The root cause of sin is the failure to fear and honor God

Romans 3 says people are spewing out venom. The speech, the wickedness, thoughts and everything, there is no Fear of God. NIV study commentary brilliantly says that the root cause of sin and evils in this world is there’s “No Fear of God.” That’s it. No Fear.
3:18 This citation from Ps. 36:1 identifies the root cause of sin as the failure to fear and honor God. Any society that commonly assumes that God will not discipline sin in this life or judge it in the next will have no fear of God and will therefore give itself increasingly to evil.
I’ll call this as the holy fear and holy honor of God. This is not fear as in terms of being frightful or being punished, although it is also part of it, but this includes having the reverence and awe of who God is. It is that sense of the awesomeness of God so captured the imagination of us that we look to him, we depend on him, we adore him, we worship him and all these are becoming very intrinsic part of us. So that matter of fearing God is very much in the positive and the negative sense. In the negative sense its the fear of being disciplined and punished for committing sin in this life, which is a good thing in itself, because it refines our character and shapes us according to the holiness of God. There is nothing better to be molded and shaped by the creator of the universe and indeed its an honor.

If God doesn’t mold you and shape you while you commit sin, that means he doesn’t care for you.

So when he does that that, it means that he cares for you and just like an earthly father will always discipline his children especially in the young age when they are over the board or breaking family or moral laws and regulations.

Romans 3:10–18 (ESV)
10 as it is written:
“None is righteous, no, not one;
11 no one understands;
no one seeks for God.
12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
no one does good,
not even one.”
13 “Their throat is an open grave;
they use their tongues to deceive.”
“The venom of asps is under their lips.”
14 “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”
15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 in their paths are ruin and misery,
17 and the way of peace they have not known.”
18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

And the reason for no fear of God is really that there is an assumption that God will not discipline our sin or judging us in the next life.

And that is the lie of the devil. Just because we don’t see God tangibly, physically in this world, a lot of people choose not to be bothered about the holiness of God and who he is. And in that why there’s a diminishing sense of the fear of God in people’s lives because of that.
And the consequences of No Fear of God in any one’s life is facing the judgment of God which means eventually we’ll be Hellfire bound.
10 as it is written:
“None is righteous, no, not one;
11 no one understands;
no one seeks for God.
12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
no one does good,
not even one.”
And anyone being naive thinking that there is some goodness in themselves and being presumptuous that “I’m good enough for God” is completely ignorant and even obnoxious. The scripture is very clear on this that in verse 10, it says none is righteous, no, not one period not a single one, and not even any perceived goodness of any person who even may be doing good deeds and helping the poor, feeding the hungry, being a responsible husband and wife.

The underlying reason is no one understands, verse 11, and no one seeks for God

We must remember that there is a huge difference between doing good but not acknowledging God, not seeking God, and doing good because of seeking and knowing and understanding God.

The former is doing for yourself, or even because of yourself, because of your perception of your inborn image of God, but failing to acknowledge and to worship the God who puts that DNA or image of God inside you. The world will spin around and go around thinking what is next unless we come to grip with the reality of who we are on earth and therefore seeking God.
John Calvin famously said unless we know who God is, we would never know who we are.
That’s a huge statement and there has to be reckoned with. In fact there’s a lot of guys who changed the world like Augustine, Martin Luther etcetera are the people who are pounding the floor and with huge effort and tears and anguish seeking who God is, because they’re so confused, so lost in their own lives, and by coming to God and coming to connection and the revelation of God, they were completely liberated and in fact empowered to embark on the journey to change the world.

And for that to happen, we need the revelation from God

nd for that to happen we need the revelation of God.

In fact Martin Luther was transformed and saved because Romans chapter 3 verse seven that says the righteousness manifested by God apart from the law, As opposed to the self achieved righteousness which exhausted him and which devastated him. Romans 1:17
17 For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last,[e] just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”

So folks there’s no way we can live a life that will bring us to eternal bliss with God until we receive the revelation and for that to happen, we must seek God we must therefore understand the word of God.