The Watchtower Study, «Article 36», 31-October to 6-November 2022, Jehovah's servants love his justice, Answers.
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“Happy are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness” (MAT. 5:6).
1. What test did Joseph face, and how did he act?
Joseph faced a very difficult test, Potiphar's wife constantly insisted that he sleep with her. José had many opportunities to do so and accept that proposal, because Potiphar was not there and he was a slave of the house and he also knew that if he rejected her she would make his life impossible. Even so, he decided not to accept, on the contrary José never gave in to her constant pressure.
ADDITIONAL COMMENT
The text of Genesis 39:10. It shows that the pressure was very strong, since the text mentions that she insisted day after day, we imagine this situation in reality, it is not that it was a single day or two, it was a constant pressure, but still we can see that It never crossed his mind to harm Jehovah, since he himself said, How could I do such a bad thing and actually sin against God.
2. Why did Joseph know that adultery is a sin under God?
Without a doubt, he knew that God created marriage for a man and a woman, since he had probably heard that Jehovah had to intervene twice to protect the honor of his great-grandmother Sarah, because two Kings wanted to sleep with her. For it is also likely that he would remember that God did the same thing to protect Rebekah, Isaac's wife.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
Surely he had also heard the story that we see in Genesis 20 where Jehovah told Abimelech that you can be considered dead because of the woman you have ordered because she is married and belongs to another man.
And the most interesting thing about the case is that, as the paragraph comments, Jehovah had not yet given an explanation law against adultery, he did so at the time of Moses, however Joseph used what he knew had happened to know in his heart that it was wrong in the eyes of Jehovah.
He could have thought that since there was no law that would indicate what he had to do in that situation, he could have justified himself and acted, however he thought about the decisions that God had made in other situations in what that meant and in the opinion Jehovah had and that was enough for him.
3. What will we see in this article?
In this article we will see what God's justice is and why it is good for us to love it and then we will analyze 3 things we can do to love Jehovah's standards more and more.
WHAT IS THE JUSTICE OF GOD?
4. What way of being does not reflect the justice of God?
The way of being that does not reflect the justice of God, is that we have a wrong criterion to do things and believe that we do not do anything wrong. Since it is very common for people who think like this to think they are superior to others and become very critical.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
The attitude that the religious leaders had that they considered very fair and upright but Jesus condemned them as it says in Luke that they were fair before the people but God condemned their attitude.
If we must never forget that we are imperfect and that we have to follow Jehovah's rules, that is why Jehovah asks us to be by his side.
5. According to the Bible, what does it mean to be righteous? Mention some examples.
According to the Bible, it implies doing what is right from God's point of view and an example of this is that Jehovah ordered that merchants had to use an exact and fair weight. That means that a Christian who wants to be Righteous in the sight of God will be honest in all his dealings. Furthermore, a person who loves Jehovah's justice hates to see others treated unjustly.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
To do so we have to follow his rules and that will please Jehovah because he will see that we always take him into account in our decisions.
And something interesting is how Jehovah ordered the merchants to have exact and fair weights, so this teaches us that any Christian who wants to be fair in the eyes of Jehovah should also be honest and fair in all his dealings.
The paragraph emphasizes that the words translated “righteousness” convey the idea of living up to Jehovah's high standards.
6. Why can we trust Jehovah's standards of right and wrong? (Isaiah 55:8, 9).
The text we have just read clearly mentions that "the thoughts and ways of the Lord" are not like ours. Since as the same text mentions in verse 9, just as the heavens are above the earth, in this way his ways are above ours. For this reason, as Our Creator, only he has the right to establish the rules about what is right and what is wrong. And, being perfect, his judgment is far above ours, since our perspective of what is right or wrong is very limited, due to imperfection and sin.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
Because as Jeremiah 5:7 says, true justice comes from him and how he is who has created us, his criteria are above ours and he is the only one who has the right to establish the rules about what is right and what is wrong.
Yes, it is also interesting what Proverb 14:12 says, it says that there is a path that seems right to man but in the end it leads to death, so from our point of view we can make fair decisions and they are not and we are going to end badly as the text says.
