We can enter into the kingdom of God as the realm of God’s species through regeneration to be born of God to be children of God with God’s life and nature, and we live in the kingdom of God by the sense of life; in the church, we live in the kingdom of God today, living by the divine life in our spirit! Amen!
Lord Jesus, how we thank You and praise You for regenerating us with Your life so that we may be children of God! Praise the Lord, we have the authority to be called children of God, those who are born of God! Amen, Lord, may we realise who we are. May we see that we are part of the species of God, those living in the kingdom of God. We exercise our spirit today. We want to live in the kingdom of God as the realm of the divine life by the sense of life in our spirit. Oh Lord, we love You!
We turn our heart to You! We exercise our spirit to live in the spirit and according to the Spirit in all things! Amen! One aspect of living the life of a God-man is living in the kingdom of God as the realm of God’s species. Wow!
We Christians, the genuine believers in Christ, are not regular people; we are not more special than others, but we have God’s life in us.
Outwardly, we may look the same as those around us, and even the activities we do, the things we wear, and the way we eat, everything may be similar to those around us, but inwardly, we have God’s life and nature. We are born of God! Amen, we are God-men!
We are in the kingdom of God as the realm of God’s species. Christ is the vine, and we are the many branches in the vine. We have been grafted into Christ at the time of our regeneration, and now live in the organic union with the Lord.
Christ is a universally vast vine tree, spreading and growing and increasing all over the earth to bring in the kingdom of God.
The kingdom of God is not just the realm where God rules and reigns as King; the kingdom of God is an organism constituted with God’s life as the realm of life for His ruling!
Amen, in the kingdom of God, He reigns by His life, and He expresses Himself as the Divine Trinity in the divine life!
The Father is the source, the Son is the coming out and springing up of the Father, and the Spirit is the flow of the Triune God reaching us, imparting all that God is into us, and bringing us into oneness with God.
And we, the believers in Christ, are in God, one with God, even part of God – not in the sense of being worshipped or being almighty and all-inclusive, but in the sense of being part of the kingdom of God, the species of God. Hallelujah!
We Enter into the Kingdom of God as the Realm of the Divine Species by being Born of God to have the Divine Life and the Divine Nature and Become the Same as God
The kingdom of God is a realm not only of the divine dominion but also of the divine species; in this realm are all the divine things (John 3:3, 5-6; 18:36).
One night, Nicodemus came to the Lord Jesus to ask Him some questions; he had a lot of spiritual knowledge, he was seeking God, and he wanted to see the kingdom of God. He was a teacher among the Jewish people, and he considered Christ as a teacher who had come from God.
He might have sought some better teachings to improve himself, but the Lord Jesus told him that, if he wants to see the kingdom of God, he must be born again.
The kingdom of God is the realm of the species of God, and in John 3 in particular, the kingdom of God refers more to the species of God than to the reign of God.
This is what Jesus came to teach: we need to enter into the kingdom of God by being born of God, by being born anew!
If we are not born anew, we don’t have the capacity to see the kingdom of God. What does it mean to be born anew? It is to be born of water and of the Spirit. To be born of water signifies the death of Christ, and to be born of the Spirit signifies His resurrection.
We need to die with Christ and be resurrected with Him to be a new person of another species, another realm, another kind: the God-man kind, the divine species. Wow!
The only way someone can be part of the animal kingdom is if he is born of that kingdom; the only way someone can be part of the human kingdom is if he is born of a man; the only way we can be part of God’s kingdom is if we are born of God.
This is why God became man, so that He may enter into the human species; now we can become God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead to enter into the realm of the divine species (John 1:1, 12-14; Rom. 8:3; 1:3-4).
God became man to enter into the human species, and we as men become God in life and nature but not in the Godhead to enter into the realm of the divine species.
Christ didn’t just pretend to be a man; He was born to be a man, being conceived in the womb of a virgin for nine months and then was born as a little baby, grew up in a normal way, and was a God-man.
