely kill]. Your own eyes will see strange things [liquor can affect the main part of the brain that can control everything in the body. The thing dem the person can’t do when they normal, that it they can start doing. They can start seeing strange things, and anything they explaining, the way they can explain it, can make it look like that true. The person can’t get any control over their behavior], and your own heart will speak perverse things [thing dem that can be in the person heart that normally they will not say, that it they can be talking].”—Pr 23:29-33; Ho 4:11; Mt 15:18, 19.

Solomon continue to explain about the thing dem that can happen to some one who drunk, he say: “And you will certainly become like one lying down in the heart of the sea [just how when somebody leaving in the water they can be confuse untill finally they go off, that how the drunker can be feeling], even like one lying down at the top of a mast [the mast that the long pole that can hold the big cloth that can carry the ship. And climbing on that pole wor dangerous because it can shake bad way, that just how somebody who drunk life can be in danger from accident, stroke, fighting business and so on]. ‘They have struck me, but I did not become sick; they have smitten me, but I did not know it [that what the drunker can be telling hisself because he not know what happening around him, and the thing dem that na happen to him]. When shall I wake up? I shall seek it yet some more [even with all the hang over he suffering from, his heart still on the liquor business. And just how he get small chance, he will get up again and start drinking].’” He will get poor, because he na spend all his money on liquor, people can’t depend on him, and he not able to work again.—Pr 23:20, 21, 34, 35.

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Questions From Readers

That true, sometime greediness can make somebody to get too fat, but it not always the case. Some people can be too fat because they sick, or because of their family background. We must also remember that, when somebody getting too fat, then something wrong with their body. But greediness, that attitude problem. To be too fat, “mean to get too much grease in the body.” And to be greedy, “mean the person not able to control their appetite.” So, the way somebody can behave when it come to food business, that what can make them to be greedy. Somebody can be having their normal body, or they can even be slim, and still be greedy. Also, around the world people get different-different thinking about how normal body weight and shape must be.

JULY 28–AUGUST 3

GOOD-GOOD LESSONS FROM THE BIBLE PROVERBS 24

Prepare Yourself to Face Hard Times

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Bad Treatment

True Christians also grateful for the blessing that Jehovah keeping for those who will remain faithful when they treating them bad. When Jesus wor talking about this blessing, he say, “People who they treat bad for doing the right thing can be happy because the kingdom that in heaven will be for them” (Mt 5:10) True Christians get strong faith because of what they know about the resurrection hope and the person who make this hope possible. It can make them strong to remain faithful to God even if people threaten to kill them because of serving him. And because of their strong faith in what Jesus death na do, it make them to not be scare of dying because of their faith. (Heb 2:14, 15) For us to remain faithful when people who against us put us under pressure, we need to get the same attitude Jesus wor having. The Bible say. “Keep this mental attitude in you that was also in Christ Jesus, who. . . became obedient as far as death, yes, death on a torture stake.” (Php 2:5-8) “For the joy that was set before [Jesus] he endured a torture stake, despising shame.”—Heb 12:2; also see 2Co 12:10; 2Th 1:4; 1Pe 2:21-23.

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Continue to Be Happy Even When You Facing Problem

¹² Proverbs 24:10 say: “Have you shown yourself discouraged in the day of distress? Your power will be scanty.” Another part of Proverb also say: “Because of the pain of the heart there is a stricken spirit.” (Prov. 15:13) Some Christians na get so discourage to the point that, they stop reading the Bible and thinking deep on the thing dem they read. They na stop praying from their heart and they can even stay away from their brother and sister dem. So, it clear that when we continue feeling bad, it can affect us.—Prov. 18:1, 14.

¹³ But, if we get the right thinking, it can help us to focus on the good-good thing dem in our life that will make us to be more happy. David say: “To do your will, O my God, I have delighted.” (Ps. 40:8) We must never stop doing the thing dem that part of our worship to Jehovah, even when things not alright in our life. In fact, when we feeling bad the best thing that can help us, that to do thing dem that can make us happy. Jehovah tell us that we can find real happiness when we read the Bible and study it everyday. (Ps. 1:1, 2; Jas. 1:25) We can learn good-good thing dem from the Bible and from our meetings that can make our heart to lay down and make us happy again.—Prov. 12:25; 16:24.

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Questions From Readers

Proverbs 24:16 says: “The righteous one may fall seven times, and he will get up again.” You think this one talking about somebody who continue to sin and God keep forgiving them?

