Jesus speaks about a lamp

Mark 4:21-25

The only purpose for a lamp is to give light. Nobody hides a lamp.

The lamp was like God‘s message. Jesus had told God‘s message to the disciples. And they must tell it to other people.

God‘s message is like something that is valuable. Usually, a person loses something valuable if he does not keep it. But light is different. It is only valuable if people can see it. A person wastes it if he does not give the light away.

So God wanted the disciples to take his message to many people. If they did that, they would not lose the message! Instead, they would receive even more!