God entered into man’s species, wow, to be begotten as a man, and then, through death and resurrection, He brought man into God, for He was designated to be God’s firstborn Son. Amazing!
Now whoever hears the gospel, repents, and believes into the Lord, that is, receives Him, becomes a child of God.
John 1:12-13 clearly tells us that as many as receive the Lord Jesus, to them He gives the authority to become children of God, to those who believe into His name.
Such ones are begotten not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. Amen! This is how we human beings can enter into the kingdom of God as the realm of the divine species: by being born again, that is, by faith in Christ!
In order for us to enter into the realm of the divine species, we need to be born of God to have the divine life and the divine nature (John 1:12-13; 3:3, 5-6, 15; 2 Pet. 1:4). We cannot be adopted into this kingdom. We cannot be naturalised in this kingdom. We have to be born again.
There has to be the divine life coming into our spirit to regenerate us and make us children of God for us to enter into the divine species. We need to call on the name of the Lord, Oh Lord Jesus, in order to be saved and enter into God’s kingdom.
If we don’t have the life of God, we cannot see the kingdom of God. But if we are born again of water (the death of Christ) and the Spirit (the resurrection of Christ), we are part of the kingdom of God, the realm of God’s species.
God created us, human beings, not according to man’s kind but according to His kind, for He created us in His image and according to His likeness for us to be God’s kind, God’s species (Gen. 1:26).
Adam was created in the image of God to bear His likeness. However, we believers in Christ who are born of God by regeneration to be His children in life and nature but not in His Godhead are more God’s kind than Adam was.
We now bear God’s image and likeness inwardly for we have His life and nature to express God.
We are not only God’s old creation, God’s creatures according to His image outwardly; we are born again to be God-men, part of the divine species, to express God!
Adam had only the outward appearance without the inward reality of the divine life. But we, the believers in Christ, are children of God, and we have the reality of the divine life.
We are now in the process of being transformed and conformed to the Lord’s image in our entire being (2 Cor. 3:18; Rom. 12:2; 8:29). Hallelujah!
Lord Jesus, we believe into You! We love You! Thank You for giving us the authority to be born of God, to be children of God! Hallelujah, all those who receive the Lord Jesus, that is, those who believe into His name, are given the authority to be children of God, those who are born of God! Amen, Lord, we are not merely born of the will of man or of the will of the flesh but of God! Praise the Lord, we believers in Christ are now in the kingdom of God, for we are in the realm of the divine species! Amen, Lord, we want to enjoy You today. We want to live according to Your life and nature in us. Thank You for becoming man to enter into the human species so that we men may become God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead to enter into the realm of the divine species! Praise the Lord, we believers in Christ are now more God’s kind than Adam was, for we have God’s life and nature to bear His image and live the life of a God-man! Amen, Lord, we want to live a God-man life in the kingdom of God as the realm of the divine species! Amen!
Live in the Kingdom of God as the Realm of the Divine Life by the Sense of Life in the Church Life
We believers in Christ need to see who we are and what we are, according to the divine revelation in God’s word.
We are not merely men born of our human parents; we are not merely Christians who believe what the Bible says, but even more, we are God-men, children of God born of God with His life and nature.
We have a second birth – our regeneration – which caused us to enter into the kingdom of God to become the species of God. Wow, we have been regenerated to be Godkind; we are the sons of God, and we are a new kind – God’s kind, God’s species (Rom. 8:19; Heb. 2:10).
All the genuine children of God are in the divine realm of the divine species. This is what the Bible tells us.
If a cat begets cats, a goat begets goats, and a man begets a man, then what does God beget? If we are born of God, what are we? We are God, that is, we are God-men, men who are born of God with His life and nature.
For the sake of not being confusing to those who think that we call ourselves God, we need to say that we are regenerated to be children of God in the divine realm of the divine species. We are God-men in the divine species, that is, God-men living in the kingdom of God.
