Notes on Psalm 14

(Psa 14:1) To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

If there was any person that was foolish, it would be someone who does not believe in God. How can we look at the creation and even consider that it was an accident and that it evolved into being over a period of millions of years. How can life come from nothing and become something. Look how a seed is planting into the ground and it becomes edible food. Look at a newborn babe and how it has two eyes, two ears, a mouth, a nose, heart, kidneys, lungs, and all things it needs to survive. Yet that baby needs a parent to care for it until it is grown. If the baby was left alone with no care, it would die. How could it have evolved then. In what state would it have been able to survive without something keeping it alive. Evolution is the most impossible theory every thought up by the foolishness of man. It was thought up by those who didn't want to believe in God. Why?

Perhaps they were turned off of the Christianity, Judaism, and Islam they've seen throughout history. Wars, fighting, and evil continually coming from those that believe in God. Then perhaps the they want to live in sin and do not want a God to tell them how they should live.

What we don't always realize is the there is a God, certainly but there is also an opponent of God who is out to wreck the work of God in any way he can. So he tries to get Christians, Jews, and Muslims to fight continually so that they will consume one another. Satan then has what he has always wanted and that is to destroy what God wants to save.

Christians claim that God sent Jesus Christ to save them from there sins so that they can inherit eternal life. So why did Christians do evil during the Crusades and other periods in history?

Because Satan wanted to wreck their message of salvation. Jesus Christ is perfect and did no evil. Our salvation depends on our faith in Him as the one God sent to take away sins. Just because Christians have messed up, does not mean that the message of the gospel is not true. There are Christians that are full of God's Spirit and do love their neighbor and love God with all their hearts. Satan does try to wreck that in them all the time so that no one will listen to what they have to say. Even though we receive Jesus Christ and become "born again," does not mean that we can't sin. God did not make us puppets. We still have a free will to choose good from evil. Once we accept Jesus as savior, we must continue in Him and abide in Christ. We must walk by faith every day of our lives and strive to continue in the faith. We must resist the devil continually or else we will lose our testimony before the world and they will not see Jesus in us.

Those Christians who persecuted others because they did not believe as they (the Christians) did, had fallen away from their first love. Read Revelations chapter 2. They had long since substituted the love of Jesus Christ for a religious spirit. Their religion became outward form and ritual rather than an inward spirit-filled life.

They had long since lost their original faith in Jesus Christ, by the time the Crusades had taken place. When Mohammed came upon the scene and thus the beginning of Islam, Christianity was not what it first was either. Mohammed met Christians and Jews. He must not have seen love, joy and peace through those that were walking in God's Spirit. Perhaps all he saw was religion. So he started another religion. My guess is that at the time of Mohammed no religion resembled love, joy, and peace that comes through true faith in Jesus Christ.

Jesus came to save us from sin. When we come to Jesus turning from our sin and accepting Him by faith, we receive the Holy Spirit. This wonderful Holy Spirit abides within us. We can continually be filled with the Spirit as we walk in faith and love. It is more than another religion. We are no longer alone. We no longer have a form of religion but a new life within us. We lose our desire to sin. We no longer have to try to keep from sinning and using our will power but we can keep from sinning by trusting in God to help us daily. We have His Holy Spirit to abide in us and cause us to love righteousness. Even then, Satan tries to wreck that and either get us to return to sin or become religious and rob us of the love that we once had. We can resist this.

James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
James 4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

We are commanded to love people who are unbelievers, not hurt them.

Mat 5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

A true Christian will not hate the Jew or Muslim. He will love their souls and desire their salvation. A true Christian will not hate those in Christianity that believe a little different. We do not have to join together into one world church. That should be avoided, but we are commanded to love one another. We cannot compromise the truth of the gospel but we can get along and love one another.

To fellow Christians, I say, let us not lose our testimony before the world by allowing hate to enter our hearts toward those of a different faith or no faith. Rather pray for them that they may find Jesus Christ and believe the gospel. Jesus Christ is the one God sent to take away sin and grant us eternal life. He is the only way make no mistake about that. His death on the cross was necessary to pay the price for all our sins. If there would have been another way, God would not have allowed His Son to become one of us and suffer in such a manner. Jesus became flesh to show us the way to God. He is the only way to God.

Joh 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

(Psa 14:2) The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.

God continually searches for those who seek Him.

(Psa 14:3) They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

He is grieved to see us walking in sin, ignoring the word of God and no longing believing in Him and the gift of eternal salvation He offers to all who believe. He made a way that we can be free of this sin that is destroying us here on earth and for eternity. Sin kills and destroys. God can take away that sin but we have to come to Him and allow Him to do so. We cannot save ourselves. We have to come to God through His Son, Jesus Christ. If we don't let Jesus remove our sin and cancel out the debt of sin, we will die in our sin and be lost in eternal hell.

Neglect of the word of God is what causes us to not have any victory over sin. Without this, we war and fight continually.

(Psa 14:4) Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

God always has a people existing somewhere. This is not a certain race, religion or denomination but mixed in with all those races, religions and denominations are those who love His word and continually walk in God's Holy Spirit.

Its not the Baptist Church, the Pentecostal church, the Methodists, the Jews, Islam, or Catholic that are God's people, it is individuals who have accepted Jesus Christ as savior from sin and are filled with the Holy Spirit. God's people are people that obey Him, obey His word and walk in the Spirit, not in the flesh. Hallelujah.

Salvation is individual, it is not a certain organized religion. There are many in those religions that are saved and walking in the Spirit but it is because they have accepted Jesus Christ and not because they joined a church.

Workers of iniquity are those that do not call upon the Lord, do not obey His word and persecute the true believers in Jesus Christ.

(Psa 14:5) There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.

True Christians will love righteousness and refuse sin. God is in the midst of those that love Him and resist sin.

(Psa 14:6) Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.

True religion will care for the poor. If you see any losing compassion for the poor, you will see those that do not know the Lord or have once known Him but have fallen away from their first love.

(Psa 14:7) Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

David was giving a prophecy in verse 7. He foretold the day when salvation would come out of Israel. Jesus Christ is that salvation and at His Second Coming Israel will discover their true Messiah, Jesus Christ and find out that the one their ancestors rejected is the very Messiah that was to save them from sin and bring them eternal life.

Mat 1:20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
Mat 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

HE SHALL SAVE HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS.

Is this just for the Jews? No.

John 10:16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

Jesus brings all together and we become one in Jesus Christ. This is not an organized church on this earth but all are one through faith in Jesus Christ.

We need church to have fellowship with other believers but the church is not our salvation, it is Jesus Christ.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

This gift is for everyone, not just the Jewish people. Joseph Smith and Mohammed may have been right when they felt that Christians or denominations were an abomination. (the Christians they personally had met) but they were wrong in starting another religion. They missed the true message of the bible. That message is that true faith is not another religion whether it is Jews, Christians, Mormons or Islam. The message is that true faith is in Jesus Christ. Its not a denomination, it is Jesus who came to save us from sin. The only way to God is not in these religions but in Jesus Christ. It is an individual thing and does not depend upon an organized church or religion. I'm not saying that we should abandon going to church. We need to go to church and worship God with other believers. This we should do more and more. But our salvation depends on us as individuals accepting Jesus Christ into our lives and letting Him take away our sins and give us eternal life. This is the message Mohammed and Joseph Smith missed. Salvation does not depend on any one church, religion, place or race of people. Salvation is for all and is through Jesus Christ the Son of God.

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