Psalm 14 and 15

September 8,  2016

The Psalms are many thing ! They are God's word, they are songs, they are the thoughts and feelings of the psalmist, they are a history of David, They are an open communication between God and man, and as we will see in these two psalms ( and many more ) they are prophetic. The first line of this psalm is very famous, " The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God. " This psalm talks about the sin and corruption in the world in David's time and is also talking about the last days before the great tribulation comes !  In all of this sin and corruption man turns totally against God !  The end of this psalm is a prayer for salvation for the world from David and from the remnant that God will have before the great tribulation.

Psalm 15 talks about what will it take to be upright and to be with God. God's answer is much like when He gave the Law to the Jews. He told them what to do, not to have them do it, but to show them that without God they would NEVER be saved ! Today we are saved by grace and not by the law. We know that we can never keep the law. Only one man kept the law ... Jesus. Today we have the Holy Spirit to indwell us and to lead us. The list that God gives sounds easy. Let me ask you a question... If I were God and I gave you ONE command to get to Heaven... Never tell a lie.... could you do it ? Of course not ! Yet God gave them hundreds of laws and here He lists a few... and they will never be able to do them. However they are to blind, much as the unsaved are today to see that they can not keep any of them !!!