约十五16　不是你们拣选了我，乃是我拣选了你们，并且立了你们，要你们前去，并要你们结果子，且要你们的果子常存，使你们在我的名里，无论向父求什么，祂就赐给你们。

　　徒一8　但圣灵降临在你们身上，你们就必得着能力，并要在耶路撒冷、犹太全地、撒玛利亚，直到地极，作我的见证人。

　　祭司与利未人在帐幕出发时有某些职责。出发就是往前行。因此，在圣别的事奉中所说到的，不是为着不活动的基督，乃是为着极其活跃的基督。在祂的活动中，我们必须与祂配合（民数记生命读经，三六页）。

　　John 15:16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and I set you that you should go forth and bear fruit and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He may give you.

　　Acts 1:8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

　　The priests and the Levites had certain duties in the tabernacle's setting out. To set out is to go forward. Thus, what is covered in the holy service is not for a Christ who is inactive but for a Christ who is very active. In His activity we must match Him. (Life-study of Numbers, p. 33)

　　利未人的事奉不是照着自己的作法，乃是在受膏祭司的指引之下。这指明我们作为事奉神的新约祭司，不该照着自己的观念行动，乃该在受膏眼光的指引之下，就是在那膏我们之灵的指引之下。……祭司照管主要的东西，最重要的东西；哥辖人照管次要的东西。照管圣所的物件就是照管主要的东西。祭司照管约柜。这是直接照管基督并供应基督。哥辖人抬圣所的物件（民四2~4、15、17~20、34~37）。今天我们这样作，就是对人说到召会作基督的扩大。

　　在神新约的经纶里，神没有人就不作什么。人必须与神是一，与神配合，并与神绑在一起。“与主联合的，便是与主成为一灵。”（林前六17）这含示在新约里，神的经纶已将人与神绑在一起。神甘愿受人的束缚，因为祂没有人就无法行动。如今神不仅与人一同行动，也在人里面行动。因此神从未直接向人传福音，祂乃是借着人传福音。

　　今天基督正在全地行动。“圣灵降临在你们身上，你们就必得着能力，并要在耶路撒冷、犹太全地、撒玛利亚，直到地极，作我的见证人。”（徒一8）作基督的见证人就是成为祂的见证，成为祂的见证就是成为祂的绘像。倘若我们是基督的见证，是祂的绘像，就无论我们去哪里，人都会看见祂。……所有的传福音者实际上都是基督的见证人和绘像。

　　我们需要看见今天主是如何行动。祂是在我们里面行动。我们是今日的革顺人、哥辖人和米拉利的子孙。我们要看见基督如何在地上行动，就应当看帐幕的行动。帐幕是在利未三个儿子后裔的肩头上行动。这行动是按着非常美好的次序，一点没有混乱。唯有亚伦和他儿子能观看圣物，接触圣物。利未人只在圣物收拾并遮盖好以后，才能观看、接触。平常人根本没有权利接触圣物。

　　由前文我们就领悟，并非每个人都能把主的恢复从一个国家带到另一个国家。因着主的怜悯，我能见证当我来到美国时，我带来了约柜同圣所一切的器具。我也带来会幕，就是基督的扩大—召会。主乃是借着我们背负约柜、圣所的物件和会幕而行动。

　　为神的扩大作神具体化身的基督，乃是借着那些爱祂的人而行动。我们若不行动，祂就无法行动，反而叫祂在我们里面受到束缚甚至监禁。我们若不行动，我们对主就成了监牢（民数记生命读经，三九、四一、三七至三八页）。

　　参读：民数记生命读经，第五篇；启示的事奉，第二篇。

　　The Levites did their service not according to their way but under the direction of the anointed priests. This indicates that we, the New Testament priests serving God, should not act according to our own idea but under the direction of the anointed view, that is, under the direction of the very Spirit who anoints us.

　　The priests took care of the primary things, the most important things, and the Kohathites took care of some of the secondary things. To take care of the furnishings of the sanctuary is to take care of the primary things. The priests took care of the Ark. This is to take care of Christ directly and to minister Christ. The Kohathites carried the furnishings of the sanctuary (Num. 4:2-4, 15, 17-20, 34-37). To do this today is to speak concerning the church as the expansion of Christ.

　　In His New Testament economy, God does nothing without man. Man must be one with God, match God, and be bound together with God. "He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit" (1 Cor. 6:17). This implies that in the New Testament God's economy has bound man together with God. God is willing to be bound to man, for He cannot move without man. Now God moves not only with man but also within man. This is why God never preaches the gospel directly to anyone; instead, He preaches the gospel through man.

　　Christ is moving today throughout the earth. "You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth" (Acts 1:8). To be Christ's witnesses is to be His testimony, and to be His testimony is to be His portrait. If we are Christ's testimony, His portrait, people will see Him wherever we go....All gospel preachers are actually witnesses, portraits, of Christ.

　　We need to see how the Lord moves today. He moves within us. We are today's Gershonites, Kohathites, and sons of Merari. In order to see how Christ moves on earth, we should look at the move of the tabernacle. The tabernacle moved on the shoulders of the descendants of the three sons of Levi. This moving was in a very good sequence, with no confusion. Only Aaron and his sons could look at the holy things and touch them. The Levites could look at them and touch them only after they had been packed and covered. The layman had no right at all to touch the holy things.

　　From the foregoing we can realize that not everyone is able to bring the Lord's recovery from one country to another. By the Lord's mercy, I can testify that when I came to the United States, I brought the Ark with all the furnishings of the sanctuary. I also brought the Tent of Meeting, which is the enlargement of Christ, the church. The Lord moves through our bearing the Ark, the furnishings of the sanctuary, and the Tent of Meeting.

　　Christ, the embodiment of God for His expansion, moves through those who love Him. If we do not move, He cannot move. Rather, He is bound and even imprisoned within us. If we do not move, we become a prison to the Lord. (Life-study of Numbers, pp. 36-37, 33-35)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of Numbers, msg. 5; CWWL, 1950-1951, vol. 2, "Serving according to Revelation," ch. 2