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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