Psalm 14

Salmo 14

Verso 1

"O tolo". O ateu é o tolo eminentemente e um tolo universalmente.

He would not deny God if he were not a fool by nature, and having denied It is not surprising to God that he becomes a fool in practice. Sin is always a folly and, as it is the height of sin to attack one's own existence of the Most High, is also the greatest imaginable madness. To say that there is no God is to deny the clearest evidence, which is obstinacy; to oppose consent common to humanity, which is stupidity; to suffocate the conscience, which is madness. If the sinner could, by his atheism, destroy the God to whom he there was some sense, albeit very perverse, in his infidelity; but how denying the existence of fire does not prevent it from burning a man who it is in him, thus, doubting the existence of God will not prevent the Judge from all the land destroy the rebel who infringes its laws; or better, this atheism is a crime that strongly provokes heaven, and will bring terrible vengeance to the fool who it satisfies. The proverb says: 'The tongue of a fool cuts its own throat.' and, in this case, kills the soul and the body forever: for God, the damage stopped there even so, but there! a fool makes hundreds and a noisy blasphemer spreads his terrible doctrines, like lepers spreading the plague. Ainsworth, in his

Notes

to disappear, die or fall, like a wilted leaf or flower; it is a title given to the foolish man as having lost the juice and sap of wisdom, reason, honesty and piety. Trapp reaches the mark when he calls him 'that one a subject without withdrawal, the corpse of a man, that walking tomb of himself even, in whom all religion and reason are certain is dry and wasted, dry and decline. Some translate it as the apostate and others With what sincerity we should avoid the appearance of doubt regarding the presence, activity, power, and love of God, for all this distrust is of the nature of madness and who Among us, I would like to be classified as a fool. But let us never forget. that all unregenerate men are more or less foolish. With what seriousness we should avoid the appearance of doubt regarding the presence, activity, power and love of God, for all this distrust is of the nature of madness and who among us would wish to be classified as a fool in the text?

However, let us never forget that all unregenerate men are more or less foolish. With what seriousness should we avoid the appearance of doubt about the presence, activity, power, and love of God, for all this distrust is in the nature of madness and who among us would wish to be classified with the fool in the text? However, let us never forget that All unregenerate men are more or less foolish.

The fool "said in his heart". Can a man profess with his mouth to believe, and yet in the heart say the opposite? It would have been difficult for him to audacious tornado enough to express your madness with your tongue? The The gentleman considered his thoughts as being of the nature of words. for Him, although not for man? It is here that man first becomes disbeliever - in your heart, not in your head? And when he speaks of an atheist, it is a foolish heart speaking, and trying to call the voice of conscience? We we think so. If affections were imposed on truth and righteousness, the understanding would have no difficulty in resolving the issue of a Deity people present, but since the heart does not like what is good and right, it is not from admire that you wish to rid yourself of this Elohim. who is the great moral governor, the patron of righteousness and the Avenger of Iniquity. Although the hearts of men remain as they are, we should not be surprised by the prevalence of skepticism; a corrupt tree will bring forth corrupt fruit. "All man," says Dickson, "as long as it is not renewed and is not reconciled with God, is nothing effective but a madman. wonderful, then, if he is delirious? Fools like those we are with dealing now is common to all times and all countries; they grow without watering and are found all over the world. The dissemination of mere intellectual enlightenment will not decrease your number, for it is a matter of heart, this madness and great learning will often reside together.

To respond to skeptical requests, there will be lost work until grace enter to make the mind willing to believe; fools can raise more objections in an hour than wise men can to respond in seven years, in fact it is their joy to make men Wise men stumble. Let the preacher look into the heart and preach love. conqueror of Jesus, and he, by the grace of God, will win more unbelievers for the faith of the gospel than any of the hundred best thinkers that only direct their arguments to the head. "The fool said in his heart: There is no God" or "there is no God". So the monstrous statement that man hardly dared to say this like a positive statement, but it was very close to doing so. Calvino seems to consider this proverb 'no God', hardly reaching a syllogism, hardly reaching a positive dogmatic statement; but Dr. Alexander clearly shows that yes. It's not just the desire of the corrupt nature of the sinner, and the hope of his rebellious heart, but he can, in a way, assert itself, and at certain times it believes who believes in this. It is a solemn reflection that some who worship God with your lips may say in your hearts: "no God". It is worthy of observation that he does not say that there is no Jehovah, but there is no Elohim; A divinity in the abstract is not so much the target of the attack, but the presence of the covenant, people, ruler and ruler of God in the world. God as governor, legislator, worker, Salvador, is the target at which the arrows of human beings are killed. How powerless is malice! How furious is rage who laughs and foams against Him in whom we live, move, and have our being our being! How horrible is the madness that drives a man who owes everything to God crying out: "Not God"! How terrible is the depravity that makes the entire race adopt this as your heart desires, "there is no God!" How furious is the anger why laugh and foam against Him in whom we live, move, and have our being! How horrible is the madness that drives a man who owes everything to God crying out: "Not God"! How terrible is the depravity that makes the whole race adopt this as your heart desires, "there is no God!" How furious is the anger that laughs and foams against Him in whom we live, move, and have our being! How horrible is the insanity that leads a man who owes everything to God calling: "Not God"! How terrible is the depravity that makes the entire race adopt this as your heart desires, "there is no God!"

