The Watchtower Study, “Article 32”, 3-9 October 2022, Young man, keep progressing after your baptism, Answers.
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1. What have many young people achieved so far?
For example, they have studied the Bible a lot, perhaps for years, and that has convinced them that it is the Word of God. But the most important thing is that now, many young people already know and love the author of that sacred book. They love Jehovah so much that many young people have already made the decision to dedicate their lives to him and get baptized.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
In proverbs 27:11. We can see how Jehovah feels if we act wisely, the text mentions what we can rejoice his heart about if we act wisely, and that is what many of our young brothers have done, since despite the adverse situations that they may be going through due to age, our young brothers study the Bible for a long time and are convinced that it is the word of God and out of love some decided to dedicate their lives and get baptized. This is something that causes us great joy and admiration.
And making that decision is not easy at all, those of us who are adults know how difficult it is to be young, since they face very difficult situations, for example group pressure, family members who oppose their belief and peers at school. They make fun of you for being different from them. Despite all these challenges, we see many young people dedicating their lives to Jehovah and getting baptized, and that is something that causes us great joy and, without a doubt, Jehovah is also very happy.
And according to proverb 27:11 all these young men have made Jehovah's heart glad by striving to know and love him at all times.
2. What will we see in this article?
We will discuss, What will help young people to be loyal to Jehovah and fulfill their dedication?. And in this article we will see how young people can achieve it.
And that is very important because Paul told the Ephesians that we can be carried from here to there by winds of all kinds of teachings and this is what Satan is also going to try with the young, that is why it is so important that they advance towards maturity.
WHAT YOU CAN DO TO PROGRESS SPIRITUALLY
3. What must all Christians do after being baptized?
After Baptism, Christians must reach the maturity of a grown man” that is, maturity in a spiritual sense, Paul compared our spiritual progress to the physical growth of a child. A baby is the pride and joy of his parents, but he cannot remain a baby all his life. In time he will have to leave "childish things" behind. Something similar happens with Christians: after being baptized we must continue to progress.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
When you are a child, you speak like a child, think like a child and reason like a child, but when you are an adult, those things are left behind.
Here the apostle Paul is saying to acquire the maturity of an adult man and reach the full stature of the Christ, this means that we all have to continue studying and reach this goal of reaching this full stature of the Christ to look as much more like the Christ and to know fully understand Jehovah's purpose and how it affects us.
4. What quality will help you progress spiritually, and why? (Philippians 1:9).
The quality that will help us progress is love for Jehovah. The apostle Paul mentioned a way to do it, and we find it in Philippians 1:9, where Paul asked Jehovah that the love of the Philippians would be “more and more abundant.” This means that the love we feel for God can grow more and more.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
And for that, just like babies, we have to feed it so that it continues to grow more and more and with an exact and full knowledge so that it is the things that please it.
And it is very interesting the detail that at the end the apostle Paul when he says that in addition to exact knowledge we need full discernment because it could be the case that we know very well the qualities of Jehovah what he feels what he expects of us but if there is no discernment we will not move to action and that is the mixture that will make our love grow for him and we will strive at any price to please him.
Although the text applies to everyone, but since the information now has to do with young people, young people are filled with knowledge in the bone institute, they are constantly learning and the risk would be that the same intellectual activity will be applied to the Christian congregation for a young person. who goes to high school, biblical truths are basic, that is, you learn that in a moment, but what matters here is that it reaches your heart and sinks in.
5, 6. What is another way to nurture our love for Jehovah?
Another way to nurture our love for Jehovah is to get to know his Son better, who perfectly reflects the personality of his Father. And the best way to know Jesus is to study the four Gospels, because when we know Jesus more, our love for Jehovah will become greater.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
For example some of the things that we read in the Bible that Jesus was very accessible in Mark 10:13 to 16 told his Apostles to let the children get close to him, so we can know that Jehovah is also very accessible.
We have here First Peter chapter 5 verse 7 which is something very good for us because we know that Jehovah and Jesus are accessible but what the text tells us is that we cast our concerns on him because he cares about you this is something that leaves us very calm when we have a problem because we know that we can trust him and expect him to help us.
The verse he quotes from Matthew 9 also says that when he saw the crowds he was deeply moved because they were abused and abandoned like sheep without a shepherd, so he is a person of warm feelings who could show empathy and it is a good quality that we can also imitate.
Yes, Matthew 16:22 was also cited, where we see that Peter really tells him what he thinks, although it was not correct, but he tells him, sir, do not be so hard on yourself, he even took Jesus to reprimand him, and that means that Jesus was also very accessible and that his disciples felt very comfortable with him. They even expressed freely what they thought and we can do the same.
