Psalm 14 - The Fool Says, There Is No God

1 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good.

2 The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.

3 They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.

4 Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the Lord?

5 There they are in great terror, for God is with the generation of the righteous.
6 You would shame the plans of the poor, but the Lord is his refuge.

7 Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When the Lord restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.

    David begins his Psalm by describing what a lot of people in the world have said about God: “…There is no God.” This just goes to show us that there have always been and will continue to always be folks who do not believe that there is a God. They have a hard time rationalizing in their mind that there is a Creator who is the “Alpha and the Omega”, who is “King of kings and Lord of lords”. They say that it is not intelligent and rational to believe in God. David says that those people who say there is no God…they are fools.

   For example, did you hear recently what Stephen Hawking had to say about God? In the news the other day I heard an excerpt from his new book. He said, “Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going." In other words…It’s not necessary to believe in God. You don’t think he’s trying to draw attention to himself and his new book is he? (It is Interesting to me that he would reveal this “new information” in a new book he’s trying to plug.)

   Paul tells us in Romans 1:20, “For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.”

   Why are they fools? Because they cannot not look at the things of this world and truly see that there had to be someone greater than ourselves who put these things in place. Just think about the universe and how exactly the earth is set in space to sustain life, or how everything you look at has order, and design, and functionality, and how complex even the smallest molecule is.

   In fact I heard one person say, “The probability that all these things happened by accident is like a hurricane striking a junkyard and producing a 747!”

   One scientist said, “The really amazing thing is not that life on Earth is balanced on a knife-edge, but that the entire universe is balanced on a knife-edge, and would be total chaos if any of the natural 'constants' were off even slightly. - Dr. Paul Davies, professor of theoretical physics at Adelaide University”

   The truth of the matter is, people don’t believe in God because they do not WANT to believe in God. And what’s the effect of not believing in God? David tells us, “They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is

none who does good.” …Corruption thru and thru. (Does this apply at all today? You bet!)

   We are truly without excuse if we look at these “attributes of God” and still say, “There is no God.”