To talk the truth, that not what this Bible verse saying. It talking about somebody who continue facing problems and hard time, but still trying their best to get back on their feet.

So, the “falling” that Proverbs 24:16 talking about, it not mean to sin over and over, but that to go through problems and hard times even when they continue to happen over and over. In this wicked world we living in, the righteous person can face health problem and other problem dem. He can even face persecution from the government. But, he trust that God will support him and will help him to bear all this problem dem and be successful. Think about it, ‘Ehn you na see how Jehovah can help his people dem when they going through problem?’ Why? Because we sure that “Jehovah supports all who are falling and raises up all who are bowed down.”—Ps. 41:1-3; 145:14-19.

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Questions From Readers

In Bible times, when somebody want “build up his household,” or thinking about getting marry to start his own family, he wor suppose to think on this question, ‘I ready to take care of my wife and support her and maybe the children dem we will born in the future?’ Before thinking about settling down to get his own family, the isrealite man suppose to work hard to get his own land and make his farm. That the reason why the Today’s English Version Bible say: “Don’t build your house and establish a home until your fields are ready, and you are sure that you can earn a living.” So you think this Bible advice apply to us today too?

Yes. Somebody who want marry need to prepare good-good to take care of his family. So long his hand and foot correct, he must work hard. That true, taking care of your family not only mean to work hard with your hand. God Word say, any man who can’t take care of his family, provide for them, and teach them the Bible, he worse than somebody who not get faith! (1 Tim. 5:8) So, to prepare for marriage and family life, it good to think this question dem: ‘I na prepare myself good-good to provide for my family and give them the thing dem they need? I ready to teach my family from the Bible? I ready to be spiritual head for my family?’ I will be able to study the Bible with my wife and children dem all the time? The Bible make it clear that this responsibility dem really important.—Deut. 6:6-8; Eph. 6:4.

So any man who thinking about getting marry, must think good-good about the advice that in Proverbs 24:27. That the same way, the woman too need to think about whether she ready to be wife and mother. People who just get marry must also think on this question dem when they thinking about borning children. (Luke 14:28) Following this advice dem can help God people to avoid too much pain and help them to enjoy their family life together.

AUGUST 4-10

GOOD-GOOD LESSONS FROM THE BIBLE PROVERBS 25

Good-good Advice on how to Talk to People Good

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Use the Power of Your Tongue the Right Way

⁶ Proverbs 25:11 show how it important for us to look for the right time to speak: it say “Like apples of gold in silver carvings is a word spoken at the right time.” When they fix gold in apple shape, it can be fine by itself. And when they put them in silver plate they can even look more beautiful. That the same way when we know the right time to talk, it can make the thing we saying to sound good in people ear and they can want listen to us. How?

⁷ Maybe the thing we saying, that what the person really need to hear, but when we not look for the right time to say it, then what we say will be for nothing. (Read Proverbs 15:23.) For example, in March 2011 one earthquake and tsunami spoil the whole city in the eastern part of Japan. More than 15,000 people die. Jehovah Witnesses suffer too from what happen. But they look for every opportunity to comfort those who wor feeling bad by using the Bible. But most of the people dem that wor there, wor part of the Buddhist religion. They wor not having any idea on the Bible. Our brother dem knew that the time the tsunami just happen, it wor not the best time to talk about the resurrection hope. So, they use their gift of speech to comfort those who wor grieving and they also use the Bible to explain why bad things can happen to innocent people.

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Use the Power of Your Tongue the Right Way

¹⁵ The thing dem we can say and the way we can say it can show that they important. When Jesus wor talking in the synagogue in his hometown of Nazareth, the people wor “surprised at the good-good thing dem he wor saying.” (Luke 4:22) When we talk to people good, it can touch their heart and it can make them to do the things we telling them. In fact, if we know how to talk to people good, then the things we say will be able to convince them. (Prov. 25:15) When we kind, respectful, and think about other people feeling, we will be following Jesus example. When Jesus see the effort the people make to listen to his teaching, he feel sorry for them and he “started to teach them plenty things.” (Mark 6:34) Even when people wor cussing Jesus, he not say anything bad to them.—1 Pet. 2:23.

¹⁶ When we know somebody good-good, it can be hard for us to be kind and show them respect when we talking with them. We can just feel free to talk any kindna way to them. And that just what can happen when we talking with our family member or our close friend in the congregation. You think Jesus use to talk to his disciple dem any kindna way because he wor close to them? No! even when Jesus desciple dem use to argue about who wor more important, he corrected them in a kind way and use the small child example to teach them. (Mark 9:33-37) Elders can follow Jesus example by giving counsel “in a spirit of mildness.”—Gal. 6:1.

