'The kingdom of God is within you.' Is the placing of the kingdom of God within a human spirit inconsistent with an 'outward' form of the location of God? Why should it be? The idea of outward is implicit in human experience yet it is an innate physiological character of human beings to look at existence as an inner and outer world of experience. In fact human beings exist in the same universal unified field as the things they observe as non-self. It is the phenomena of self-awareness that makes us seem different than the stones, the oceans, forests and stars or even space-time.
Humanity may be compared to a set of positive whole numbers, per number one through number six billion four hundred million. That is about twenty percent of all the human beings that have ever lived, so perhaps we ought to make the number thirty billion. In our reduced scale simile, God is every possible form of number positive, negative, fractional and otherwise without limit. He also exists in all possible dimensions that the numbers could be placed in. As numbers of a limited series and each being different, why don't we recognize God within us?
Perhaps we should. Maybe we need to take that on faith. Faith is a good way to intuitive expand the realm of possible intelligence about what human beings are.
If each number is considered to be one unit of knowledge. then each human being can at vest be one unit of knowledge. Let's say that Einstein had a full unit of knowledge, while most people are only about two-thirds as bright as that. So human beings are totally equally to maybe twenty billion unites together,however it doesn't pile up in such a way. Each unit can at best be one. God is the sum total of every number that could ever exist or be imagined to exist simultaneously. His intelligence and creative ability is more like ten to the trillionth trillionth power to infinity compared to our one unite at best each. So we wonder why God or at least his kingdom could be within us while being outside to. We know that the kingdom of God is not just in some one guy living on a sailboat in Tahiti after all. If its within units 1 through 50 then it must be within all units potentially.
Some people of course deny the kingdom of God, and some people will not accept the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal savior. They believe that their personal quantum spin vector is acceptable to God and His perfect. Only Jesus Christ was divine and perfect capable of renormalizing everyone's spiritually wrong eigenvalue to a quantum spin vector state acceptable to the spiritual economy of God.
I don't want to give the impression that this is anything more than a simile or a bit of a metaphor. The mysteries of God are rather unknowable for us human beings. Yet we trust that God is within and without everything although He has a protocol in which human beings cohere behaviorally and spiritually directed. Let us try to accomplish the will of God as expressed in the Bible.