21在马可四章二十六至二十九节主耶稣说,国度如同人把种子撒在地里。这种子发苗,长叶,吐穗,至终被收割。国度是一粒种子,撒在地里,长大直到成熟,那时就被收割。种子是主耶稣这位照耀者。我们都是土壤,主耶稣这种子撒在其中。种子渐长,至终产生收获,就是国度完全的实现。因此,国度乃是主耶稣这生命的种子,撒在我们里面,生长在我们里面,直到祂在收割的时候达到成熟。……种子在我们里面的生长就是国度的过程。一面我们是在国度里,但另一面我们是在国度的过程中。……今天我们里面有国度的种子在生长。这国度的生长要带我们达到收割,那个收割就是国度完全的实现(李文集一九七二年第二册,二五页)。
21In Mark 4:26-29 the Lord Jesus said that the kingdom is like a man who sows seed into the earth. The seed grows, the blade appears, the ear appears, and finally it is harvested. The kingdom is a seed that is sown into the earth and that grows until it reaches maturity, at which time it is harvested. The seed is the Lord Jesus as the shining One. We all are the soil into which the Lord Jesus as the seed has been sown. The seed grows and eventually will produce the harvest, the full manifestation of the kingdom. Thus, the kingdom is the Lord Jesus as the seed of life who has been sown into us and who grows in us until He reaches maturity at the time of harvest…The growth of the seed within us is the process of the kingdom. On the one hand, we are in the kingdom, but on the other hand, we are in the process of the kingdom… Today we have the seed of the kingdom growing within us. This growth of the kingdom will bring us to the harvest, and that harvest will be the full manifestation of the kingdom. (CWWL, 1972, vol. 2, “The Kingdom,” p. 19)