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Encourage other People to show Love And do fine Works. How?

⁸ All of us can encourage each other by setting good example in serving our God. Jesus really encourage the people that listen to him. He wor having love for the preaching work and it wor important to him. He say it wor looking just like food for him. (John 4:34; Romans 11:13) This kindna zeal can move other people too. You not think when you happy in the ministry it can encourage other people? Tell other people in the congregation about the good-good thing dem you enjoy in the ministry, but be careful to not boast. If you working with somebody in the field service, look for ways to help them to enjoy talking with other people about our Grand Creator, Jehovah.—Proverbs 25:25.

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Mildness

The person who mild temper can be strong, because he get faith and Jehovah backing him. It can be hard for other people to make him to say or do something bad. But the person who not mild temper can be weak. Also, they not get faith, they not get hope and they quick to get vex. The book of Proverb describe that kindna person, it say: “As a city broken through, without a wall, is the man who cannot control his temper.” (Pr 25:28) It can be easy for that kindna person to start thinking on bad-bad thing dem and end up doing it.

AUGUST 11-17

GOOD-GOOD LESSONS FROM THE BIBLE PROVERBS 26

Stay Far Away From “Somebody Who Stupid”

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Rain

Seasons. The two main season in the Promised Land that wor summer and winter, that what we can call dry season and rainy season. (Compare Ps 32:4; Ca 2:11, ftn.) From the middle part of April to the middle part of October that just small rain can fall. During this time, people can be harvesting and it can be hard for rain to fall. Proverbs 26:1 show that it wor not normal for rain to fall during harvesting time. (Compare 1Sa 12:17-19.) During the rainy season, rain can’t fall everyday, someday the weather can be clear. But during this time it can be cold, so when the rain beat you, you can start trembling. (Ezr 10:9, 13) So, it wor important to get good place to live that will protect you from the rain and the cold.—Isa 4:6; 25:4; 32:2; Job 24:8.

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Discipline Can Bring Good Result

¹² Strong discipline can be good for some people, just how Proverbs 26:3 say it: “A whip is for the horse, a bridle is for the donkey, and the rod is for the back of stupid people.” Sometimes Jehovah use to allow the Israelite dem to suffer because of their own trouble they look for. The Bible say, “For they have rebelled against the word of God, they disrespected the counsel of the Most High. So he humble their heart; through hardship, they stumble and there was no one to help them. They call to Jehovah for help in their distress; he save them from their plague.” (Psalm 107:11-13) But some stupid people can’t accept discipline. And that what Proverb 29:1 say: “A man stiffen his neck after much reprove will suddenly be broken, beyond healing.”

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Cripple, Crippleness

When they use it in parable. King Solomon say: “Like Someone who cripples his own feet and harms himself Is the one who entrust matters to someone stupid.” That true, anybody who tell stupid person to do something for them, that person crippling hisself. He will surely see all his hard work go in vain, and he will blame hisself.—Pr 26:6.

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Fool

Answering somebody who foolish “according to his foolishness” by bringing yourself down to their level to argue with them, will make you just like them. For us to not be like the foolish person, Proverbs 26:4 give us this advice. It say: “Do not answer anyone stupid according to his foolishness.” Also Proverb 26: 5 show that we can answer the foolish one “according to his foolishness” by trying to understand what he saying, and showing him that the thing he saying not make any sense. Like that he hisself will see that the thing he thinking on different from what he saying.

AUGUST 18-24

GOOD-GOOD LESSONS FROM THE BIBLE PROVERBS 27

How We Can Benefit When We Get Good Friends

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Jehovah Value His Humble Servant Dem

¹² Somebody who humble can accept counsel. For example: Imagine you go for meeting to the Kingdom Hall. After lecturing with some of your friend dem, one of them called you on the side and tell you say something on your teeth. That true, you will feel shame small. But ehn you will be grateful that at least the person tell you? In fact, you will even say I wish somebody wor coming to tell me it soon. That the same way we must be humble and grateful when our brother or sister try their best to give us counsel when we need it. We must take that person to be our friend, not our enemy.—Read Proverbs 27:5, 6; Gal. 4:16.