We are born of God not in our mind or in our emotion, nor is it according to our will; we are God-men born of God in our spirit.
That which is born of the Spirit is spirit (John 3:3, 6), and that which is born of God is a child of God, a God-man (John 1:12-13).
As children of God, we are part of the household of God (1 Tim. 3:15; 1 Pet. 4:17; John 14:2), and we are constituents of the Body of Christ, the many members of the organism of Christ on the earth. Hallelujah!
This Body of Christ will consummate in the New Jerusalem as the eternal kingdom of God and of Christ (1 Cor. 6:9; Eph. 5:5; 2 Pet. 1:11; Rev. 11:15). Praise the Lord!
The basis for us to live the life of a God-man for a new revival is our seeing who we are; we believers in Christ are God-men in the divine species, that is, in the kingdom of God.
We live in the kingdom of God today as the realm of the divine life by the sense of life.
As we set our mind on our spirit, our mind is filled with God as life, and there is a sense of life in our being. Many times we are drifting away from the Lord, wandering in our mind, and not being in our spirit.
We need to learn to come back to the Lord and set our mind on our spirit, where Christ is. We live in the kingdom of God by the sense of life; as we mind our spirit and obey the inner sense, we live in the kingdom of God as the realm of the divine life.
Every life, every kingdom, has a certain sense; the cats have a particular sense according to which they live, and the dogs have another sense according to which they live.
Each kind has its own sense, and the animal of that kind lives according to its particular sense.
Some birds fly to warmer countries or areas when the weather becomes colder; this is a sense that they have, and they live according to that sense. We believers in Christ have a sense in the divine life in our spirit, and we should live according to that sense.
We simply need to turn to the Lord, exercise our spirit to contact Him, and obey the inner sense of life. Many times we need to confess our sins, for our conscience is spotted and dirtied with many sins; once we confess under the Lord’s light, we have a rich and keen sense of life.
In the church life today, we are living in the kingdom of God; Romans 14:17 is a strong proof that today’s church life is the kingdom of God. We live according to the sense of life in the church life as the kingdom of God.
Lord Jesus, enlighten us to realise that we have been regenerated to be Godkind, God’s species! May we realise that we have been born of God with His life and nature, and may we live according to the divine life and nature today! Amen, Lord, we want to live in the kingdom of God in our daily life. We set our mind on our spirit and we want to obey the inner sense of life and peace as we do all things. Keep us coming to You. Shine on us. Speak to us. Give us an inner sense concerning all things. Oh Lord, as God-men in the divine species, we want to live in the kingdom of God! Save us from living according to our natural preference and taste. May we mind our spirit and listen to the inner sense of life and peace. Amen, Lord, may we live in the kingdom of God in the church life today so that we may express You and represent You! Hallelujah, we are children of God living in the kingdom of God as the realm of the divine life by the sense of life! Amen, Lord, we love You!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother James Lee on this topic, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “Crystallization-study of the Gospel of John,” ch. 12, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Great Need for a New Revival (2026 Memorial Day Blending Conference), week 4, “Living the Life of a God-man by Living in the Kingdom of God as the Realm of the Divine” – day 5.
- Hymns on this topic:
– 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 stanzas 1-2)
– The Lord has been revealed in us, / The kingdom-seed so glorious; / He’s planted deeper than our heart, / And from us He will ne’er depart. / This seed is never satisfied / Just in our spirits to abide; / He wants to grow and spread today / To live in us in every way. (Hymns #1300 stanza 1)
– There is a certain sense of life / With life of every kind; / And in th’ eternal life in us / It is a sense divine. / The higher any life may be, / The better is its sense; / The life divine the highest is / And has the highest sense. / It is the sense of life in us, / It is the sense of God; / ’Tis in our spirit made alive, / And more than sense of good. (Hymns #738 stanzas 1-3)
