Faith (religion) is not what is apparent and outwardly, but a manifestation of what becomes reality from the insides of your soul. What faith looks like at it’s initial glance is not what it actually is.
For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power. (1 Corinthians 4:20)
Allow me to give you some history on what’s going on here. There are some people in the church at Corinth who were basically teaching a faith and promoting a faith unbecoming to the gospel of Jesus. That being said, the faith that these people were promoting were rooted in a puffed up self-righteous, unforgiving, hypocritical, truism rooted in an unstable doctrine and faithlessness to Christ. In conclusion, these people said they were pastors of Jesus Church, but did not believe or practice life as Jesus did. The Apostle makes this brilliant statement about the “kingdom of God,” which needs to be expounded on this way: The kingdom of God (I’m not talking about heaven) is an unstoppable and immutable reality and not a dialectical theory. Paul suggests that if we are really followers of Christ, who are part of God’s kingdom, then talking about our faith is not the same as living out our faith. Our faith becomes manifested in what we do and it is in what we do that we find the power of the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is nothing when we talk about it like it’s a fleeting thought in the vast arrays of limited human intellectual thinking. In fact, as an idea, it stinks, we would reject such a notion because our satisfaction lays within the confines of suffering miserably in this reality (just watch the Matrix if you don’t believe me). But, the kingdom of God is everything when it is our day-to-day lives that embody the power of God pushing the boundaries of a limited human reality into the limitless grace, mercy and power that can only come from God. The semblance of reality we need to live in is that of God’s power rushing into every avenue of our lives. It is only real when we live it; and when we live it, our reality becomes the place where God reigns.
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