路十七20~21　……神的国来到，不是观察得到的；人也不得说，看哪，在这里，或说，在那里；因为看哪，神的国就在你们中间。

　　可四26~27　耶稣又说，神的国是这样，如同人把种子撒在地上，黑夜睡觉，白日起来，这种子就发芽渐长，怎么会这样，他并不知道。

　　现在我们必须看见，国度与召会之间的不同与关系。这件事很难分辨，很难领会得清楚。我们已经看见，任何一种生命就是一个国度，因此国度就是生命本身。神的国度就是神的生命，但召会不是生命，生命也不是召会。召会是生命的产物。神圣的生命就是国度，这生命产生了召会。……没有国度作生命的实际，召会绝不能产生或建造起来。要产生召会并建造召会，我们就需要国度。

　　福音带来神作生命，生命就是国度。国度乃是生命的范围，让生命行动、工作、治理、管治，使生命能完成其目的，这范围就是国度。实际上，作为生命范围的国度就是生命本身。……这神圣的生命同其范围产生了召会（长老训练第二册，四五至四六页）。

　　Luke 17:20-21 ...The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor will they say, Behold, here it is! or, There! For behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.

　　Mark 4:26-27 And He said, So is the kingdom of God: as if a man cast seed on the earth, and sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and lengthens—how, he does not know.

　　Now we must see the difference or the relationship between the kingdom and the church. This is very hard to discern and to understand clearly. We have seen that any kind of life is a kingdom, so the kingdom is the life itself. The kingdom of God is the life of God, but the church is not the life, nor is the life the church. The church is the product of life. The divine life is the kingdom, and this life produces the church....Without the kingdom as the reality of life, the church could never be produced or built up. To produce the church and to build up the church, we need the kingdom.

　　The gospel brings God as life, and life is a kingdom. The kingdom is the realm of life for life to move, to work, to rule, and to govern so that life may accomplish its purpose, and this realm is the kingdom. Actually, the kingdom as the realm of life is life itself....This divine life with its realm produces the church. (CWWL, 1984, vol. 2, “Elders' Training, Book 2: The Vision of the Lord's Recovery,” pp. 121-123)

　　〔我们无法凭人的教导〕进神的国。进神的国唯一的路，就是接受神作生命，得着神自己；这就是重生。所以要悔改，就是要改观念，改掉摩西的观念、律法的观念，甚至属世、天然、事奉神的观念，全数都要改一改。要悔改！（神的经纶与神圣三一输送的奥秘，四○至四一页）

　　神的国乃是主耶稣作生命的种子，撒到相信祂的人—神所拣选的人—里面，并发展为一个范围，使神能在祂神圣的生命里施行管治，以此为祂的国。神国的入门是重生（约三5），其发展是信徒在神圣生命里的长大（彼后一3~11）。神的国在今天是召会的生活，是忠信的信徒在其中生活的（罗十四17），并要发展为要来的国度，作得胜圣徒在千年国里（启二十4、6）所承受的赏赐（加五21，弗五5）。至终，神的国要完成于新耶路撒冷，作神永远的国，就是神永远生命之永远福分的永远范围，在新天新地里给神所有的赎民享受，直到永远（启二一1~4，二二1~5）。

　　在永世里，新耶路撒冷将是所有信徒的总和，把经过过程的三一神照耀出来。新地将是神在其中治理列国的范围，这掌权的范围要由新耶路撒冷的照耀所形成。因此，新耶路撒冷的照耀要产生神掌权的范围。这就是神的国。

　　〔在路加十七章二十节〕主说神的国“不是观察得到的”，这指明神的国不是物质的，乃是属灵的。二十二至二十四节证明神的国就是基督自己，当法利赛人问祂关于国度时，祂就在他们中间。救主在哪里，哪里就有神的国。神的国与祂同在，祂将神的国带给祂的门徒（22）。祂是神国的种子，撒在神的子民里面，并在他们里面发展为神管治的范围。祂复活以后，就在祂的信徒里面（约十四20，罗八10）。因此，神的国以基督为其生命里的实际，今天就在召会里（十四17）（新约总论第八册，一○一、一一页）。

　　参读：新约总论，第二百四十、二百五十至二百五十一篇；马可福音生命读经，第十三至十六篇；CWWL一九七二年第一册，基督在我们里面长大并扩展，为着神的国，第一至三章。

　　No matter how much you are taught, you cannot get into the kingdom of God. The only way to enter into the kingdom of God is to receive God as life and to gain God Himself. This is regeneration. Therefore, to repent is to have a change in your concept. You have to change your concepts about Moses, your concepts about the law, and even your worldly, natural concepts about serving God. All these concepts need to be changed. Therefore, you must repent! (CWWL, 1986, vol. 2, “The Economy of God and the Mystery of the Transmission of the Divine Trinity,” p. 353)

　　The kingdom of God is the Lord Jesus as the seed of life sown into His believers, God's chosen people, and developing into a realm [over] which God may rule as His kingdom in His divine life. Its entrance is regeneration (John 3:5), and its development is the believers' growth in the divine life (2 Pet. 1:3-11). It is the church today, in which the faithful believers live (Rom. 14:17), and it will develop into the coming kingdom as an inheritance reward (Gal. 5:21; Eph. 5:5) to the overcoming saints in the millennium (Rev. 20:4, 6). Eventually, it will consummate in the New Jerusalem as the eternal kingdom of God, an eternal realm of the eternal blessing of God's eternal life for all God's redeemed to enjoy in the new heaven and new earth for eternity (Rev. 21:1-4; 22:1-5).

　　In eternity the New Jerusalem will be the totality of all the believers shining forth the processed Triune God. The new earth will be a realm in which God will rule over the nations. This ruling realm will be formed by the shining of the New Jerusalem. Hence, the shining of the New Jerusalem will produce a realm for God's ruling. This is the kingdom of God.

　　The Lord's word [in Luke 17:20] that the kingdom of God “does not come with observation” indicates that the kingdom of God is not material but spiritual. Verses 22 through 24 prove that the kingdom of God is Christ Himself, who was among the Pharisees when He was asked by them regarding the kingdom. Wherever the Savior is, there is the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is with Him, and He brings it to His disciples (v. 22). He is the seed of the kingdom of God sown into God's people and developing in them into God's ruling realm. Since His resurrection, He is within His believers (John 14:20; Rom. 8:10). Hence, the kingdom of God with Christ as its reality in life is within the church today (Rom. 14:17). (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 2640, 2553-2554)

　　Further Reading: The Conclusion of the New Testament, msgs. 240, 250-251; Life-study of Mark, msgs. 13-16; CWWL, 1972, vol. 1, “The Growth and Spread of Christ within Us for the Kingdom of God,” chs. 1-3