How We Strip Off and Keep Off the Old Personality

"Strip off the old personality with its practices." -Colossians 3:9


OBSERVERS have commented on the outstanding qualities seen among Jehovah's people.  For example, regarding our brothers and sisters in Nazi Germany, author Anton Gill wrote:  "Jehovah's Witnesses attracted the especial enmity of the Nazis. . . . By 1939 there were 6,000 of them in the [concentration camps]." Even so, despite the bitter persecution they endured, adds the author, the Witnesses showed "dependability and equanimity [calmness under stress]" as well as "integrity and solidarity."


More recently, observers in South Africa noticed similar attractive qualities among God's people.  At one time, Witnesses of different skin color in that country could not freely associate with one another. However, on Sunday, December 18, 2011, it was a wonderful sight to see over 78,000 of our brothers of different races from South Africa and neighboring countries packed into the largest stadium in the city of Johannesburg to enjoy a spiritual program.  In commenting on those gathered, one of the managers of the stadium said: "This is the best-behaved crowd I have ever seen in this stadium. All are neatly dressed. And you people have cleaned the stadium so nicely. But most of all, you are truly multiracial."


Next time: Conclusion of the subject; "How We Strip Off  and Keep Off the Old Personality


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