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3. God’s aim in calling us out of darkness is to send us back to (but not in) that darkness to “proclaim his excellencies.”
4. God’s aim is that the way we make his excellencies known to the darkened culture around us take place both by avoidance and by engagement.
5. Submission to cultural institutions (like the state, and places of employment and family) is not canceled out by our freedom in Christ (and our citizenship being in heaven, and our being “strangers and exiles on earth), but our submission is put on a whole new footing of submission to God.
6. Finally, Christians honor all persons, and seek to do it in different ways that are not the same for each, but appropriate to their roles in life.

1. We were once all in darkness, along with the whole world.

Notice the phrase near the end of verse 9: “Him who has called you out of darkness.” We were once in darkness. The darkness of sin and unbelief and ignorance about God and his ways. It was the darkness of deadness in sin, as Paul says in Ephesians 2:5. This is the condition of our culture and our society. And we were once a part of it by nature. Why are we no longer?

2. God called us out of darkness into his marvelous light.Read more at www.desiringgod.org

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