可四26~29 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。地生五谷，是出于自然的：先发苗，后长穗，再后穗上结成饱满的子粒。谷既熟了，他立刻用镰刀去割，因为收割的时候到了。

　　撒在奴仆救主之信徒里面那神圣生命的种子（约壹三9，彼前一23），指明神的国（奴仆救主福音的结果和目标），以及今世的召会（罗十四17），都是生命，就是神生命的事。这生命发芽、长大、结果、成熟并产生收成（圣经恢复本，可四26注3）。

　　神的国乃是神自己种到人里面，而在人里面发展成为国度。……我们需要对一个事实有深刻的印象，就是神的国不是教训、活动或组织。相反的，神的国乃是三一神成为肉体，种到祂的选民里面，并在他们里面生长，发展成为国度（马可福音生命读经，一五四页）。

　　Mark 4:26-29 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. The earth bears fruit by itself: first a blade, then an ear, then full grain in the ear. But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he sends forth the sickle, because the harvest has come.

　　The seed of the divine life (1 John 3:9; 1 Pet. 1:23) sown into the Slave-Savior’s believers indicates that the kingdom of God, which is the issue and goal of the Slave-Savior’s gospel, and the church in this age (Rom. 14:17) are a matter of life, the life of God, which sprouts, grows, bears fruit, matures, and produces a harvest. (Mark 4:26, footnote 3)

　　The kingdom of God is actually God Himself sown into human beings and developing in them into a kingdom. We need to be impressed with the fact that the kingdom of God is not a matter of teaching, activity, or organization. On the contrary, the kingdom of God is the Triune God in His incarnation sown into His chosen people to grow and develop in them into a kingdom. (Life-study of Mark, pp. 133-134)

　　整本新约教训的内在元素……〔乃是〕：三一神已经成为肉体，为要撒到祂所拣选的人里面，并在他们里面发展成为国度。……四福音里启示三一神成为肉体。至终这位神人出来，借着传扬与教训，将祂自己撒到神所拣选的人里面。当神所拣选的人听见并接受祂的话时，他们就接受了国度的种子，就是国度的基因。这种子、基因乃是成为肉体的神，也就是在人性里的三一神。在福音书里，我们看见国度种子的撒播。

　　 使徒行传有这撒播的繁殖和开展。……使徒行传里有几百个，甚至几千个撒种的人兴起来。所有这些撒种的人都是接受了种子、基因的人。他们接受种子，就成了一班也能把种子撒到别人里面的人。借此，撒种与种子都繁殖了。……我们在书信里看见国度基因（种子）的长大。……保罗在林前三章九节下半说，“你们是神的耕地。”保罗在同一章又说，“我栽种了，亚波罗浇灌了，唯有神叫他生长。”（6）我们在这一章里看见种子的生长与发展。

　　这种子的收成是在新约最后一卷书—启示录—中。按照启示录十四章，我们先有初熟的果子，然后有收成。四节说到那班“从人间买来的，作初熟的果子归与神和羔羊”。然后我们在十五节看见“地上的庄稼已经熟了”。……十四章所说，那些是初熟果子的人，要在千年国里与基督一同作王。千年国将是国度基因的完全发展。在这一千年间，许多接受国度基因的人要与基督一同作王。……在新天新地里，神要得着永远的国，以新耶路撒冷为京城。新耶路撒冷将由众王所组成，这些王要管治完全复兴的列国。这样，神就会有一个永远的国，是那在福音书中拿撒勒人耶稣（祂是在人性里的三一神）所撒之基因的完全发展。

　　在福音书里所撒的国度基因是何等的奇妙！至终，这基因要发展成为启示录二十章所说的千年国，与二十一、二十二章所说神永远的国。为着这幅国度基因及其发展的图画，赞美主！（马可福音生命读经，一五四至一五八页）

　　参读：马可福音生命读经，第十四至十六篇。

　　The intrinsic element of the entire teaching of the New Testament... [is] that the Triune God has been incarnated in order to be sown into His chosen people and then develop within them into a kingdom. The four Gospels reveal the Triune God incarnated. This God-man eventually came forth to sow Himself into God’s chosen people by preaching and teaching. When those who had been chosen by God heard His word and received it, they received the seed, the gene, of the kingdom. This seed, this gene, is the incarnated God, the Triune God in humanity. In the Gospels we have the sowing of this seed of the kingdom.

　　In the Acts we have the propagation and spreading of this sowing... In Acts hundreds and even thousands of sowers were raised up. All these sowers were those who received the seed, the gene. By receiving the seed they became those who could then sow it into others. In this way we have the propagation of the sowing and of the seed. In the Epistles we see the growing of the seed, the gene, of the kingdom... In 1 Corinthians 3:9b Paul says, “You are God’s cultivated land.” Elsewhere in the same chapter Paul says, “I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused the growth” (v. 6). Here in this chapter we have the growth, the development, of the seed.

　　The harvest of this seed is found in the last book of the New Testament, the book of Revelation. According to Revelation 14, we first have the firstfruits and then the harvest. Revelation 14:4 speaks of those who “were purchased from among men as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.” Then in verse 15 we see that the “harvest of the earth is ripe.” Those who are the firstfruits spoken of in Revelation 14 will be among those who will be co-kings with Christ in the millennium. The millennium, the thousand years, will be the full development of the gene of the kingdom. During the millennium many of those who have received the kingdom gene will be co-kings with Christ. In the new heaven and the new earth God will have an eternal kingdom with the New Jerusalem as the capital. The New Jerusalem will be a composition of kings, and these kings will rule over the fully restored nations. Then God will have an eternal kingdom as the full development of the gene sown in the Gospels by Jesus the Nazarene, who was the Triune God in humanity.

　　How wonderful is the kingdom gene that was sown in the Gospels! Eventually this gene will develop into the millennial kingdom spoken of in Revelation 20 and into God’s eternal kingdom in Revelation 21 and 22. Praise the Lord for this picture of the kingdom gene and its development! (Life-study of Mark, pp. 134-137)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of Mark, msgs. 14-16