God's Kingdom--a Matter of Power, Not Talk
What power do they have? That's the apostle Paul's measure for authenticity. Some in Corinth seemed to question his apostleship, favoring Apollos over him. But these detractors were all talk--they could argue with high-sounding words and probably used scholarly theologies to refute Paul's teachings. But Paul said talk is nothing in the Kingdom. Zero. Photo by Lopez Robin on Unsplash.
"For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power," he said. So he wanted to go to Corinth and find out "not only what these arrogant people are saying, but what power they have." Kingdom is about demonstrating supernatural power. The church should go back to this and not waste time on human theology and titles and degrees on it. The church should desperately seek after supernatural revelation from the Holy Spirit that results to supernatural power.
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If you're all talk, you do not represent the Kingdom of God. Well, man's kingdom, perhaps, but not God's. And all talk cannot produce God's Kingdom on earth. Faith will uselessly "rest on men's wisdom," Paul hinted. And that's what modern church is today. Its faith rests merely on men's wisdom, having nothing but garbage theology. All talk. High-sounding terminologies and flowery talks. Yet nothing but trash.
My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.It is important that faith rests on God's power, not human wisdom. A "demonstration" of the Spirit's supernatural power, to be exact. Where is this in church today? I have heard many poor souls who have spent years in seminary and earned degrees, only to later declare the Holy Scriptures faulty or irrelevant in our present times. Wasted years in theology only to end up sounding more lost than enlightened.
Precisely because their faith rests on human wisdom, not on God's demonstrated supernatural power.
Jesus said a similar thing. "'I did tell you, but you do not believe. The works I do in my Father's name testify about me.'" The work he just did here was supernatural--healing a man born blind, and of course, other miracles he'd performed. Again, Jesus said:
Do not believe me unless I do the works of my Father. 38 But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”
The church in general is lost in matters of supernatural, awesome powers of God. To operate in God's power you need to be acculturated to God's supernatural ways and his spoken Word you hear with your spiritual ears when you meditate the bible. Be radically familiarized with God's mind and Kingdom principles as you trash all human and worldly principles you got from your secularized church, bible school and seminary.
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