No Fear Of God

There is no fear of God before their eyes. - Romans 3:18

    The apostle, by the inspiration of God the Spirit, sumarily characterizes depraved mankind with this conclusion; They have no reverence or consideration of God. All of the foregoing charges brought against both Jew and Gentile in the previous verses, culminate in their irreverent hearts of self-justifying, self-righteous unbelief. There could be no better description of our religious generation found in all of the Scriptures: There is no fear of God before their eyes. The mass of so-called Christianity brazenly set up their self-gods without conscience or shame, and pridefully bow in adoration and worship of their own image. There is nothing more disrespectful to God and his Christ than the suggestion that man’s will is sovereign over the will and purpose of God.

    This is an affront to the very being and nature of Divinity. Those who do so in message, method, and profession indeed have no fear of God before their eyes. To ignore the person and justifying work of Jesus Christ, and to assert man’s goodness and ability, clearly reveals the epitome of irreverence. There is an unparalleled, universal, disrespect of God in our day, in every religious setting—both Arminian and Calvinistic. To enthrone our knowledge of a doctrine rather than the Christ of the doctrine is to take the things of God and say, “Look at me, see what knowledge I have acquired! Thereby, I am justified!” This too reveals an unconscionable reverence of self and an unmistakable irreverence of God. Those who fear God bow to Him, his Son, and his Gospel, as they find themselves condemned in themselves. We say as Thomas when he saw his risen Saviour, myLord and my God (Jn 20:28).