Mark 4:24 “And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.”
This parable is called “A Lamp Under a Basket” because
our Lord Jesus asked this question in verse 21 “Is a candle brought to be
put under a bushel, or under a bed?” As Christians and especially as church
members we need to understand our important responsibility to the Lord and the
world. Jesus said in the “Great Commission to, “Go ye therefore, and teach
all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of
the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded
you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.” Matthew
28:19 It is not just the gospel we take to the world but also the entire word
of God. We are to take the gospel to them so that they may be saved, but we are
also to take the complete doctrine of God’s word to them. How can people learn
the truth of the word if “we” who have been blessed with the revelation of His
word fail to teach others. God does not bless us for us to hide His word but to
teach it to others. If we who are blessed do not continue to spread God’s truths,
then why would God continue to bless is with the truth. One problem with a lot
of Christians and even churches is they have not enough, or maybe no zeal to
accomplish the task that God has given us. God does not teach us to hide the
truth of the word, He teaches us that we will take that truth to the world.
Christians that fail to attend church are failing to study and learn God’s
word. Our purpose and goal should be to the Lord who graciously saved our souls
and taught us His word. We are God’s children and our goal in life is to surrender
all to the Lord and to learn of Him and His word and to be servants to Him. The
life of a Christian is to do the work of God’s calling of us and working every
day to serve Him. If we surrender to the will of Satan, then we drop out of church,
stop studying God’s word, and start caring what the world thinks. No one in our
life is as important as the Lord, nothing in this life is as important as the
Lord, and nothing is more pleasing as serving God. However, if we lose sight of
what we are supposed to do as Christians and especially as churches then we are
no longer serving the Lord. If we ever began to think of self-more than God, we
have lost our calling as Believers and lost the purpose of God’s command of us.
When a Christian fails to understand the importance of church, they start going
in a downhill spiral of serving God. Day by day they become less useful to God
because our usefulness begins and ends in the school of higher learning, and
that is the local church. The church is where you hear, it is where your
biblical improvement is made. How is God going to teach you if you are not
working to learn His word through His place of learning. How will others learn
if we are not teaching them, we are not self-taught. Think of church as school,
the more you attend the more you learn and the more you learn the more you can
teach others. If our schools were as empty as our churches, then look how ignorant
our society would be. We simply cannot hide our gift of learning from those
that are without, and we cannot help others that are without if we are hiding
our light under basket. Every believer has the responsibility to help make disciples
in this world, and this all works through the Local church. However, we cannot
accomplish this if we are not the light of the world and if we are hiding our
light under a basket. Matthew 5:14 “Ye are the light of the world. A city
that is set on an hill cannot be hid.” How bright is your light shining, or
do you have it hidden under a basket? The world is a dark place, it needs all
the light we can give to it.
