林后三8~9　何况那灵的职事，岂不更带着荣光？若定罪的职事有荣光，那称义的职事，就越发充盈着荣光了。

　　出埃及二十五章二十二节上半说，“我要在那里与你相会。这指明神在成就平息的基督里，与祂的子民相会。

　　在二十二节〔下半〕神又说，祂“要从见证的柜遮罪盖上两个基路伯中间，和你说我所要吩咐你传给以色列人的一切事”。这意思是说，神从那作祂见证、成就平息的基督所彰显的荣耀中，向祂的子民说话（出埃及记生命读经，一一七一页）。

　　2 Cor. 3:8-9 How shall the ministry of the Spirit not be more in glory? For if there is glory with the ministry of condemnation, much more the ministry of righteousness abounds with glory.

　　The first part of Exodus 25:22 says, "And there I will meet with you." This indicates that God met with His people in the propitiating Christ.

　　In verse 22 God also said, "I will speak with you from above the expiation cover, from between the two cherubim which are upon the Ark of the Testimony, of everything which I will give you in commandment to the children of Israel." This means that God speaks to His people from the glory expressed in the propitiating Christ as His testimony. (Life-study of Exodus, p. 1011)

　　基路伯表征神的荣耀从基督照耀出来。因此，神从基路伯中间向祂的子民说话，意思就是神在祂的荣耀中向我们说话。除了在祂的荣耀中，神不在别的地方与祂的赎民相会。神无法在别的地方，或在别的情况下，与我们相会。每当神与我们相会，必是在祂的荣耀里。我们的经历能证实，每当我们与神相会，就觉得是在荣耀里，正如约柜盖上的基路伯所表征的荣耀。我们悔改相信主耶稣的那一天，就被带进荣耀的范围里。神从来不在黑暗里与我们相会；反之，祂总是在荣耀里与我们相会；并从荣耀的基路伯中间对我们说话。

　　我们在聚会中听人说话，只要他是说主的话，我们就该有在荣耀里的感觉。每当神的话在这个职事里说出来时，我们里面就觉得荣耀。今天许多传道人很有口才，但你听他们说话时，一点不觉得神的荣耀。你也许会赞赏他们的口才，也欣赏他们的知识，却没有神荣耀的感觉。然而，你听真正的话语职事时，你不是被口才或知识吸引，乃是被神荣耀的感觉吸引。你回家以后，荣耀会随着你。多年后，你仍会回想在那次聚会中所感觉到的荣耀。我们由经历中晓得，神乃是在祂的荣耀中与我们相会，并在祂的荣耀里对我们说话。甚至神对一个罪人说话时，也是在祂的荣耀里对他说话。

　　神在其中与我们相会并对我们说话的荣耀，乃是基督的照耀。基路伯表征基督在照耀。……这位照耀的基督是怎样的一位？……约柜是用皂荚木里外包金作成的。皂荚木预表基督的人性，金表征祂的神性。遮罪盖是用纯金作的，不含皂荚木，这指明基督的照耀是神圣的，祂乃是神荣耀的光辉。然而，基督的神性不是这种照耀的基础，祂照耀的基础乃是用来作约柜的皂荚木。不是金子托住皂荚木，乃是皂荚木托住金子。基督以祂的人性为基础，来彰显神性。今天在我们的经历中，我们需要耶稣的人性，好彰显基督的神圣性情。

　　出埃及二十五章十七节告诉我们遮罪盖的长与宽，但没有告诉我们遮罪盖的厚度有多少，因此我们不晓得约柜盖的重量。厚度没有记载，而且重量不为人所知，这指明基督的重量是无法测度的。没有人能说出基督到底有多重，按经历说，祂的重量乃是照着我们所能承受的。……基督对我们有多重，在于我们能承受多少的基督，我很担心有些圣徒只能承受极少量的基督（出埃及记生命读经，一一七一至一一七三页）。

　　参读：出埃及记生命读经，第八十六至八十七篇。

　　We have seen that the cherubim signify God's glory shining out from Christ. Thus, for God to speak to His people from between the cherubim means that He speaks to us in the midst of His glory. God does not meet with His redeemed people in any place other than the midst of His glory. God cannot meet with us in any other place or in any other condition. Whenever God meets with us, that meeting must take place in the midst of His glory. We can testify of this from our experience. Whenever we meet with God, we sense that we are in the midst of glory, a glory like that signified by the cherubim on the cover of the Ark. On the day we repented and believed in the Lord Jesus, we were brought into a realm of glory. God never meets with us in darkness. On the contrary, He always meets with us in glory and speaks to us from between the cherubim of glory.

　　When we listen to someone speaking in a meeting, as long as that speaking is the word of the Lord, we should have the sense that we are in glory. Whenever the word of God is spoken in the ministry, we sense glory within us. Many preachers today are eloquent. But when you hear them speak, you do not have any sense of God's glory. You may admire their eloquence and appreciate their knowledge, but there is no sense of God's glory. However, when you listen to the genuine ministry of the Word, you are attracted, not by eloquence or knowledge but by a sense of God's glory. After you return home, the glory may follow you. Years later, you may still recall the glory you sensed in that meeting. From our experience we know that God meets with us in the midst of His glory and speaks to us in His glory. Even when God speaks to a sinner, God speaks to him in His glory.

　　The glory in which God meets with us and in which He speaks to us is the shining of Christ. The cherubim signify Christ shining.

　　What kind of Christ is this shining Christ? We have pointed out that the Ark was made of acacia wood overlaid within and without with gold. Acacia wood typifies Christ's humanity, and gold signifies His divinity. The expiation cover was made of pure gold; it did not contain any acacia wood. This indicates that the shining of Christ, who is the effulgence of God's glory, is divine. However, Christ's divinity is not the base for this shining. Rather, the base for His shining is the acacia wood used to make the Ark. It was not the gold which bore the acacia wood; it was the acacia wood which bore the gold. With His humanity as the base, Christ expresses divinity. In our experience today, we need the humanity of Jesus in order to express Christ's divine nature.

　　Exodus 25:17 tells us the length and width of the expiation cover, but it does not tell us the thickness of the cover. Therefore, we do not know the weight of the lid of the Ark. The fact that the thickness is not given and that the weight is not known indicates that the weight of Christ is immeasurable. No one can say how weighty Christ is. Experientially speaking, His weight is according to what we are able to bear....How heavy Christ is to us depends on how much of Him we are able to bear. I am concerned that some saints are able to bear only an extremely small amount of Christ. (Life-study of Exodus, pp. 1011-1013)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of Exodus, msgs. 86-87