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1st Corinthians chapter 4 verse 20 for the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power.

Oh man, what a great verse.

The kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power.

Now you think about the context so that's what I think is helpful like diving into all these

individual verses in one chapter of scripture and one book of the Bible because it's so easy to take things out of

context like you can hear that verse and be like okay what does that mean you can

start making up all kinds of things that that means but when you look at it in

its context you got Paul addressing a church where there's all kinds of division because different people were saying, I follow Paul, I follow Apollo, I follow Cepas, I follow this or that.

And even here in 1st Corinthians chapter 4 you see Paul addressing

just this variety of teachers and even some of his critics in Corinth were saying negative things about him and he just

listen what matters in the end is it's not talk and he's even kind of as in 1st

Corinthians chapter 2 talked about the negative impacts of words of eloquence,

human wisdom, all that kind of stuff, he said that's not what the kingdom of God is about.

The kingdom of God is about the power of God.

In the gospel, right before this in 1st Corinthians, chapter 4, he just talked about how it's a very different power than the way the world views power.

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