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What “Truth” Will Set People Free?Awake!—1979 | February 8
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The same point is made at John 1:17, which states: “The undeserved kindness and the truth came to be through Jesus Christ.”
In what sense did “the undeserved kindness and the truth” come through Jesus Christ in contrast to God’s law through Moses? The Law served as a tutor leading to Christ. (Gal. 3:23-25) It contained shadows or prophetic pictures that attained fulfillment in Christ. In this regard, the apostle Paul writes: “Let no man judge you in eating and drinking or in respect of a festival or of an observance of the new moon or of a sabbath; for those things are a shadow of the things to come, but the reality belongs to the Christ.” (Col. 2:16, 17) Accordingly, “the undeserved kindness and the truth came to be through Jesus Christ,” because Jesus put the things foreshadowed by the Law into the realm of actuality, “reality.”
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What “Truth” Will Set People Free?Awake!—1979 | February 8
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The apostle Paul writes:
“If by one man’s trespass many died, the undeserved kindness of God and his free gift with the undeserved kindness by the one man Jesus Christ abounded much more to many.” (Rom. 5:15) “So, then, as through one trespass [that of Adam] the result to men of all sorts was condemnation, likewise also through one act of justification [by Jesus Christ] the result to men of all sorts is a declaring of them righteous for life. For just as through the disobedience of the one man many were constituted sinners, likewise also through the obedience of the one person many will be constituted righteous.”—Rom. 5:18, 19.
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