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Neighbor

The book of Proverb advise us that It will be good for us to trust our friend and ask them to help us when we in need. It say: “Do not forsake your friend or your father friend, and do not enter your own brother house on the day of your disaster. Better is a neighbor [sha·khenʹ] nearby than a brother that is far away.” (Pr 27:10) The person who write this book of proverb wor saying that, it better to depend on our close friend who living near us for help than your relative who living far off from you. Because, he will not be prepare or be able to help you like your close friend who living near you.

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Young People, What Kind Na Life Yor Want?

⁷ One lesson we can learn from Jehoash bad decision that to make good friends who will help us to do the right thing. And this friend dem must love Jehovah and try to make Him happy. We can make friends with people who older than us or who we older than. Remember that Jehoash friend Jehoiada was older than him. So if you want be friendly with somebody, ask yourself this question dem: ‘They will help me to get strong faith in Jehovah? They can encourage me to live by God laws? They can talk about Jehovah and the good-good thing dem he put in the Bible? They get respect for God laws? They can just tell me what I want hear, or they can counsel me when I make mistake?’ (Prov. 27:5, 6, 17) To talk the truth, if your friend dem not get love for Jehovah, then you not need their friendship. But if you get friends that love Jehovah, stick to them because they will always help you!—Prov 13:20.

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Interesting Points From the Book of Proverbs

27:21. When people praise us it can show our true color. We can show that we humble when people praise us and we give the praise to Jehovah. And it will help us to continue serving him. But, when people praise us and it make us to start feeling that we too important, then we not humble.

AUGUST 25-31

GOOD-GOOD LESSONS FROM THE BIBLE PROVERBS 28

The Difference Between the Wicked Person and the Righteous Person

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You Following Jehovah with Your Whole heart?

Proverbs 28:1 say, “THE righteous are like a young lion that is confident.” They get faith, they can depend on God Word and continue serving Jehovah even when their life in danger.

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Understanding

People who turning their back on God. When Somebody start doing bad things, they can start forgetting about God when they making decision or planning to do something. (Job 34:27) That kindna person can allow his heart to fool him and start thinking that he not doing anything thing bad. (Ps 36:1-4) Even if he say he worshiping God, he like human being idea more than God idea. (Isa 29:13, 14) He like to make excuse for his bad behavior. (Pr 10:23) He can turn immoral, wicked, and foolish in the way he can think. Infact, he can even start thinking that God can’t see all the bad-bad thing dem he doing. (Ps 94:4-10; Isa 29:15, 16; Jer 10:21) His behavior and action show that he not believe that, “There is Jehovah” (Ps 14:1-3) ‘so he can’t think about God when he doing things.’ And because he not following Bible advice, he not able to see situation and think good-good so he can be able to make good decision.—Pr 28:5.

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Integrity

It possible for someone to remain faithful like this not because they get good way, but because of their strong faith and trust in Jehovah and his power to save people. (Ps 25:21) God promise that he will be a “shield” and “stronghold,” helping those who want remain faithful. (Pr 2:6-8; 10:29; Ps 41:12) People who always want for Jehovah to be happy with them, can be focus in life. And this one can help them to reach their goal. (Ps 26:1-3; Pr 11:5; 28:18) Even though Job say the good people can suffer because of wicked people behavior, and they can die with the wicked people, but Jehovah make it clear that he know all the thing dem that happening to the good people. He promise that the good people will continue to get blessing, their future will be peaceful, and they will enjoy plenty good-good things. (Job 9:20-22; Ps 37:18, 19, 37; 84:11; Pr 28:10) Job example teach us that, when you faithful you can get more value and respect more than when you get plenty material things. (Pr 19:1; 28:6) Children who get parents that faithful, can be happy in life. (Pr 20:7) The good example their father set, can bring respect and good name to the family. And their children can benefit from it.

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You Can Avoid Spiritual Heart Attack

Trusting yourself too much. Plenty people who na suffer from heart attack, wor thinking that they wor alright in their body before it happen to them. Infact they wor even thinking that going to hospital to do check up, wor not important. That the same way, some people who na stay long in serving Jehovah can feel that nothing bad will happen to them spiritually. Because of that they can forget to check theirself spiritually untill they fall in trouble. It good to always remember the advice the apostle Paul give about trusting ourself too much, he say: “So let the one who thinks he is standing beware that he does not fall.” So it will be good for us to remember that we not perfect, and continue to check ourself spiritually from time to time.—1 Corinthians 10:12; Proverbs 28:14.