Article June 27, 1959 ISSUE

THE WAY TO TRUE PROFIT

ARNOLD HIRSCH

We can make much more rapid progress in our understanding and demonstration of the kingdom of God if we permit our thinking to be quickened by the spirit of God that is within each one of us. Christ Jesus said (John 6:63), "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life."

The words "the flesh profiteth nothing" denote that the flesh, or matter, really has nothing at all to impart to us. Mortals employ many devices in their efforts to step up and expand what they regard as their intellectual resources or mind power. Oftentimes they will read anything that comes to their notice, without testing its basic correctness, in the mistaken belief that somehow what they read will better equip them for what they call the battle of life. But unless such study points up a spiritual idea, it may be asked in words from the Scriptures (Mark 8:36), "What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"

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