The Kingdom of God is Christ as the Seed of Life Sown and Developing in the Believers

The kingdom of God is the realm of the divine life for this life to accomplish its purpose; the kingdom of God is Christ Himself as the seed of life sown into us and developing into a realm over which God rules as His kingdom in His divine life.

The kingdom of God is not merely the sphere or realm of God’s rule and reign; it is the divine life coming into us, regenerating us, and growing in us to become a realm over which God can rule in His divine life.

God’s reigning over us is not an outward matter but a matter of the innate ability of the divine life. Our Christian life and our church life should increasingly be directed by the innate ability of the divine life, which is nothing else but God Himself growing within us.

The way to see the kingdom of God is to be born again, and the way to enter into the kingdom is by repenting and believing into the Lord Jesus. The kingdom of God doesn’t come with observation; people can’t say that they see it here or there, for the kingdom is something inward, something spiritual.

However, many times we are distracted by outward things, and we want something visible and tangible; the Lord Jesus when He came, He Himself was the kingdom, and as the Spirit He is in our spirit as the kingdom of God – this is inward, hidden, and spiritual.

When we were born again, when we were born of water and the Spirit (John 3:3, 5), we entered into a new realm, the realm of the divine species, and in this realm are all the divine things.

In the realm of the divine species – which is the kingdom of God – we can know God, enjoy God, experience God, live God, and express God, for we have His divine life and divine nature.

God created us in His image and according to His likeness, and He Himself became like one of us; God became man for Him to enter into the human species, and through regeneration and transformation we become God in life and nature but not in the Godhead for man to enter into the divine species. Wow!

All genuine believers in Christ on earth are a different species of people, a different breed – they are not just human and not just divine, but divinely-human and humanly-divine, for they are God-men in Christ! Hallelujah!

We entered into the divine realm – the realm of the divine species – by believing into Christ to be born of God, and we are God-men in the kingdom of God! Hallelujah!

The Kingdom of God is the Realm of the Divine Life for this Life to Accomplish its Purpose

The kingdom of God is the realm of the divine life for this life to move, work, rule, and govern, so that the divine life may accomplish its purpose (see Matt. 6:13; John 3:3, 5, 15-16).

Every life works, moves, rules, governs, and has a purpose; the plant life works and moves in each plant to accomplish its purpose, and even more the divine life works and moves and rules in us to accomplish its purpose.

The preaching of the gospel brings in God as life, and this life – once received by us – becomes a kingdom, the kingdom of God.

When we received the Lord, we received the kingdom of God, and this kingdom in us is a realm for the divine life to work, to move, to rule, and to govern, so that life may accomplish its purpose.

The kingdom of God is the realm of life – the kingdom is the life of God itself, and this life produces the church, where the believers in Christ practice living in the kingdom of God.

No matter how much we’re taught concerning the kingdom, we cannot get into the kingdom of God; the entrance into the kingdom is not mental understanding or even our willing to do this but regeneration.

The only way we can enter into the kingdom of God as the realm of the divine life is by repenting and receiving the divine life. By repenting we admit that we are wrong and we have a change in our concept; by receiving the Lord we receive God as life to gain God Himself.

The divine life we receive through regeneration is not stagnant; it is a flowing life, even a river of water of life. So we need to allow room in our being for this life to move, work, and govern all the time.

The divine life in us may want us to do certain things, go certain places, say certain things, and even move to a certain place for the Lord’s testimony; we need to cooperate with the divine life in us so that life may accomplish its purpose.

The divine life in us grows, spreads, moves, works, and rules and governs in us. Through regeneration and baptism we were delivered out of the authority of darkness and transferred into the kingdom of the Son of God’s love, where we are ruled by love, light, and life.

Now in the kingdom of God we are no longer ruled by the self or the flesh but by God in His divine life in us.

So we need to ask the Lord, Lord, what is really governing me? Is my disposition or culture governing my daily life and living? Is the divine life in my spirit the governing and ruling factor in every aspect of my human life?

We may realise, if we are honest with the Lord, that we are not under the rule of the divine life in every aspect of our life; the Lord wants to bring us to the point where our inner being is ruled and governed by Him so that He may accomplish His purpose.

He wants to be able to do whatever He wants to do in the divine life in and through the Body. The kingdom of God is an organism constituted with God’s life as the realm of life for His ruling, in which He reigns by His life and expresses Himself as the Divine Trinity in the divine life (v. 5; 15:1-8, 16, 26).