7. Why do standards need to be in place? Give some example.
Jehovah's standards are very necessary, because when we faithfully follow his standards about right and wrong, we do very well in life. And to better understand this idea, the paragraph mentions a very interesting example about what would happen if a bank decided the value of the coins or if each construction company had its own measurement system, and if in a hospital each doctor or each nurse attended to patients in their own way, some could die, clearly if that were the case, everything would be chaos. Then we can see that the established norms protect us, in a similar way it happens with the norms of God, if we obey his norms, all will be well for us, because Jehovah did it for our own good.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
So we see that what the established norms do is protect us, the same thing happens with Jehovah's norms, they are for our good.
In these 2 specific examples that to a certain extent can make us go wrong or harm us financially, as in the case of the bank in the case of the construction company, but mention a third example where it could even be in your own life, it is the case of that then each doctor or each disease had its own way of caring for its patient and the repercussion that could be is that we would even die.
8. What blessings will come to those who love God's righteousness?
One of the many blessings that Jehovah offers us, we find it in Psalm 37:29 where Jehovah promises us that the righteous will inherit the earth and live forever on it, which means that we will live happily and enjoy peace and unity, it is That is why he left it written so that when we read it we will have compelling reasons to love his justice. Without a doubt, Jehovah wants to fulfill this promise and for us to receive these blessings.
ADDITIONAL COMMENT
Jehovah wants us to receive all those blessings that are mentioned in Psalm 37:29, so as said before we have many reasons to do so and carry out more or less within our imperfection the justice of God.
WHAT WE CAN DO TO LOVE JEHOVAH'S STANDARDS MORE
9. What will help us to love justice?
What will help us to love Jehovah's justice is to love him, since he was the one who set the rules about what is right and what is wrong, because the more we love Jehovah, the more we will want to live according to his righteous rules.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
Proof that to love justice we must first love Jehovah are Adam and Eve, since they did not love Jehovah and that is why they disobeyed.
In fact, in verse 5 there she was told that the possibility of becoming like God would be opened to her, Eve did not love Jehovah as a superior being like what he is, but says that he made equal the reason for that lack of love that had and that's what triggered all the problems we have.
10. What did Abraham do to better understand Jehovah?
What Abraham did is love God deeply even though there were situations in which he did not understand Jehovah's decisions. We say this because, when it was difficult for him to understand Jehovah's decisions, he did not rebel.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
For example, Jehovah had made the decision to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, but it seemed impossible to Abraham that God would do such a thing. Which is why he asked him some questions with great humility and how we know Jehovah patiently answered him, and at the end of the conversation Abraham understood that Jehovah examines the hearts of all human beings and never punishes the innocent along with the guilty.
If we do not want to make the same mistake that Adam and Eve made, we should try to get to know Jehovah as much as possible because we live in a world in which a lot of information can reach us that if we are not strong and do not know Jehovah well, it could make us doubt and we do not want to it's.
11. How did Abraham show that he loved and trusted Jehovah?
He showed that he loved Jehovah and trusted him, when he was willing to sacrifice his beloved son Isaac, since when Jehovah asked him to sacrifice his son he did not hesitate for a moment. And he did it because he knew his God better, on that occasion he did not ask any questions, he simply made the preparations to do what Jehovah had asked him, the reason was because he knew that Jehovah would never do something unjust or cruel to the servants of him.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
And surely that conversation he had with Jehovah when Sodom and Gomorrah happened helped him learn to trust Jehovah and now when this more difficult situation arose, he was clear that he trusted Jehovah and that it was a matter of obeying for that obeyed
And it seems that he knew him to a special degree because he was even able to conclude that Jehovah could resurrect his son, the apostle Paul later recorded it in the letter to the Hebrews chapter 11 so having that knowledge of Jehovah helped him.
12. How can we imitate Abraham? (Psalm 73:28).
In imitation of Abraham, we can set ourselves the goal of getting to know Jehovah better and better, because if we do, we will draw closer to him and love him even more. And in this way we will be training our conscience according to the way of thinking of our God.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
Well, as the psalm says, make Jehovah our refuge, so we need to know him better so that our love for him increases and it is very important that we train our conscience, so in this way we will avoid any temptation that can make us hurt Jehovah and end up damaging our friendship. with the.
