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FEBRUARY 4-10
FINE-FINE LESSON FROM BIBLE | ROMANS 1-3
“Continue De Train Your Conscience”
(Romans 2:14, 15) Because when people wey they no be Jew, and wey no get the law, use their mind do things wey e dey the law, even though they no get law, they don be law for theirself. 15 Na this people de show say God write things wey e concern the law for their heart. And as their conscience still join de tell them, they fit de think say things wey they don do, dey good or bad.
lvs 18 ¶6
Get Clean Conscience With God
6 Even people wey they no de worship Jehovah know say some things bad and some good. Bible talk say: “They fit de think say things wey they don do, dey good or bad.” (Romans 2:14, 15) For example, plenty people know say na bad thing to thief or to kill. But they fit no know say na that conscience wey Jehovah don put inside them, de help them sabi say something good or bad. And they still de follow the principles wey Jehovah don give people to help them make good decision for life.
(Romans 2:15) Na this people de show say God write things wey e concern the law for their heart. And as their conscience still join de tell them, they fit de think say things wey they don do, dey good or bad.
lvs 19-20 ¶8-9
Get Clean Conscience With God
8 Some people think say to follow their conscience mean say they go do anything wey they feel say e good. They think say they fit do anything wey they want, if the thing good for their eye. But because we no dey perfect, the way we de feel fit deceive us. The way we de feel fit strong sotey e affect our conscience. Bible talk say: “The heart de deceive pass any other thing, and e hard to control, who fit understand-am?” (Jeremiah 17:9) So we fit start de think say something good even though e bad. For example, before Paul come be Christian, e really suffer servants of God, and e be believe say na the correct thing e de do. For e mind, e get good conscience. But after, Paul talk say na Jehovah de check e heart. (1 Corinthians 4:4; Acts 23:1; 2 Timothy 1:3) Na when Paul know how Jehovah de feel about things wey e de do, na that time e know say e need to change e life. So e good say before we do something, make we ask ourself say, ‘Wetin Jehovah want make I do?’
9 When you love person, you no go want do things wey go make the person vex. Because we love Jehovah, we no want do anything wey go vex Jehovah. Make we make up our mind say we no go do things wey go vex Jehovah. Na wetin we learn from Nehemiah. As governor, Nehemiah no use e position make e self rich. Why? E talk say na because e de fear Jehovah. (Nehemiah 5:15) Nehemiah no want do anything wey e go vex Jehovah. Like Nehemiah, we too de fear to make Jehovah vex. When we de read Bible, we go learn things wey go make Jehovah glad.—Check Endnote 6.
Fine-Fine Things Wey You See for Bible
(Romans 3:4) E no fit happen! But make God be the one wey de talk true, even though everybody de talk lie, just as they write say: “So that they go see say you dey righteous for things wey you talk, and so that you go win when they lie against you.”
w08 6/15 30 ¶5
Lesson From the Book of Romans
3:4. When things wey people talk no match with things wey Bible talk, we go “make God be the one wey de talk true.” This one mean say we go trust Bible, and de do things wey God want. If we put all our heart for the preaching work and de help people be disciples of Jesus, we fit help them see say na God de talk true.
(Romans 3:24, 25) but because God don favor them, e de see them as righteous people and this one na free gift, because Jesus Christ don pay to free them from sin. 25 God be use Jesus Christ as sacrifice to make peace with us. And we go get this peace, if we put faith for the blood of Jesus. God do this one to show say e dey righteous, because e don de forgive the sin wey people be sin for olden days, as e dey patient with them.
w08 6/15 29 ¶6
Lesson From the Book of Romans
3:24, 25—How sacrifice of Jesus fit cover the sin of people wey they live for olden days before Jesus die? For Genesis 3:15, Bible talk how Jehovah go save us from sin, and this one happen for 33 C.E. when they kill Jesus. (Gal. 3:13, 16) From the time wey Jehovah make this promise, e just be like say e don already happen, because nothing fit stop Jehovah make e no do things wey e don promise. So even before Jesus come sacrifice e life, Jehovah fit forgive the sin of people wey they put faith for the promise. Because of this sacrifice, God go resurrect people wey they don die before the time of Jesus.—Acts 24:15.
