January 21, 2009

• Psalm 14

  Psalms 14:1-7 KJV  <To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.> The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.  (2)  The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.  (3)  They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.  (4)  Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.  (5)  There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.  (6)  Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.  (7)  Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

  In this Psalm David is looking at the characteristics of the ungodly, and calling for the kingdom of El-Shaddai to be established.

  Nature itself cries out that there is a G-d, so it is not that they can’t believe in Adonai, it is a matter of the will, they don’t want to believe in Adonai! And in the Hebrew the words “There is” were added for clarification, so it should read “The fool has said in his heart, ‘No G-d.’” You see, he is not necessarily saying there is no G-d, but he is saying no to G-d. It is as Proverbs 1:7 says, “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, But fools despise wisdom and instruction.”

  The result of a person who has self on the throne of his heart, instead of G-d, is they are corrupt, their works are abominable, and they do what they feel is right, not what G-d has said. And as much as atheists come against Christianity, what do they use their money for? To destroy Christians. They do not use their money to build up, but to tear down. They don’t build hospitals, help the needy, but try to destroy the truth. But that won’t happen. Can you imagine what this world would be like if atheists were all there was?

  Man becomes worse without G-d, not better.

  Rom 3:10-12 KJV  As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: {11} There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. {12} They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

  Voltaire, the 18th-century French atheist who was one of the greatest writers of his time, wielded a bitter pen against Christianity.  In a moment of triumph he once boasted, “In twenty years Christianity will be no more.  My single hand shall destroy the edifice it took twelve apostles to rear.”  But Voltaire’s arrogance was swallowed up in his death.  He died, in his own words, “abandoned by God and man.”  Shortly after his death, the very house in which Voltaire wrote was made a depot of the Geneva Bible Society!
  – W.A. Criswell, Why I Preach the Bible is Literally True,  pp. 103-104

  As much as the wicked come against G-d’s people, they won’t win.

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