Darkness in a Non-Electric Culture
Driving home: wherever the truth of God that body of divine revelation has not shed its healing illuminating beams there can be nothing but moral and spiritual darkness
Martin uses the experience of living without electric lights (e.g., hearing a noise at night, walking near a precipice) to help listeners appreciate the biblical figure of darkness as foreboding, distorting perception, and exposing one to unseen dangers, thus illustrating spiritual darkness.
living in the 20th century with electric lights and all other kinds of lights it's difficult for us to appreciate this biblical figure of darkness imagine what it was like to hear a noise in the middle of the night and think a parlor might be there and have no flashlight to grab and shine on them or have no light to switch and you know something's over there in the dark and by the time you run to get your little torch and light it or your little kerosene lamp he's gone just in little ways like this imagine what it's like when the kids cry out in the middle of the night and we keep a flashlight...
10:46 - 12:14 Read in full sermon