FEBRUARY 11-17
FINE-FINE LESSON FROM BIBLE | ROMANS 4-6
“God Show E Love for Us”
(Romans 5:8) Na this way God show e love for us: When we still be sinners, Christ die for us.
(Romans 5:12) Na from one man sin enter this world, and sin cause death, na e make everybody de die because they don sin—.
w11 6/15 12 ¶5
“God Show E Love for Us”
5 When Paul de talk about this matter, e start with this point: “Na from one man sin enter this world, and sin cause death, na e make everybody de die because they don sin.” (Rom. 5:12) We know this one because Jehovah use some people write how our life start. Na Adam and Eve be the first people wey Jehovah make. Just as Jehovah no get sin, they no get sin. They come be our first-first papa and mama. Na only one thing God say make they no do. E tell them say if they do-am, they go die. (Gen. 2:17) But, they no do the simple thing wey God say make they do. This one show say they no want make Jehovah de give them law again or be their King.—Deut. 32:4, 5.
(Romans 5:13, 14) Because sin dey this world before the Law come, but if law no dey, they no go hold person say e don sin. 14 But death rule as king from Adam go reach Moses. Death even rule people wey their sin no be like the one wey Adam do, when e disobey God. Adam be like the person wey God don promise say e go come.
w11 6/15 12 ¶6
“God Show E Love for Us”
6 Adam don already sin before e born children. Because of this one, e give all e pikin sin, and all the problem wey de come with sin. E clear say na Adam disobey the law of God for garden of Eden, no be e children. So no be the sin wey Adam sin, God de use judge e pikin them; even self, God never write any law down, that time. (Gen. 2:17) But the truth na say, Adam children don already get sin from Adam. Na e make, sin and death be rule as king till God give Israel people the Law. And this law really show say they be sinners. (Read Romans 5:13, 14.) The sin wey we get from Adam don really affect us. Make we use the example of sickle cell disease wey pikin fit get from e mama and papa explain-am. The truth be say, no be all the children for this kind family go get sickle cell. The disease fit dey inside some of them, but e no go affect them. But sin no dey like that. All the children of Adam get-am. We no fit run from sin. The result of this sin na death. And e de pass from one generation to another. Who go fit cure this disease wey we get?
(Romans 5:18) Just as the sin of one man condemn all kind of people, na so the righteous thing wey one man do, make God call all kind of people righteous, so that they go get life.
(Romans 5:21) For which reason? So that as sin be rule as king and de make people die, na so favor from God fit rule as king to make people dey righteous make they live forever, by the power of Jesus Christ our Lord.
w11 6/15 13 ¶9-10
“God Show E Love for Us”
9 Romans 5:16, 18 talk say God go call people ‘righteous,’ wetin the two Greek word for this verse mean? One Bible translator write about this two word. E talk say: “This two word resemble wetin they fit use judge person for court. E de explain how the way God de look person fit change, no be whether the person don change how e de live e life . . . E just be like say God na judge for court. And people bring one man wey e do bad, make God judge e case. But God talk say make they leave the man make e go.”
10 Why God wey be righteous ‘Judge of the whole earth’ go say make they leave person wey e do bad? (Gen. 18:25) The first thing wey God do, so that this kind thing fit happen, na to send e special Son come this earth. Jesus do exactly wetin God want make e do, even though e face temptation, insult and other bad things. E maintain e faith sotey they kill-am for torture stake. (Heb. 2:10) As Jesus no ever sin and e sacrifice e life for us, e pay the price so that we go free from the sin and death wey Adam don give us.—Matt. 20:28; Rom. 5:6-8.
