太四23　耶稣走遍加利利，在他们的会堂里施教，传扬国度的福音……。

　　七14　引到生命的，那门窄，那路狭，找着的人也少。

　　虽然召会与国度有密切的关系，然而二者有所不同。任何一种生命就是一个国度，所以国度就是生命本身。……神的生命就是神的国度。然而，召会不是生命，生命也不是召会。召会乃是生命的产物。神圣的生命就是国度，这生命产生召会。

　　新约的观念是福音带进国度。……福音带进神的国，福音也产生神的召会。为这缘故，在新约里福音称为国度的福音（太四23，九35，二四14）。但没有一处经文告诉我们，福音是召会的福音。国度的福音产生召会，因为国度就是生命本身，而召会是生命的结果（新约总论第六册，一九六页）。

　　Matt. 4:23 And Jesus went about in all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom...

　　7:14 Because narrow is the gate and constricted is the way that leads to life, and few are those who find it.

　　Although the church and the kingdom are interrelated, there is nonetheless a difference between them. Because any kind of life is a kingdom, the kingdom is the life itself....The life of God is the kingdom of God. The church, however, is not the life, nor is the life the church. Rather, the church is the product of life. The divine life is the kingdom, and this life produces the church.

　　The New Testament concept is that the gospel brings in the kingdom....The gospel brings in the kingdom of God, and the gospel also brings forth the church of God. For this reason, in the New Testament the gospel is called the gospel of the kingdom (Matt. 4:23; 9:35; 24:14). But there is not a verse telling us that the gospel is the gospel of the church. The gospel of the kingdom brings forth the church because the kingdom is the life itself, and the church is the issue of life. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 1740)

　　新约福音初次传扬时，告诉人要悔改，因为诸天的国已经临近了（太三2，四17，十7）。这就是说，神将祂自己当作生命分赐到人里面的时候到了。福音带来神作生命，这生命就是国度。国度乃是生命的范围，让生命行动、作工、管治并支配，使生命能达成其目的。国度是生命的范围，实际上就是生命本身。福音带进神圣的生命，而神圣的生命有其范围。这就是国度。神圣的生命同其范围产生召会。

　　国度既是召会的实际，照着新约的启示，我们若没有正当的国度生活，就无法过召会生活。……进入神的国，就是得重生。我们也许谈论重生，而没有领悟重生是为着进入国度。……重生的结果乃是国度，因重生带进神国的入口。神重生我们时，祂乃是将我们重生到祂的国里。

　　我们需要对一个事实有深刻的印象：诸天之国的实际就是召会生活的内容。这就是说，没有国度的实际，召会就是空洞的。国度的实际，实际上就是基督自己作我们的生命。基督作生命乃是素质、本质，让我们过正当的生活，好叫我们在这生活中，能与其他的信徒同被建造，带进真实的召会生活，就是基督这三一神具体化身的荣耀彰显。因为基督是三一神的具体化身，所以基督得着彰显，整个三一神就得着彰显。这彰显在于信徒有否过国度实际的生活，这实际完全启示并描述在马太五至七章。这几章是关于诸天之国宪法的完整信息，这宪法就是国度生活的实际。这实际乃是召会生活的真正内容。

　　我们若要有国度的实际作我们召会生活的内容，就需要基督作我们的生命和生命的供应。我们需要借着三一神分赐到我们这人里面，经历并享受基督作我们的生命。

　　今天我们有经过过程的三一神，同着基督这具体化身和那灵这完成。一天过一天我们需要向祂敞开，呼求祂，留在祂的同在中，与祂交通，并让祂在我们里面作工，将祂的一切所是、所有、所作以及正在作的，分赐到我们这人里面。这分赐的自然结果，使我们有国度生活，这国度生活就是我们的召会生活（新约总论第六册，一九七至一九八、二○三页）。

　　参读：新约总论第一百六十篇。

　　In the first preaching of the New Testament gospel people were told to repent because the kingdom of the heavens had drawn near (Matt. 3:2; 4:17; 10:7). This meant that the time had come for God to dispense Himself as life into people. The gospel brings God as life, and this life is the kingdom. The kingdom is the realm of life for life to move, work, rule, and govern so that life may accomplish its purpose. The kingdom as the realm of life is actually the life itself. The gospel brings in the divine life, and the divine life has its realm. This is the kingdom. The divine life with its realm produces the church.

　　Because the kingdom is the reality of the church, according to the New Testament revelation, we cannot live the church life apart from the proper kingdom life....To enter the kingdom of God is to be regenerated. We may talk about regeneration without realizing that regeneration is for the entry into the kingdom....Regeneration results in the kingdom, for regeneration issues in an entrance into the kingdom. When God regenerated us, He regenerated us into His kingdom.

　　We need to be deeply impressed with the fact that the reality of the kingdom of the heavens is the content of the church life. This means that without the reality of the kingdom, the church is empty. The reality of the kingdom is actually Christ Himself as our life. Christ as life is the essence, the substance, for us to live a proper life so that in this life we may be built up with other believers to bring in the real church life, which is a glorious expression of Christ as the embodiment of the Triune God. Because Christ is the embodiment of the Triune God, when Christ is expressed, the entire Triune God is expressed. This expression depends on whether or not the believers live a life that is the reality of the kingdom, a reality that is fully revealed and described in chapters 5 through 7 of the Gospel of Matthew. These chapters are a complete message on the constitution of the kingdom of the heavens, and this constitution is the reality of the kingdom life. This reality is the genuine content of the church life.

　　If we would have the reality of the kingdom as the content of our church life, we need Christ to be our life and our life supply. Through the dispensing of the Triune God into our being, we need to experience and enjoy Christ as our life.

　　Today we have the processed Triune God with Christ as the embodiment and the Spirit as the consummation. Day by day we need to open to Him, call on Him, stay in His presence, fellowship with Him, and allow Him to work within us to dispense all that He is, all that He has, all that He has done, and all that He is doing into our being. As the spontaneous issue of this dispensing, we shall have the kingdom life, and this kingdom life will be our church life. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 1740-1742, 1746)

　　Further Reading: The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 160