What do people in spiritual darkness know and not know about spiritual power?
People in spiritual darkness know Satan and the powers of evil, and they fear the powerful works of the evil one, such as witch doctors. Yet they know nothing of the power of God. Their awareness is limited to evil's power, not God's saving power.
Les explains that when missionaries returned from foreign fields, they showed old movies revealing how people feared witch doctors because those witch doctors had power. He recalls one missionary saying that people in spiritual darkness know Satan and know the powers of evil, but they know nothing of the power of God. Les emphasizes that this is true: they know how to fear the powerful works of the evil one. In their idolatrous service, they went through rituals, offered sacrifices, and performed superstitious acts, but their fear was directed toward evil power, not the power of God.