7. Why is it good for you to make friends with mature Christians?
It is good to make friends with mature Christians as our love for Jehovah will grow and help us progress spiritually.
Well, for young people it is good to make friends with mature Christians because they can observe us and then they can see, for example, among other things, that despite the circumstances we are happy, we serve Jehovah with joy, they can even ask us to tell them about some experience of why we are and are we meet like this and that will make their love love see the love that we have for Jehovah they also learn to love him more.
Well, as proverbs say, where there are good counselors like the multitude of counselors, things turn out well for young people, if they do or listen to this advice, there is no doubt that they will do well in life.
8. What can you do if you have questions about what the Bible teaches?
Study in depth what the Word of God says and look for information in our publications. In the paragraph we are also encouraged to talk with brothers who have had doubts on issues related to the uncertainty that afflicts us and ask them what helped them to overcome certain doubts. These conversations will help us think seriously about trials, as Satan will try to keep us from growing spiritually. One of his weapons is doubt. He wants us to stop trusting what the Bible teaches.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
Most of the teachers haven't investigated evolution in depth, right, so you don't have to accept everything they tell you about customs, it's true that the teachers are going to teach us math, grammar, and other things, but when it comes to this that tarnishes the name of God evolution one has to be careful, the proverb says the first to file a case appears to be right until the other party comes and questions him and how many young people have given a good testimony because most of them are true people believe in evolution out of habit but have not investigated.
Something that young people can also do according to the note is to go to the opinions section on the origin of life on the organization's page where they will find comments from doctors, surgeons, scientists, mathematicians, biochemists, where they explain what leads them to believe in a designer in a creator. , so legend these articles they will be able to face their doubts and reach a good conclusion.
I do remember a very beautiful phrase that I heard in a speech once, feed your faith and your doubts will starve, just as the paragraph tells us, we have the word of God that for any subject we do study thoroughly and our young people have a very Wake up to be able to do it, they will be completely clear on the subject.
9. What do you learn from Melissa's experience?
From this experience I learned that if at any time my faith wants to collapse due to doubts, I should investigate more on that subject, since as sister Jehovah mentions, he does not want us to serve him blindly, that is why we must face doubts and look for information that encourages us and helps us to be completely sure of our beliefs.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
We see that this sister was a little scared, she thought that maybe her faith could collapse if she investigated more, that is, she was afraid that the teacher was right, but then she thought that Jehovah does not want us to serve him blindly and that is a very good thought that we do not want to be like many members of other religions who only believe what they are told we really want to know what is the truth and what is the will of Jehovah and how we can better serve him.
ILLUSTRATION
Well, we have here a young woman who could be Melisa or another who is preparing to be able to talk about the theory of evolution at school and we see how she is preparing herself in depth, she is using the publications the origin of life and if it is life work of a creator we also see that she has a computer to look for more information the mobile phone with the Bible open and delve into this will not only help her to face her doubts but it will also help her to make a good presentation a good defense based in deep truths.
You can see what she has done apart from studying and preparing well, she has brought information not only for her to school because it is seen that with the class projector she is giving applications but that same information has been shared with other students because they have it in the tablet, so he did an excellent preparation.
The little sister's face while she is explaining it says it all, she is convinced because her preparation has taken effect.
Image Series: 1. A young sister searches for information in the brochures “Is Life the Work of a Creator?” and “The origin of life. Five questions worthy of analysis”. 2. The young woman makes a presentation at school in front of her teacher and her classmates.
How can you prepare for when the theory of evolution is discussed in school? (See paragraphs 8 and 9).
10, 11. What will help you resist temptations? (1 Thessalonians 4:3, 4).
What will help us resist temptations is telling Jehovah through a prayer how we feel and ask him for strength to resist that temptation, since Jehovah is there to help us, since he does not judge us. The Bible can also help us, since there we will find Biblical characters who have gone through many temptations and thanks to prayer and the study of the Bible they have been able to overcome temptations.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
More in prayer another help is the daily reading of the Bible and we have Melisa's comment that says that thanks to the fact that she read the Bible every day she did not give up she also had thoughts she had to fight against immoral thoughts and she says that she remembered daily that she had to please Jehovah, the vow she had made to him and that she wanted to do his will like this psalm 119:9 how can a young man keep his path clean because it says that being on guard and acting according to his word.
Well, she tells what the paragraph says at the beginning, young people don't have to fight alone because they have their parents, so she says that she asked Jehovah to help her be brave, then she talked to her father about what was happening to her and She says that she felt a great relief knowing that Jehovah was very proud of her.