Fine-Fine Things Wey You See for Bible
(Romans 6:3-5) Or wuna no know say we all wey don baptize and don be one with Christ Jesus, baptize so that we go die the way e die? 4 So as we baptize make we die as e die, they don bury us with Jesus, so that just as the Father use e power resurrect Christ, na so we too go de live new life. 5 If we don be one with Jesus so that we go die as e die, then we go surely be one with Jesus to resurrect as e resurrect.
w08 6/15 29 ¶7
Lesson From the Book of Romans
6:3-5—Wetin e mean for person to baptize and be one with Christ Jesus and baptize so that e go die the way Jesus die? For disciples of Jesus to be one with Jesus, Jehovah go use holy spirit anoint them. And they go come be part of the congregation of people wey Jehovah don anoint. Bible call this congregation ‘the body of Christ’ and e still talk say Jesus na ‘the head’ of the congregation. (1 Cor. 12:12, 13, 27; Col. 1:18) Na so them take de baptize so that they and Christ Jesus go be one. Anointed Christians still de ‘baptize so that they go die as Jesus die.’ This one mean say them de leave plenty things so that they fit worship God well and they even ready to sacrifice their life for God. And they no get hope again say they go live forever for this earth. So, their death just be like Jesus own, even though their death no de save anybody from sin. This their baptism go complete, when they die and resurrect go heaven.
(Romans 6:7) Because when person die, e don free from e sin.
w14 6/1 11 ¶1
I Go Ever See My First-First Papa Them, Wey Don Die?
When bad people go resurrect, they go judge them with things wey they do before they die? No. Romans 6:7 talk say: “Because when person die, e don free from e sin.” This bad people don pay for their sin as they die. So na things wey they do after they resurrect, God go use judge them. God no go use things wey they do before they die because that time, they no know say e bad. Wetin they go gain?
FEBRUARY 18-24
FINE-FINE LESSON FROM BIBLE | ROMANS 7-8
“You ‘De Wait With All Your Heart’?”
(Romans 8:19) Because things wey God make de wait with all their heart for when the glory of the sons of God go dey clear.
w12 7/15 11 ¶17
You Go Gree Make God Give You Real Freedom?
17 When Paul de talk about the freedom wey Jehovah go give e people, e write say: “Because things wey God make de wait with all their heart for when the glory of the sons of God go dey clear.” E still talk say: “The things wey God make go dey free from sin and they no go be slave again. They go get the wonderful freedom wey the children of God get.” (Rom. 8:19-21) For this verse, “the things wey God make” na people wey they get hope say they go live forever for this earth. And they go gain when “the glory of the sons of God go dey clear.” “The glory of the sons of God go dey clear” when they go join Jesus for heaven to remove all wickedness for this earth. And they go help the “great crowd” enter the new world.—Rev. 7:9, 14.
(Romans 8:20) Because God be make all things wey e create to face useless life, but no be say na so they want-am, but na so God want-am, because e don give them hope.
w12 3/15 23 ¶11
We De Glad for the Hope Wey We Get
11 Jehovah give all people hope. E promise say e go use the “seed” save us from Satan the Devil, wey Bible call “the original serpent.” (Rev. 12:9; Gen. 3:15) Jesus Christ na the main person wey e do the work of that “seed.” (Gal. 3:16) As Jesus die and e resurrect, e give us correct hope say we go free from sin and death. This freedom from sin and death get connection with the time wey “the glory of the sons of God go dey clear.” Anointed Christians go still join do the work of the “seed.” Their ‘glory go dey clear’ when they join Jesus destroy this wicked world wey Satan de rule. (Rev. 2:26, 27) This one go save the other sheep wey they come out from the great tribulation.—Rev. 7:9, 10, 14.
