Ep. 100. Psalm 14,53 | The Fool

THE FOOL: PSALM 14, 53

"The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.'" We don't have to look hard to find people who would make such a statement. It is everywhere we look today. And the people who would deny God are bold about doing so. The Bible calls them fools, and so they are. Mankind, left to their own devices, are enemies of God and separated from him by their sin. But in Christ, and in him alone, do we find the means for forgiveness and life everlasting. Of course, it would be foolish to deny the God who made you and provided the means for salvation.

But this text isn't just for the fools. Paul, in Romans, uses it to show that all people, Jews and Gentiles, are sinners. There is no one righteous before God and no one with understanding. Not a soul seeks after God. This text should cause us to at least ask follow-up questions to those who say we all have a God-shaped hole in us that we are trying to fill. This passage in Romans also does away with the faulty concept that mankind is basically good for we read, "no one does good, not even one." Paul does go a bit overboard in Romans 3 and quotes multiple Old Testament texts to prove his point.

ADDITIONAL READING: Ephesians 2:3; John 3:16; Romans 3: 9-20; Romans 1:16-17; Psalm 5:9; Psalm 140:3; Psalm 10:4; Psalm 10:7; Psalm 36:1; Isaiah 59:71