In the case of our young brothers who do not have their parents in the truth, they can also turn to brothers with whom they have confidence in the congregation, even in the broadcasting, the brother spoke that he had spoken with his grandmother, so it is important that feel sheltered in the people of Jehovah.
12. What will help you make good decisions?
What will help young people to make good decisions is to let the biblical principles guide them, since as the years go by, our young brothers will have more freedom to make their own decisions. But they should not forget that they still have little experience in life.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
Of course, how she explains the experience of this sister, she says that instead of limiting herself to following rules, she wanted to make sure that this is what Jehovah thought, and every time she reflected on a biblical text, she said that it is what he teaches me, and that is that if one follows rules, one can that maybe he will do things but I'm not convinced, then at any moment a strong temptation can make him falter instead if he understands Jehovah's way of thinking what he will not want is unpleasant.
Isaiah 48:17, 18 | Well, there he teaches one thing that neither young people nor all Christians must ever forget, and that is that everything that Jehovah tells us and teaches us is always for our own benefit and the result would be as he says in the end that we would be like a river and justice like the waves of the sea in our lives.
The paragraph also encourages young people to read the Bible and meditate on its principles so that it will be easier to make decisions that will make Jehovah happy.
13. How can good friends influence you? (Proverbs 13:20).
The paragraph encourages us to look for friends who love Jehovah, since as we saw in paragraph 7, friends greatly influence our spiritual growth.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
If the case of this sister who says that she was losing the joy of serving Jehovah and just then found very good friends in the congregation, she says that she met with a little sister to study The Watchtower, another encouraged her to comment in the meetings and thanks to That good influence brought her joy back and she was strengthened to be able to serve Jehovah.
ILLUSTRATION
If here we see the type of friend that this sister chose and how it was helping her to have a consideration of The Watchtower, The Watchtower makes us know better what the Bible says and the Bible makes us know the kind of God who is Jehovah and Jehovah is a happy God, so if we do not let Jehovah's influence exert our lives there will be another influence, that of the world, which is what is going to make us feel how this world is and that is why we must worry because everything that influences in our life is related to Jehovah with his promises and that we can enjoy the happiness that characterizes him.
Two young sisters study an article in “The Watchtower” together.
What kind of friends did this young sister choose? (See paragraph 13).
14. How did Julien get good friends?
The sister from the experience says that when she was younger, she made good friends in the preaching work and started thinking about the goal of serving full time. She also realized that since she had only looked for friends her own age, she was missing out. the opportunity to have more good friendships. And then when I entered Bethel, I also made good friends. They taught her to better choose her entertainment, and that improved her friendship with Jehovah.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
Well, one of the ways was preaching by sharing this time with enthusiastic brothers because he came to enjoy preaching more, even setting the goal of serving full time.
Something this brother says is that he had only looked for friends his own age and this is a mistake because, for example, Jonathan and David and other servants from the past had a lot of friendship and helped them, so when he entered betel they helped him and he came to choose better his entertainment and improved his friendship with Jehovah and of course this is important truth because Satan wants us not to go towards the experience but not to have experience and experience is also given by age.
The brother comments that when he was younger he made good friends in the preaching work, as they helped him see that in preaching the company of the brothers can be greatly enjoyed. So he began to think about the goal of serving full time and later when he entered Bethel he also got good friends, who taught him to better choose his entertainment and that greatly improved his friendship with Jehovah.
15. What warning did Paul give Timothy? (2 Timothy 2:20-22).
Paul's warning to Timothy is to beware of people who are not spiritual. That is why in 2 Timothy 2:20-22 he tells him to stay away from them and today that advice also applies in our days, since friendship with our heavenly Father is something very valuable, and it is difficult to cultivate it. That's why we don't want anyone to ruin it.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
Yes, what we have seen so far is that friends have a great influence on us and we must look to the congregation, but it is true that this is a challenge for young people, sometimes in the congregation there are no young people and then you can be tempted to go out with any friend, then we have seen that what is important above all in the relationship we have with Jehovah.
As you mention psalm 26:4 says I have no dealings with men who love deception and I avoid those who hide what they are, so we should even in the congregation or within other congregations look for true friends that we have seen that can be seen in the goals that they have we can really know if they are worthwhile friends.
