Does an unregenerated heart have a fear of God? Clarence Simmons explains that an unregenerated heart wants nothing to do with God. Rather than loving God, that person is a God-hater. In short, their heart is a cesspool of uncleanness. There is no spiritual understanding and no seeking after the things of God. All are inwardly corrupt and there is none that is righteous. Yet, God can overcome even the hardest of hearts. His power is supreme and no one can resist His will. Isaiah 14:27 (NKJV) – “For the Lord of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?”

A cesspool of uncleanness. That's what he sees. As one of the older writers said one time, if you open up the heart of man, what you will find there is the God of this world. And that's how we are really by nature. That inward corruption that's there, that's selfishness, self-pleasing, self-gratification.

When God looks at the human heart, you see there's none righteous, he sees no spiritual understanding, He doesn't see one seeking after the things of God, but every man pursuing his own thing, his own way. And he sees one that actually is a God-hater, not a God-lover, pleased with his own self, that's what he's looking at in the human heart. And he comes with all of his power and conquers that one, turning him from a God-hater to a God-lover overcoming him with holy power.