Only fools say in their hearts,What’s funny about this scripture is that it is not talking about atheists, it is talking about those who come to church, maybe even get into leadership, teach classes, get on the board, and yet never really acknowledge God in their lives.
“There is no God.”
They are corrupt, and their actions are evil;
not one of them does good! (Psalm 14:1)
On top, they profess him as God. But down in their hearts they don’t. down in their hearts, they have never really been converted to the grace of God.
They are the same people Jesus was talking about in Matthew 14:3. He told a story about a farmer who went out to sow seed. The seed fell on the sidewalk, rocky ground, among thorns and on good ground. The sidewalk seeds did nothing. Seeds on the thorny ground got choked out. Seeds on the rocky ground never got a decent root structure and one day just died. The good ground helped those seeds to grow and was fine.
The people Psalm 14 talk about are the ones that fall on rocky ground. The root structure can’t really go anywhere because when it comes down to it, the person really doesn’t care. He might think he does and even delude himself into thinking that he is really doing the will of God from his heart, but the first real problem, he is gone.
That is why people can be in church so long and then one day be gone. They might leave the area for another job and never get around to going to church. They might find another woman and leave their families behind and never go back to church. They might just get tired or get their feelings hurt or something. And they just stop.
They don’t believe from the heart and because of that they die. They become corrupt and have evil actions and never do any real good ever again.
They are sad to look at. They did stuff that maybe was great at one time, but fall by the wayside by their own choices.
And like Hebrews 6:4-6 says:
For it is impossible to bring back to repentance those who were once enlightened — those who have experienced the good things of heaven and shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the power of the age to come — and who then turn away from God. It is impossible to bring such people back to repentance; by rejecting the Son of God, they themselves are nailing him to the cross once again and holding him up to public shame.To come back, they have to come back to that which they had left. In other words, the rejected it once and now have to recover the love they turned from. And that is almost impossible.
Of course, as Jesus said in Matthew 19:26
Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But with God everything is possible.God can bring them back, but you see it so rarely. And it is a shame.
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