SETTING GOALS HELPS YOU PROGRESS IN A SPIRITUAL SENSE
16. What goals could you set for yourself?
For example, Youth could improve their personal study and Bible reading habits. Or maybe they can pray to Jehovah more often and from the heart. Perhaps they need to be more careful about the entertainment they choose and learn to use their time better.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
A very important goal that all Christians have is prayer, it is a way of asking Jehovah to help us to know his purpose and to continue doing his will and this is something that Jehovah is attentive to our prayer that of all so that we can be true followers of him.
And perhaps we need to be more careful with entertainment and choose what you choose and learn to use time better, just as Ephesians 5 from 15 to 16 says, take advantage of time in the best way because the days are bad.
And if we do not set spiritual goals, not only will our relationship with Jehovah be strengthened spiritually, but at the same time we will make Jehovah happy.
17. Why will you gain if you help others?
When you help others, you grow as a Christian. That is why Jesus said: "There is more happiness in giving than in receiving", because if we use part of our time and energy to help others, we will win.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
The words of deeds 20:35 are real, it says that there is more happiness in giving than in receiving, that will help the young person to grow as a Christian, it is good that the young people know the congregation well because that way they can see the needs they have where they can help , and they can also set a goal to become ministerial servants, or improve in their ministry.
ILLUSTRATION
Well, there is a young sister who is helping her older sister and they are in a market buying fruit and you can see the happy face that both of them have and it is a way of helping the older ones in a practical way.
One of the sisters in the previous photo helps an older sister to do the shopping.
What goal did this young sister set for herself? (See paragraph 17).
18. How does full-time service help you grow spiritually?
If our young brothers become pioneers, they have a great opportunity to go to the School for Kingdom Evangelizers, to Bethel, or to participate in construction projects.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
If the sister gives the key says that preaching with brothers and sisters of experience was something that I do that is key in their spiritual growth and their example encourages them to deepen their study of the Bible, it is true that when we think of pioneering we can think of other goals, but perhaps it is not preaching what we like the most, but if we see that Jehovah is going to help us in preaching with experienced brothers and sisters, preaching now changes, it is no longer something that can be a burden, but on the contrary, something that we are looking forward to because we are also going to share experiences in the ministry with our brothers.
We can also see in the paragraph the experience of a young sister named Kaitlyn, as she mentions that preaching with experienced brothers and sisters was key in her spiritual growth, since thanks to the support of her brothers she was able to get baptized, for the example of the older brothers helped her and encouraged her to deepen her study of the Bible and improve as a teacher.
19. What blessings will you receive if you continue to progress spiritually?
We will free ourselves from the painful consequences of bad decisions. Moreover, we will be happy and we will do well in life. our good example will encourage other brothers, young and old. And the most important thing is that we will feel peace of mind and joy knowing that we have Jehovah's approval and that he is our friend.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
And how it is also showing first of John 2:17 is something that I think concerns us all and that is not to waste our youth on goals that are not worth it because as that quote says the world is going to disappear it is a pity that all our energies Let's dedicate them to something that will disappear, then if we follow these tips we will see that our life has been worthwhile.
As shown in first Timothy chapter 4 and verse 12 they will become examples within the congregation and with their example they will encourage other brothers whether they are young or old.
WHAT WOULD YOU ANSWER?
Why should we progress spiritually after being baptized?
As we saw in paragraph 2, Satan will try to keep you from growing spiritually. One of his weapons is doubt. He wants us to stop trusting what the Bible teaches.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
Well, in order to reach a Christian maturity that makes us always be attached to Jehovah, we must be loyal and as paragraph 2 said, Satan does not get away with it if we are newly baptized, he will not separate us from the true path.
What can young people do to progress spiritually?
Study thoroughly what the Word of God says. Find information in our publications. Talk to mature siblings.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
Pray to Jehovah, tell him how we feel, ask him for strength, and study the Bible. Let us remember that he is there to help us, since he never judges us. The Bible can also help us progress spiritually.
Study the examples of Jesus to make them stronger.
Also seek the company of mature brothers who can help them progress spiritually and set goals.
If we have doubts, the best thing is to clarify the doubts and in this way, we will serve Jehovah more fully.
Why do goals help us progress spiritually?
Because they give us many opportunities to progress spiritually. If you pioneer, you could go to the School for Kingdom Evangelizers or Bethel, or participate in construction projects.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
They will help you progress because it is what Jehovah wants so Jehovah will bless you and without a doubt if you make an effort to serve Jehovah in the best way you will have many blessings that will help you continue progressing to set more goals and that will allow you to grow spiritually and become a mature person.
The goals help us take steps to reach spiritual maturity, among those goals is the full-time service that opens many doors to serve our brothers and in this way we will be very useful within the Organization of Jehovah.
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