No God. It is not merely the wish of the
sinner’s corrupt nature, and the hope of his rebellious heart, but he manages
after a fashion to bring himself to assert it, and at certain seasons he thinks
that he believes it. It is a solemn reflection that some who worship God with
their lips may in their hearts be saying, no God. They are corrupt.
This refers to all men, and we have the warrant of the Holy Spirit for saying
so (Romans 3).
Where there is enmity to God, there is deep, inward depravity of mind. The
words are rendered by eminent critics in an active sense, “they have
done corruptly.” This may
serve to remind us that sin is not only in our nature passively as the source
of evil, but we ourselves actively fan the flame and corrupt ourselves, making
that blacker still which was black as darkness itself already. We rivet our own
chains by habit and continuance. They have done abominable works. When
men begin with renouncing the Most High God, who shall tell where they will
end? Observe the state of the world before the Flood, as portrayed in Genesis
6:12, and remember that human nature is unchanged. He who would see a terrible
photograph of the world without God must read Romans 1, that most painful of all
inspired Scriptures. Things loathsome to God and man are sweet to some palates.
There is none that doeth good. Sins of omission must abound where
transgressions are fife. Those who do the things which they ought not to have
done are sure to leave undone those things which they ought to have done. What
a picture of our race is this! Save only where grace reigns, there is none that
doeth good; humanity, fallen and debased, is a desert without an oasis.
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