Thursday, June 16, 2016


Word of God
But he answering, said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
The Gospel According to Matthew 4:4

Psalm 14:1
Prefaced & Edited by Doktor Riktor Von Zhades

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God: they have corrupted, and done an abominable work: there is none that doeth good.

Brethren:

We cannot add much in the way of commentary for the above other than to say man’s current nature is one of sin. Righteousness as defined by our Creator is beyond his reach. This is particularly true of the ungodly, who would deny Him. Praise be to our Lord and Redeemer Christ Jesus for His sacrifice. For now His righteousness is imputed unto to us. (Read Romans Chapter 4)

This is to be understood not of a single individual person, as Nabal, which is the word here used; nor of some Gentile king, as Sennacherib, or Rabshakeh his general, as Theodoret; nor of Nebuchadnezzar, nor of Titus, as some Jewish writers interpret it, making one to be here intended, and the other in the fifty third psalm: the same with this; but of a body, a set of men, who justly bear this character; and design not such who are idiots, persons void of common sense and understanding; but such who are fools in their morals, without understanding in spiritual things; wicked profligate wretches, apostates from God, alienated from the life of God; and whose hearts are full of blindness and ignorance, and whose conversations are vile and impure, and they enemies of righteousness, though full of all wicked subtlety and mischief: these say in their hearts, which are desperately wicked, and out of which evil thoughts proceed, pregnant with atheism and impiety; these endeavor to work themselves into such a belief, and inwardly to conclude, at least to wish, [that there is] no God; though they do not express it with their mouths, yet they would fain persuade their hearts to deny the being of God; that so having no superior to whom they are accountable, they may go on in sin with impunity; however, to consider him as altogether such an one as themselves, and to remove such perfections from him, as may render him unworthy to be regarded by them; such as omniscience, omnipresence and to conceive of him as entirely negligent of and unconcerned about affairs of this lower world, having nothing to do with the government of it: and thus to deny his perfections and providence, is all one as to deny his existence, or that there is a God: accordingly the Targum paraphrases it: ‘there is no, government of God in the earth;’” - John Gill 17th Century Theologian






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