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“Choose Your Friends Wisely”: (15 min.) Discussion. Play the video Warning Examples for Our Day—Excerpt. Encourage all to view the video in its entirety.
What wrong thinking did Zimri and others express to Jamin?
That the Moabites were a friendly nation with whom they could establish a relationship without having any problem, they argued, for example, that since Jehovah had told them not to eliminate them, Jehovah probably wanted them to have that relationship with them.
If then they deceived themselves with the wrong reasoning to justify their bad desires, for example they said that they did not worship Jehovah but that they also did not oppose their worship that they could be tolerant and reasonable with them and even learn from them.
How did Phinehas help Jamin to view matters properly?
Well, he did not scold him, he simply listened to him and reasoned through questions with him, for example he said well they follow the principles or the laws on the part of Jehovah and he himself answered said they do not follow it, well then by making him reason he allowed precisely the correct form of think and make a good decision that saved your life.
I liked seeing how Finehas gave his opinion, he was not arrogant, on the contrary, he was calm and the explanation he gave was very congruent.
What is the difference between being friendly to an unbeliever and being his friend?
If the difference is that as Christians we are educated people, kind people and we treat people with respect, but it is a different thing to be friends, sharing ideas, thoughts, customs, and this is what the people of Israel were doing. they didn’t see that difference.
If we want to be very careful not to fall into the delusion of thinking that we are only being nice when in reality we could be crossing that fine line that could be seen as something harmless maybe how to accept something or respond to something, that could be the beginning of something that leads us to lose our friendship with Jehovah, we would lose something that is worth a lot with something that is worth nothing.
Why should we be careful when choosing our close friends even in the congregation?
This is because friends strongly influence us, the attachment we have towards someone we appreciate as a friend can influence our way of thinking and even within the congregation there may be those who may not have developed a strong spirituality yet a close relationship with Jehovah and a strong love for his standards, so we have to choose well even within the congregation.
Phineas gave a very interesting point Jehovah has taught us to have principles and values, so it is very important that we pay attention that our friends have those same principles and those same values with which Jehovah has educated us.
Why should we avoid chat groups on social media of people we do not know personally?
Well, in the case of Jamín, he saw precisely that his same friends with whom he lived as they were expressing strange or out of place situations that made him think if what they were going to do was correct or not, now we do think in our case to be with people that we do not even know can influence our way of thinking and make wrong decisions hence the importance of completely avoiding these chat groups with the aim that we can contaminate ourselves with that negative way of thinking.
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