This is the understanding of these verses that
This is the understanding of these verses that is according to our spiritual experience. Apart from this understanding, we shall not know why the various sections in chapter eleven are put to gether. From our experience we know that when we remain in God to receive the riches of the Spirit's supply, we leave no room in us for de mons or for darkness. We are fully in the light. Therefore, we are filled with the riches of the Spirit and with light.
Luke 11:33 says, "No one having lit a lamp puts it in a secret place, nor under the bushel, but on the lampstand, in order that those who are entering in may see the light." In His min istry the Man-Savior brings light to us. Hence, such a ministry issues in the believers as lumi naries (Phil. 2:15) and the churches as lamp stands (Rev. 1:20), shining in this dark age as His testimony, and consummating in the New Jerusalem with the outstanding characteristics of life and light (Rev. 22:1-2; 21:11, 23, 24).
A "bushel" is a grain measure. A lighted lamp placed under the bushel cannot shine out its light. The believers as a lighted lamp should not be covered by the bushel, an item pertaining to eating, which causes anxiety (Matt. 6:25).
In Luke 11:34-36 the Lord continues, "The