We also draw another very valuable lesson from Abraham's example, and that is that the desire not to want to hurt someone dear to us can become much more powerful than the fear of suffering punishment, and that is precisely what Abraham thought.
13. What do we have to do to earnestly seek justice? (Proverbs 15:9).
Just as it takes a lot of constant effort to strengthen a muscle, to strengthen our love for Jehovah's righteous standards we need to continually exert ourselves. And we can do it every day, but we must not forget that Jehovah is very reasonable and he never expects us to do more than we can do. Therefore, if we continue to seek God's righteousness, Jehovah assures us that he will show us his love, as mentioned in Proverbs 15: 9.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
And we know that Jehovah is reasonable and never expects us to do more than we can do, he assures us that he loves those who diligently seek justice and if we approach Jehovah and obey his rules we are on his side.
What made it possible for Abraham to demonstrate love for Jehovah and his justice in very difficult and very concrete moments was that he had also experienced all that desire to serve Jehovah and his justice on a day-to-day basis and that teaches us what the text is the day to day in small things where every day we show that we want to obey Jehovah that we love him that we love his justice in small details in small situations and in this way we exercise that spiritual muscle as we said before.
14. What does “the breastplate of righteousness” represent, and why do we need it?
"The breastplate of righteousness" represents Jehovah's righteous standards and we need it because just as a breastplate protects the physical heart, Jehovah's standards protect our symbolic heart. That is to say what we are inside, which is why it is very important that our armor in a spiritual sense always wears the breastplate of justice.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
Proverbs 4:23 says that the sources of life spring from the heart, that is why we need this protection every day, just as a breastplate protects our physical heart, Jehovah's rules act in the same way protecting our symbolic heart.
Also Proverbs 4:23 says that we must protect our heart because the sources of life spring from it, it is important that we keep this breastplate of justice well put on because Jehovah looks at that in what is inside our heart in what we are by within.
15. How do we put on the breastplate of righteousness?
If we take God's standards into account in our daily decisions, it is as if we were putting on "The Breastplate of Righteousness" in a spiritual sense. Therefore, if our decisions are in accordance with Jehovah's will, his righteous standards will protect our hearts from evil influences.
ADDITIONAL COMMENT
In this paragraph we find a direct and simple way, the key to being successful in life, to always make good decisions, rhetorical questions are asked about what we would do at a certain moment, but we can use this as the paragraph says in all aspects of our life if we have doubts when making a decision and we think how Jehovah will see this, surely it will be the key for us to protect our hearts and whatever we do is successful, as has already been said.
16, 17. How does Isaiah 48:18 assure us that it is possible to obey Jehovah’s standards forever?
In Isaiah 48:18 Jehovah promises us that our justice can be like the waves of the sea, and this example is very interesting, because how we know the waves of the sea never end, they never stop for any reason, they always follow their usual course. The idea that the Slave wants to convey to us is that Jehovah allowed this text to be written to show us that just as these waves never end, our justice will also be infinite, if, "We pay attention to his commandments."
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
In the text we are reminded that by heeding Jehovah's commandments, following rules day after day says that our justice will be like the waves of the sea and just as it is seen that on a beach we do not stop to think if one day they will not waves come we know they are coming and right now on the beach even though we are far from here waves keep coming and we don't see them but they are there, that is how our justice will be if we daily obey Jehovah's rules.
That is why when we have to make a decision in our life, the first thing we should do is think about what the Lord wants us to do and then we can safely do it. Since if we rely on Jehovah, we will be sure that no matter how difficult the decision may be, our loving father will always be there to help us be constant, and continue to obey his fair rules day by day.
And to think that Jehovah is always going to be there to help us in whatever we need to strengthen us in those decisions that we make and that we are constant as Isaiah 40:29 to 31 says Jehovah says that he gives strength to those who get tired to those who are exhausted We will also run if we don't get tired, that is, we have behind us the one who could be much easier for us to strengthen that relationship and see it that way.
ILLUSTRATION
A sister walks along a beach at sunset and watches the waves come and go.