Thank You Lord for bringing us into the realm of the divine life where this life can move, work, rule, and govern in us so that life may accomplish its purpose. Hallelujah, God as life has come into our spirit, and He is now spreading into every part of our being to spread and develop the kingdom of God. Amen, Lord, may the divine life be the ruling factor in our being; may our inner being be ruled and governed by You so that You may accomplish Your purpose in us.

The Kingdom of God is Christ as the Seed of Life Sown and Developing in the Believers

The Lord Jesus said in Matt. 4:26-27 that the kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed on earth, and this seed grows and develops.

This refers to the fact that the kingdom of God is Christ Himself as the seed of life sown into us, His believers and His chosen people; this seed grows and develops into a realm over which God rules as His kingdom in His divine life (see Luke 4:43; 8:5, 10; 17:20-21; Mark 4:3, 26-29).

The disciples in Acts 1 were still asking the Lord if He will bring the kingdom of God outwardly at that time, to overthrow the Roman Empire and restore the kingdom of Israel.

But this is not what the Lord wants to do in this age; He didn’t come to overthrow human government or to lead a revolution – He came to be the Sower sowing Himself as the seed of the kingdom into the hearts of His disciples.

Christ came as both the King and the Kingdom of God, and He sows Himself as the kingdom seed in us to grow in us and develop to become a realm over which God can reign and rule in His divine life.

When this seed grows and develops, that will be the reality of the kingdom, and when that reality is developed and the church is built up, Christ will return in glory and will reign on the earth.

The kingdom of God is a wonderful Person – the Lord Jesus Christ, the embodiment of the Triune God (see Col. 2:9).

The kingdom of God doesn’t come with observation, it is not outward; the kingdom of God was among those at the time of the Lord Jesus, and it is in us today as believers in Christ.

Wherever Christ is, there the kingdom of God is also (Luke 17:20-21); He has come into us, and He is expanding and growing within us.

Christ as the seed of the kingdom of God wants to spread into our mind and renew it until our mind becomes the mind of Christ. We all need to have a personal, private, secret, and ever-deepening life with the Lord so that we may give this Person the opportunity to spread Himself as the kingdom in all of our inward parts.

The Lord Jesus is the seed of the kingdom of God to be sown into God’s chosen people and develop into God’s ruling realm (Mark 4:26-29).

The kingdom seed needs to grow in us, in our heart, by Christ spreading in our heart. We need to be strengthened with power through the Spirit into the inner man so that Christ would spread in our heart by making His home in us (Eph. 3:14-19).

He doesn’t want to be limited only to our spirit; if He remains only in our spirit, we confine Him, we become a prison to Him. We need to learn to open our whole being to the Lord, giving Him the permission to touch every part of our heart, and He will develop and grow in us to be God’s ruling realm in our heart.

This wonderful Person, Jesus Christ as the seed of the kingdom and the kingdom itself, wants to spread and rule in our heart, and He will direct our heart. May we let Him grow and develop in us!

The kingdom of God as the realm of the divine life is the church life 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, this kingdom 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 of God’s redeemed to enjoy in the new heaven and new earth for eternity (see Rev. 21:1-4; 22:1-5). Hallelujah!

Hallelujah, the kingdom of God is Christ as the Sower sowing Himself as the seed of the kingdom into our heart to develop into a realm over which God may rule as His kingdom in His divine life! Amen, Lord, we want to cooperate with You and give You more ground in our being for You to spread, work, move, and operate, so that there would be a realm developing in us – the kingdom of God. May we daily grow in the divine life for the development of the kingdom of God, and may we live in the church life as the reality of the kingdom of God today.

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References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, the message by bro. Ron Kangas for this week, and portions from, The Conclusion of the New Testament, msgs. 240, 250-251 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Development of the Kingdom of God in the Church Life and the Christian Life (2019 spring ITERO), week 1, The Development of the Kingdom of God into a Realm over Which God Rules in His Divine Life.
• Hymns on this topic:
  # But now the kingdom to us has been shown, / It is no less than our Jesus alone. / It is the Person of Christ in us all, / And it begins as a seed when we call. (Hymns #1301)
  # God’s Kingdom on the earth is now / His sovereign government within; / ’Tis Christ Himself in us to live / As Lord and King to rule and reign. / His life with His authority / Enthrones Him now within our hearts / To govern all our words and deeds / And regulate our inward parts. (Hymns #942)
  # Lord, You’re the seed of life; / You’ve sown Yourself into our heart, / And now You have a start; / So day by day more life to us impart— / Lord Jesus, grow in us. (Hymns #1332)