(Romans 8:21) so that the things wey God make go dey free from sin and they no go be slave again. They go get the wonderful freedom wey the children of God get.
w12 3/15 23 ¶12
We De Glad for the Hope Wey We Get
12 For the one thousand years wey Jesus go rule, we go really dey free! Another way, wey the “glory of the sons of God go dey clear,” be say that time, they go join Jesus do the work of priest. Then we go enjoy the benefit of the sacrifice of Jesus. When the Kingdom of God go de rule, we go start to free from sin and death and this one go happen small-small. If we do things wey Jehovah want, go reach the end of the one thousand years and the final test, Jehovah no go ever remove our name from the “scroll of life.” That time we go enjoy “the wonderful freedom wey the children of God get.” (Rev. 20:7, 8, 11, 12) This na really fine hope!
Fine-Fine Things Wey You See for Bible
(Romans 8:6) Because to put mind for things of the flesh, de bring death, but to put mind for things of the spirit, de bring life and peace.
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You Remember?
Wetin be the difference between “to put mind for things of the flesh” and “to put mind for things of the spirit”? (Rom. 8:6)
Person wey e de put e “mind for things of the flesh,” de always think and talk about things wey e like. But person wey e de put e “mind for things of the spirit,” de always think about things wey e concern God and e de live e life the way God want-am. That kind Christian get the spirit of God. “To put mind for things of the flesh” de bring death but “to put mind for things of the spirit” de bring life and peace.—w16.12, pp. 15-17.
(Romans 8:26, 27) Na the same way, the spirit still de help us when we dey weak, because the problem na say we no know wetin we go pray for. For that kind time, even though we no know wetin we go talk to show the thing wey de worry us for heart, the spirit de help us. 27 But God wey de see the heart understand wetin the meaning of the spirit be because the spirit de beg for the holy ones, according to wetin God want.
w09 11/15 7 ¶20
Wetin Your Prayers De Show About You?
20 Sometimes, when we de pray alone, we fit no know wetin we go talk. Paul write say: “The problem na say we no know wetin we go pray for. For that kind time, even though we no know wetin we go talk to show the thing wey de worry us for heart, the spirit de help us. But God wey de see the heart understand wetin the meaning of the spirit be.” (Rom. 8:26, 27) Jehovah use people write plenty prayer for Bible. Jehovah de hear and answer this kind prayer from Bible, when we use them pray, like say na our prayer. Jehovah know us and e understand the meaning of the things wey e spirit direct people to write for Bible. Jehovah de answer our prayer when the spirit “de beg” for us. But the more we de learn Bible, the more e go dey easy make we know wetin we go talk for prayer.
FEBRUARY 25–MARCH 3
FINE-FINE LESSON FROM BIBLE | ROMANS 9-11
“The Lesson of the Olive Tree”
(Romans 11:16) Another thing na say, if the part of the bread wey they sacrifice as firstfruit dey holy, e mean say the whole bread still dey holy; and if the root dey holy, e mean say all the branch still dey holy.
w11 5/15 23 ¶13
‘O Jehovah, Your Sense Really Deep!’
13 Apostle Paul compare the people wey they go be part of the seed of Abraham to branch of olive tree. (Rom. 11:21) This olive tree wey they plant for garden, stand for things wey Jehovah do to make e agreement with Abraham, happen the way e want-am. The root of the tree dey holy and e stand for Jehovah, because na Jehovah de give life to the ‘Israel of God.’ (Isa. 10:20; Rom. 11:16) The main part of the tree (the trunk) stand for Jesus Christ because na Jesus be the main part of the seed of Abraham. All the branch for the tree, stand for “the complete number” of all people wey dey among the other part of the seed of Abraham.
(Romans 11:17) So, if God don cut off some of the branch from the true olive tree, and e take wuna join the rest of the branch, even though wuna first be bush olive tree, and wuna come de enjoy the good things from the root of the true olive tree,
(Romans 11:20, 21) Na true! But God cut them off because they no get faith, but wuna still dey because of wuna faith. So make wuna no de proud, but make wuna fear God. 21 Because if God cut off the original branch of the olive tree, e fit still cut wuna off.
w11 5/15 24 ¶15
‘O Jehovah, Your Sense Really Deep!’