They are corrupt. of the Holy Spirit so to speak; see the third chapter of the epistle to the Romans. Where there is enmity against God, there is profound inner depravity. mind. The words are presented by eminent critics in a sense active, 'they did it corruptly', this can serve to remind us that sin is not only passive in our nature as the source of evil, but we activated the flame ourselves and became corrupted, making it even more black or dark that was already dark. We have shackled our own chains by habit and continuation.

They committed abominable works. When men begin to renounce O Most High God, who is to say where they will end up? When the eyes of the Master are erased, what will the servants not do? Observe the state of world before the flood, as described in Genesis 6:12, and remember that human nature remains unchanged. He who would see a terrible photograph of the world without God, it should read the most painful of all Inspired scriptures, or the first chapter of the epistle to the Romans. Learned The Hindus confessed that the description is literally correct in Hindustan. in the present moment; and if it weren't for God's restraining grace, it would be so in England. Oh! it is even here, but very correct, an image of things that are done by men in secret. Abominable things for God and for the men are sweet for some palates.

There is no one who does good. transgressions are abundant. Those who do things they shouldn't having done so, they will certainly put aside the things they should have done. That the image of our race is this! Save only where grace reigns, there is no one do good; humanity, fallen and degraded, is a desert without an oasis, a night without a star, a pile without a jewel, a hell without bottom.

Verse 2

"The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men." watchtower, or from another elevated place of observation, the Lord is represented looking intensely at the men. He will not punish blindly, not even as a tyrant will command an indiscriminate massacre because a rumor of rebellion reached your ears. What interest condescending and impartial justice are imagined here! The case of Sodom, visited before being taken down, illustrates the careful way in which the Divine Justice contemplates sin before avenging it, and pursues the righteous. so that they do not perish with the guilty. Then behold the eyes of the Omniscience roaming the globe and peering among all peoples and nations, "to see if there was anyone who understood and sought God." The one who is looking down knows the good, is quick to discern, would be very happy to find him; but as he sees all the unregenerated children of the men, your search is fruitless, for of all the race of Adam, no soul not renewed is another that is not an enemy of God and goodness. The objects the search for the Lord is not for rich men, great men, or men instructed; these, with everything they can offer, cannot satisfy the requirements of the great governor: at the same time, he is not looking for by superlative eminence in virtue, he seeks anyone who understand yourself, your state, your duty, your destiny, your happiness; he looks for anyone who seeks God, who, if there is a God, be willing and eager to meet him. Surely this is not a question too big to wait; because if men still do not know the God, if they have any correct understanding, they will seek it. But how he... see all the unregenerate children of men, their search is fruitless, for of all the race of Adam, no unrenewed soul is anything other than a enemy of God and goodness. The objects of the Lord's search are not rich men, great men or educated men; these, with everything that they can offer, but cannot satisfy the demands of the great governor: At the same time, he is not looking for superlative eminence in virtue, he seeks anyone who understands themselves, their state, your duty, your destiny, your happiness; he seeks anyone who I seek God, who, if there is a God, is willing and eager to find him. Surely this is not a very big issue to wait for; Why have men not known God yet, if there is any? correct understanding, they will seek him. but as he sees all the children no regenerated men, their search is fruitless, for of the entire race of Adam, no unrenewed soul is anything other than an enemy of God and the kindness. The objects of the Lord's search are not rich men, great men or educated men; these, with everything they can offer, do not can meet the demands of the great governor: at the same time, he he is not looking for superlative eminence in virtue, he is looking for anyone who understands themselves, their state, their duty, their destiny, your happiness; he looks for anyone who seeks God, who, if if there is a God, be willing and eager to find Him. Surely this it is not a very big question to expect; because if men still do not know God, if they have any correct understanding, they They will seek. 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Certainly this is not a very big issue to wait for; why men still do not know God, if they have any correct understanding, they will seek you. your duty, your destiny, your happiness; he looks for anyone who seeks God, who, if there is a God, be willing and eager to meet him. Surely this is not a question too big to wait; because if men still do not know the God, if they have any correct understanding, they will seek it. Alas! Even this low degree of goodness cannot even be found by that one who sees all things, but men love the hideous denial of "No God" and, with their backs to their Creator, who is the sun of their lives, they travel to the dark region of disbelief and alienation, which is a land of darkness like its own darkness, and from the shadow of death without any order and where the light is like darkness.

