 Knowing the righteous judgment of God, knowing it, that they deserve to die, they are compelled against all reason, compelled against all knowledge, to do that which will lead to their own destruction, compelled by our flesh to do it. Absolutely a staggering testimony of the deplorable wickedness of man's heart. Unlike those who see the wrath of God poured out against sin and respond with a hatred for it, unlike those who consider the the horror that sin must be in the eyes of God to warrant such a penalty and flee to Christ to turn from it, these people know what their sin rightly deserves. That knowledge doesn't cultivate any hatred for sin, that knowledge doesn't cultivate any desire to repent from sin. With knowledge, they would rather continue to live in defiance against God and die.