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Always Display Love and FaithThe Watchtower—1986 | July 15
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24. To what end has Jesus “given us intellectual capacity”?
24 Certain false teachers held that Christ had not come in the flesh. (2 John 7) But evidence cited in this letter enables John to say, “We know that the Son of God has come.” (1 John 1:1-4; 5:5-8) Moreover, Jesus “has given us intellectual capacity,” or “mental perception,” so that “we may gain the knowledge of the true one,” a progressive understanding of God. (Matthew 11:27) So “we are in union with the true one [Jehovah God], by means of his Son Jesus Christ.”—Compare John 17:20, 21.
25. As Christians, how can we apply the counsel at 1 John 5:21?
25 Those in union with the true God, Jehovah, whether of the anointed remnant or of the “other sheep,” wish to please him in every way.
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