Verse 3

"They all left." Without exception, all the men they apostatized from the Lord their Creator, from His laws and from all principles eternal rights. Like stubborn heifers, they firmly refused to receive the juice, like wandering sheep found a gap and left the correct field. The original speaks of race as a whole, as a totality; and the humanity as a whole has become depraved at heart and corrupted in life. "They have become filthy;" as a whole, they are spoiled and corrupted like yeast, or, as some say, they have become rotten and even smelling. The only reason we don't see more clearly this impurity is because we are used to it, just like those who work daily among unpleasant odors finally stop smell them. The miller does not notice the noise of his own factory, and we are slow to discover our own ruin and depravity. But there are no special cases, are all sinful men? "Yes," says the psalmist, in a way not to be mistaken, "they are". He placed positively, he repeats negatively: "There is no one who does good, no, no" "Um." The Hebrew phrase is a total denial regarding any man who He does well. What can be more comprehensive? This is the verdict of Jehovah. that sees everything, that cannot exaggerate or make mistakes. As if there were no hope of to find a solitary specimen of a good man among the human family not renewed could be sheltered for an instant. The Holy Spirit was not happy to say everything and in everything, but adds the triple negative: none, no, none. What the opponents of the doctrine say natural depravity for that? Instead, what we feel in relation to this? We do not confess that we, by nature, are corrupt, and do not we bless the sovereign grace that renewed us in the spirit of our minds, so that sin may no longer have dominion over us, but that grace may to govern and to reign?

Verse 4

The hatred of God and the corruption of life are the motivating forces that they produce persecution. Men who have no saving knowledge. of divine things, if they enslave themselves to become wicked, they have no spirit to cry out to the Lord for deliverance, but they seek to have fun devouring the poor and despised people of God. It is a difficult slavery to be a "worker of iniquity"; a worker in the galleys, or in the mines of Siberia is no longer truly degraded and miserable; the labor is hard and the reward is terrible: those who lack knowledge choose such slavery, but whoever is taught by God cries to be rescued. The same ignorance what keeps men enslaved to evil makes them hate their children books of God; therefore, they seek to eat them 'as they eat bread', daily, voraciously, as if it were a common matter, common, everyone the days to oppress the saints of God. Like spears in a lake, they eat little fish, for the eagles attack the smaller birds, just as the wolves do. we take the sheep from the pasture, the sinners, naturally and naturally, they persecute, defame, and mock the followers of the Lord Jesus. Meanwhile, thus, preying, they renounced all praying, and in this act consistently, for how could they expect to be heard while their Are hands full of blood?

Verse 5

The oppressors do not have their way, they have their attacks of tremor and its determined seasons of downfall. There, where they denied to God and protested against His people; there, where they thought of peace and security, they were forced to bow. "They were" - these Nimrods and Herod with a very noisy heart, with iron hands, proud, those fishermen with heads held high - "they were very afraid." A terror panic took hold of them: "they feared fear," as the Hebrew says; a indefinable, horrible, and mysterious dread took hold of them. The men more hardened ones have their periods in which consciousness throws them into a cold sweat of the alarm. As cowards are cruel, all cruel men are cowards from the heart. The ghost of past sin is a terrible specter for to astonish any man, and although unbelievers may boast so loudly As much as you want, There is a sound in your ears that makes you feel a little uncomfortable.

For God is in the generation of the righteous. pious so painful for the wicked, because they realize that God is with them. Closing their eyes as they can, they cannot help but to perceive the image of God in the character of His truly gracious people, They cannot fail to see that he works for his liberation. How Haman, they instinctively feel a tremor when they see Mordecai God. Even if the saint may be in a median position, I mourn in the gate where the pursuer rejoices in state, the sinner feels the influence da verdadeira nobreza e codornizes do crente diante dele, pois Deus está lá.

I heard the scoffers, because they pursue the Lord Jesus when they trouble. your people; the union is very close between God and His people, it amounts to a mysterious dwelling, because God is in the generation of the righteous.

Verse 6

Despite their true cowardice, the wicked place lion's skin and dominate over the poor of the Lord. Although they are foolish, zombies of truly wise people as if madness were on their side of them; but that is what could be expected, for as the brutal minds they should appreciate excellence, and like those who have owl eyes Can we admire the sun? The special point and the tip of your game seems is the trust of the righteous in their Lord. What your God can do for you now? Who is this God that can deliver from our hand? Where is the reward for all your prayers and supplications? Provoking questions in this way, they penetrate the faces of weak yet graceful souls, and try make them feel ashamed of their refuge. Do not let us be laughed at by our confidence, let us disregard and challenge your mockery; we will have Just wait a little, and then our Lord, our refuge, will take vengeance on his. own chosen ones and free themselves from their adversaries, who once did so little of him and his people.

Verse 6

This closing prayer is natural, for what would convince so effectively the atheists, would overthrow the persecutors, would remain in sin and would ensure the pious, like the apparent manifestation of the great salvation of Israel? The coming of the Messiah was the desire of the righteous in all times, and although he has already come with an offer for sin to purify the iniquity, we hope that he comes a second time, to come without one offer by sin for salvation. What these weary years would have a End! Why does it take so long? He knows that sin is abundant and that your people are downcast; why does he not come for the rescue? Your glorious Advent will restore its ancient people from literal captivity and its seed. spiritual of spiritual sadness. Wrestling Jacob and prevailing Israel must rejoice before him when he is revealed as your salvation. What he came! What holy, sacred, and celestial days we must see! But not the let us consider negligent, for behold, it comes, it comes soon! Blessed are... all who wait for him.