Psalm 14

Psalm 14
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• 14 TO THE CHOIRMASTER. OF DAVID. gThis is describing largely the fruit of unbelief, which is of course, bad fruit.
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• 1 The hfool says in his heart,
• i “There is no God.”The fool in that day, different then somebody today walking down the street, meaning to put a person down. It meant stupid in the OT but, you were stupid because you didn't believe in God. In that day, everybody had a god, even if you were an idolator. It was unheard of back in David's day
• They are jcorrupt,Now here's the fruit of unbelief. they do abominable deeds,
• k there is none who does good. And Romans 1 says those who refuse the knowledge of God, it's just revealed in creation, His eternal power as godhead, that they refuse that & they supress the truth in righteousness. Then God gives them over to practice those things that are abominable. When someone refuses the knowledge of God, then there's no accountability. If you look at the caliber of crime, like in Russia, in America we have a problem w/ overcrowded prisons and such, but when you go to Russia & you look at the crimes of mass murder, cannibalism, the ungodliness manifests itself in abominable ways. And you look @ what it did to that nation, an entire nation decided there was no God. And there's no fruit in that. Atheists organizations are not building hospitals & orphanages & charities. They are corrupt. They've done abominable works & there's no sense of accountability that one day they'll stand before God.
• 2 The LORD llooks down from heaven on the children of man,
• to see if there are any who understand,2
• who mseek after God. Now Paul makes this argument & quotes this verse in Romans 3
• 3 They have all turned aside; together they have become ncorrupt;
• there is none who does good,
• not even one. Paul says there are none that seek after God.
• 4 Have they no oknowledge, all the evildoers
• who peat up my people as they eat bread
• and qdo not call upon the LORD?
• 5 There they are in great terror,
• for God is with rthe generation of the righteous.
• 6 You would shame the plans of the poor,
• but3 the LORD is his srefuge.
• 7 Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! And we feel that way everyday, Lord come quickly, David cried...
• When the LORD trestores the fortunes of his people,
• let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.