Our righteousness can be "like the waves of the sea." (See paragraphs 16 and 17).
18. Why should we not judge others by our own standards?
The text of Genesis 18:25 is very clear, since it mentions that the only judge of the whole Earth is Jehovah, there is no other judge, that is why we should not judge others or think that we are more just than them, On the contrary, we must strive to live in their fair standards and not look at others with an air of superiority or as if we had the right to judge according to our way of thinking or standards that in our opinion are correct.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
Well basically because Jehovah does not allow us, Jesus told the people of the first century that they should stop judging so that they would not be judged, so Jehovah has not appointed us judges so we do not judge.
There are occasions in which the elders have to judge a serious sin and determine if the person has truly repented, but even in these cases in which that person has to be judged, one must be humble and must remember the point of view of Jehovah and that always on these occasions it is judged for Jehovah, it is not oneself who has to decide what the result is, so we must strive to be merciful reasonable fair so that in this way we also demonstrate Jehovah's justice through our actions.
19. How did Joseph show his trust in Jehovah's righteousness?
As we know, Joseph's brothers mistreated him, sold him into slavery, and made their father believe that he was dead. Joseph could easily have taken revenge, since he was now a powerful ruler, but he did the opposite, I assure you not to be afraid, since he did not occupy the place of God and did not have the authority to judge others, since he He trusted in Jehovah's justice. That is why he was humble and he thought that only Jehovah had the right to judge his brothers.
ADDITIONAL COMMENT
And surely Joseph, as the powerful ruler that he became, on many occasions had to act as a judge and impart justice. Even in this case, he had suffered injustice from all sides by his brothers, mistreated him, sold him as a slave and deceived him. to his father making him think he was dead, but even so he never took revenge on the contrary he left everything in the hands of Jehovah.
20, 21. What will help us not to believe that we are more righteous than others?
The text of Proverbs 16:22 shows that Jehovah examines the motivations. That means that Jehovah sees our hearts, and that is something that we as imperfect human beings cannot do, we cannot see what is in the hearts of our brothers. That is why we should not assume that we know why our brothers do what they do.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
And we also cannot judge our relatives who are not in the truth and we must not think that they will never serve Jehovah, since we must never forget that Jehovah considers Unfair who is believed to be more just than others.
Therefore, a goal is set for all members of the congregation and that is to love our brothers before judging them.
22. What drives you to love justice?
Personally, what drives me to love justice is the conviction I have that Jehovah looks at the efforts we make every day to obey his just rules and that makes him very happy. Although there is more and more injustice in the world, we should not lose heart, but we should always remember that Jehovah loves the righteous.
ADDITIONAL COMMENT
Because that is the way to be able to be happier and also to please Jehovah because he loves the righteous so he is going to focus on other efforts.
WHAT WOULD YOU ANSWER?
What is the justice of God?
Justice is a very valuable quality, which consists in doing what is right from God's point of view, that is why in the Bible the words that are translated as justice convey the idea of living according to the high standards that were created solely by our God Jehovah.
ADDITIONAL COMMENT
It is doing what is right from God's point of view. In the Bible, the words translated justice convey the idea of living according to the highest standards that exist, those of Jehovah.
Why is it good for us to follow Jehovah's righteous standards?
Because if we follow Jehovah's righteous standards, our decisions will be in accordance with God's will, and his righteous standards will protect our hearts from evil influences.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
It is good because if we do, Jehovah will patiently help us to follow his righteous standards, progress and improve over time.
Well, first of all because we know that he has the right as our creator to set those rules and we know that he is also loving and that those rules are going to do for our good and following them will be happy.
What can we do to love Jehovah's standards more?
First: Love the person who sets the rules.
Second: Make an effort daily to love justice more.
Third: Let Jehovah be the one who judges.
OPTIONAL ANSWER
The first thing we must love is the person who sets the standards and if we love the justice of Jehovah we must love him and the more we love him the more we will want to live according to his standards, we must also strive daily to love that justice and this will strengthen our love for those rules and finally let Jehovah be the one who judges, although we strive to live in these rules we should not judge others or think that we are more just than them. s.
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