Kingdom Power is to Persevere Through "this Evil Age"

 Often times the correct interpretation of a verse is found in its context.  1 Corinthians 4:20 is popular in the "kingdom now" perspective, but in its context the POWER is the power to persevere in love, faith and trust during the trials and tribulations of this evil age.  Paul reminds the gentile believers in Corinth that the power of God has not come to make them rich and rulers in this age.  The apostolic call and therefore the call on all believers is to endure, to persevere to the end of this evil age.  To hold to and cling to the promise and the hope of the age to come.  The death of Yeshua on the cross covers our sins and purchases our pardon on the day of the Lord that allows us to go into the age to come in the same resurrection life that Yeshua now has.  Glory to God for the mercy He extends to us.  1 Cor. 4:8 "Already you are full! Already you have become rich! Without us you have become kings! Indeed, I wish you were kings, so we also might be kings with you! 9 For it seems to me that God has put us, the emissaries, on display last of all—like men sentenced to death. For we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to people. 10 We are fools for Messiah’s sake, but you are wise in Messiah! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, but we are dishonored! 11 To this very hour we are both hungry and thirsty, dressed in rags and mistreated and homeless. 12 We toil, working with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless. When we are persecuted, we endure. 13 When we are slandered, we speak kindly. We have become the scum of the earth, the dregs of all things—even to this moment.

14 I do not write these things to make you ashamed, but to warn you as my dearly loved children. 15 For though you may have ten thousand guardians in Messiah, yet you do not have many fathers. For in Messiah Yeshua, I became your father through the Good News. 16 I urge you therefore—be imitators of me. 17 For this reason I have sent you Timothy, my dearly loved and faithful child in the Lord. He will remind you of my ways in Messiah, just as I teach everywhere in every community.

18 Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you. 19 But I will come to you soon, if the Lord is willing; and I will find out not the talk of those who are puffed up, but their power. 20 For the kingdom of God does not consist of talk but of power."