Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them;
We need to go out of our way and be willing to get uncomfortable in exposing the sin around us.
Yet, exposing sin, necessitates that we have first have confessed and forsaken sin on a practical level for we will never call out that sin in others which resides still in us
For that very sin that has become a habit for us and we will rationalize away the very evil we are doing in order to call it good.
Thus, the command here ‘do not participate’. Yet, outside of Christ, we simply can not.
But the very grace and mercy that saved us to start our Christian life, is the same grace and mercy we now. And that will be received when you and I have come to the place of experiencing the devastation we have allowed in us and around us because of that sin