WE HELP SAVE LIVES WHEN WE PRAISE JEH OVAH'S NAME - Conclusion

 At the outset, we may simply teach people that God's name is Jehovah. That in itself can have a long-lasting effect on an honesthearted person. For example, a young woman name Aaliyah was raised in a non-Christian household. But she felt no real connection to her religion or God. That changed after she began to study with the Witnesses. She started to see God as her Friend. And she was amazed to learn that God's name has been removed from many Bibles and replaced with mere titles, such as Lord. Learning Jehovah's name was a turning point in her life. She exclaimed: "My best friend has a name!" The result? She says: "I have so much peace in my heart now. I feel very honored." A man named Steve was a musician who came from a conservative Jewish background.  He distanced himself from organized religion because he had seen so much hypocrisy. However, during a time of grief, he agreed to sit in on a Bible study conducted by one of Jehovah's Witnesses. He was deeply touched to learn God's name. He says:  "I had never learned God's name." He adds: "For the first time, I understood that God is real! I saw him as a Person. I knew then that I had found a Friend."

In your preaching and teaching work, do you share the sacred name, Jehovah, with people? Do you help them to see what our God is really like? In doing so, you praise Jehovah's name. May you keep on praising Jehovah's holy name by helping people to know the Person behind that name. In that way you will save lives. You will follow the lead of your King, Christ Jesus. And above all, you will please your loving Father, Jehovah. May you "praise [his}name forever and ever"! - PSALM 145:2.

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