27“神的儿子”一辞,对父是何等悦耳。主耶稣受浸时,父宣告说,“这是我的爱子,我所喜悦的。”(太三17)主变化形像时,父作了同样的宣告(十七5)。因为父喜悦祂的儿子,父爱子的国就是喜乐的事,喜悦的事。因这缘故,父爱子的国仅仅包括三部分—召会生活的部分,在千年国时诸天之国的属天部分,以及新天新地同新耶路撒冷作召会与国度的完成。在这三部分的每一部分,神爱子的国都是喜悦的事。父借着祂的怜悯与恩典,将我们从撒但的黑暗,迁入国度这喜乐的部分(新约总论第八册,三九至四○页)。 27The words the Son of God are a delight to the Father’s ears. When the Lord Jesus was baptized, the Father declared, “This is My Son, the Beloved, in whom I have found My delight” (Matt. 3:17). When the Lord was transfigured, the Father made the same declaration (Matt. 17:5). Because the Father delights in His Son, the kingdom of the Son of the Father’s love is a pleasant thing, a matter of delight. This is the reason it comprises only three sections—the section of the church life, the section of the heavenly part of the kingdom of the heavens in the millennium, and the new heaven and the new earth with the New Jerusalem as the consummation of the church and the kingdom. In each of these three sections the kingdom of the Son of God’s love is a matter of delight. The Father, by His mercy and grace, has transferred us out of the darkness of Satan into this pleasant part of the kingdom. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 2582-2583)