15 So, wetin Jehovah do, so that wetin e want go happen? Paul talk say Jehovah first cut off some branch from the olive tree wey e plant for garden. After, e take some branch from bush olive tree put for place wey the branch wey e cut off, be dey. (Read Romans 11:17, 18.) So, Jehovah take anointed Christians wey they no be Jew, and e put them for that olive tree. Some of this anointed Christians dey the congregation for Rome that time. Na so Jehovah make them part of the seed of Abraham. They first be like those branch wey Jehovah take from bush olive tree, wey no get any chance to be part of this special agreement. But Jehovah use ‘e spirit circumcise their heart’ even though they no born them as Jew. This one make Jehovah de see them as Jew.—Rom. 2:28, 29.
(Romans 11:25, 26) Brothers, I want make wuna know this holy secret so that wuna no go de do like say wuna over get sense: Some Israel people no gree listen, and they go remain like that until all people wey they no be Israel people wey God don choose, go complete, 26 and na so the complete number of Israel go save. Just as they write say: “The person wey go save them go come from Zion and e go make the sons of Jacob remove hand from bad things.
w11 5/15 25 ¶19
‘O Jehovah, Your Sense Really Deep!’
19 True-true, Jehovah de make things wey e get for mind for “the Israel of God,” happen for fine way. (Gal. 6:16) As Paul talk, “the complete number of Israel go save.” (Rom. 11:26) When the time wey Jehovah set reach, the complete number of “the Israel of God,” go be kings and priests for heaven. Nothing fit stop Jehovah make e no do things wey e want do!
Fine-Fine Things Wey You See for Bible
(Romans 9:21-23) Na wetin? You no know say person wey e de mold things with clay get right to use the same clay make container wey they go use for special occasion and the one wey they go use everyday? 22 Na the same way with God. E be want show say e de vex so that they go see e power. But e show say e really dey patient with those people wey they be like containers wey e want vex for and wey dey good to destroy. 23 E do this one to show e glory for the people wey they suppose get e mercy and wey they be like container wey e be prepare long time for glory,
w13 6/15 25 ¶5
Make Jehovah Mold You
5 What if people no gree make Jehovah mold them? Wetin Jehovah go do? If person wey de mold things, no fit use clay wey e get mold wetin e want, wetin e go do? E fit use the clay mold another thing or e fit just troway-am. When something wey they mold-am no fine, na the person wey e mold-am, they go blame. But no be so e dey for Jehovah. (Deut. 32:4) If person no gree make Jehovah mold-am make e fine, na the person get the problem. Jehovah de mold people wey they gree make e mold them, but e go leave people wey they no gree make e mold them. Jehovah de use people wey they gree make e mold them, for better thing. For example, anointed Christians na ‘containers wey suppose get mercy’ and e don mold them to be ‘container wey e go use for special work.’ But people wey no gree make God mold them, go be ‘container wey God go destroy.’—Rom. 9:19-23.
(Romans 10:2) I fit talk this one about them because they really love to serve God, but they no de do-am for the right way.
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They No De Serve God for the Right Way. Person fit de use all e heart de do something, but e fit no de do-am for the right way. And this one fit de make God vex. Na so e happen for plenty Jews for first century. They think say na the way they follow the law of Moses, go make them righteous. But Paul show say they no de do-am for the right way because they no get the correct knowledge. So because of this one, God no see them as righteous people. If they want make God see them as righteous people, they must gree say they don make mistake, and they must change and be disciples of Jesus Christ. This one go still make them dey free from the curse of the Law. (Ro 10:1-10) Na the same thing happen for Saul wey come from Tarsus. E over get love for e religion, wey e be Judaism sotey e suffer the congregation of God. Saul follow things wey the law say e correct, exactly as the law talk-am. (Ga 1:13, 14; Php 3:6) Even with all this one, the love wey e get to serve God for e religion no be for the right way. Because e de use good heart do all this one, Jehovah use Christ show him mercy, then Saul start de worship God for the right way.—1Ti 1:12, 13.