LESSON 23
To Baptize Na One Better Thing Wey Person Fit Plan to Do
Jesus talk say all Christians must baptize. (Read Matthew 28:19, 20.) But wetin be baptism? And wetin person fit do to baptize?
1. Wetin be baptism?
The word “baptize” come from one Greek word wey the meaning na “to dip” something inside water. When they Baptize Jesus, they dip Jesus inside River Jordan, and after, e “come out from the water.” (Mark 1:9, 10) Like Jesus, them de dip true Christians inside water when them de baptize them.
2. When person baptize, wetin e de show?
When person baptize, e de show say e don give e life to Jehovah. How person de show this one? Before person baptize, e go pray and tell Jehovah say e want use all e life serve Jehovah forever. The person go promise to worship only Jehovah and wetin go dey important pass for e life go be to do wetin Jehovah want. E go decide to “deny e self and . . . continue to follow” the example of Jesus and wetin Jesus teach. (Matthew 16:24) As e don give e life to Jehovah and baptize, e go make-am possible for the person to be tight friend with Jehovah and with other servants of Jehovah.
3. Wetin person need to do before e fit baptize?
Before you fit baptize, e dey important make you learn about Jehovah and get strong faith for Jehovah. (Read Hebrews 11:6.) As you know more about Jehovah and your faith de strong, e go make you love Jehovah more. Then you go want tell other people about Jehovah and live your life the way e want. (2 Timothy 4:2; 1 John 5:3) When person de “waka for the way wey Jehovah want and . . . do wetin e like,” the person go decide to give e life to God and baptize.—Colossians 1:9, 10.a
LEARN MORE THINGS
See wetin we fit learn from the baptism of Jesus and see how person fit prepare to baptize.
4. We fit learn from the baptism of Jesus
Read Matthew 3:13-17 to learn more things about how Jesus baptize. Then talk about this questions:
Jesus na baby when e baptize?
How they baptize Jesus? They just pour water for e head?
Jesus start to do the special work wey Jehovah say make e do for this earth after e baptize. Read Luke 3:21-23 and John 6:38, and talk about this question:
After Jesus baptize, which work e put as number one for e life?
5. E dey possible for you to baptize
When person first think say e need to give e life to God and baptize, e fit make the person fear. But, small-small, you go reach one stage wey you no go de fear to make this important decision. To see some people wey don make this decision, play the VIDEO.
Read John 17:3 and James 1:5, and talk about this question:
Wetin fit help person to dey ready to baptize?
We de give our life to Jehovah when we promise for prayer say we want serve Jehovah forever
For the day wey we baptize, we de show people say we don give our life to God
6. When person baptize, e go be part of the family of Jehovah
When we baptize, we go be part of the family of Jehovah wey dey together as one for the whole world. Even as we no come from the same place or grow for the same way, we get the same beliefs and de live the same clean life as Jehovah want. Read Psalm 25:14 and 1 Peter 2:17, and talk about this question:
How baptism de make person be tight friend with Jehovah and with other servants of Jehovah?
SOME PEOPLE DE TALK SAY: “I never ready to baptize.”
If na so you de feel, you still de plan to baptize?
WETIN THIS LESSON TEACH
Jesus teach say Christians must baptize. Before person go fit baptize, e go need to get strong faith for Jehovah, follow e laws, and give e life to Jehovah.
Wetin You Don Learn
Wetin be baptism and why e dey important?
Wetin baptism de show?
Wetin person need to do before e fit give e life to Jehovah and baptize?
LEARN OTHER THINGS
Learn wetin baptism mean and wetin e no mean.
Learn about some things wey person need to do before e fit baptize.
“Love for Jehovah Go Move You to Baptize” (Watchtower, March 2020)
Read wetin make one man decide to baptize.
See why to baptize na important thing and how you fit prepare to baptize.
“Make I Baptize?” (Questions Young People Ask—Answers That Work, Volume 2, chapter 37)
a If person don baptize for another religion before, e go need to baptize again. Why? Because that religion no teach the truth from Bible.—Check Acts 19:1-5 and Lesson 13.