In the sermon titled 'Forming The Man Made Of Dust', Jason Dohm explores Genesis 2:4-7, emphasizing that Genesis is fundamentally a book about God and His revelation to mankind. He discusses the Hebrew word 'Toledoth', translated as 'family history', which signals new sections in Genesis, focusing on the lineage from Adam to Jesus. The sermon highlights the distinction between 'created' and 'made', reaffirming God as both Creator and Maker. Dohm explains the various names of God, such as Elohim and Jehovah, underscoring His self-existence and divine nature. The sermon also revisits the creation account, stressing that humans are made from dust and given life through God's breath. It draws a comparison between Adam, the first man made of dust, and Jesus, the life-giving spirit, encouraging believers to transition from the physical race of Adam to the spiritual race under Christ. The sermon concludes with applications, urging listeners to balance the privilege of being God's image-bearers with the humility of being made from dust and to reject the myth of evolution.

The title of the sermon this morning is, Forming the Man Made of Dust. It's essentially just taking words right from the text. We have the man made from dust. Let's go back where we started in our study of Genesis. This is the book about God.

So it tells us all sorts of things about man and the earth and the other creatures, things in the universe. So it is a book of truth, but more fundamentally than anything else. It's the book about God It's the book from God Where do we get this revelation? We got it from the all-knowing God so it's pretty good source And it's the book about God. So, it's from him, it's about him.

God is revealing himself to mankind. Who is God? This is the book that tells us who God is. And God is revealing truth to mankind. How do you know what is actually real?

What defines reality? Sometimes our senses actually don't tell us the truth. Sometimes you actually can't trust your eyes and your ears. You find out later what you thought you saw wasn't true, what you thought you heard wasn't true. And so there's something much more reliable in our senses and that is the testimony of the all-knowing God.

So everything we will study in Genesis and outside of Genesis is in that framework. This is God's revelation about himself and about truth. It's from him and it's about him and in today's text is within that framework. This is from God and it's about God and about us. It's truth about God and us.

Okay, structure. Chapter one gave us a high level view of creation week. If you think about the creation of all that it is and what happened on each day. Each day has a thousand different things that we'd like to know, could be known, but aren't revealed to us. It's not a stretch at all to call it a high level of summary.

It's certainly the highest level of summary that the creation of all the universe fits on one page of your Bible. In chapter two, we circle back and get a fuller picture of certain things that we got a summary of in chapter 1 so that is what is starting to happen here in chapter 2 the author Moses is circling back to the beginning again and then filling in some things about what we got the high level summary of in chapter one. In the immediate instance, it is God's creation of his image bearer, singular, he's going to make a man, and then also in chapter two then of his image bearers, man created as male and female. We're going to get this second person created. Adam will be created and then Eve will be created.

Let's pray. God, here we are in your Word again. How good it is, how encouraging it is to have a perfect standard of truth to build a message upon, to build our thinking upon, to build our lives upon. Thank you for the revelation that we have in the Bible Center labs. Pray that you would cause this to be a time that is so encouraging to us and that builds us up in the faith in Jesus name.

Amen. So we're going to subdivide but not evenly at all. We're going to take four, five, and six as a block and then seven by itself. So there's really only one subdivision this week. Hopefully your Bibles are still open to Genesis chapter two.

Follow along as I reread verses 4 through 6. Genesis 2, starting in verse 4. This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. But the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground. But a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.

Here in verses four through six, our author Moses is rewinding back to the beginning. I'll have to explain rewinding to our children. Children, we used to have videotapes for what we watched, and we used to have cassettes for what we listened to. And when you got to the end of it, or if you wanted to go back to an earlier song, there was a button that you pushed that rewinded you back to the beginning. So you would actually hear it and see it spinning to take it back to the beginning.

That is in essence what our author Moses is doing. He's taken us through a sequence day one of creation week, day two, day three, day four, day five, day six, day seven when God rested. Now he's rewinding and taking us back to the very beginning. Let's start by looking at some of the individual words. So as I start to explain verses four through six, I want to zero in on a couple of just isolate a couple of words and talk about them.

In verse four, we have the word history. This is the history of the heavens and earth when they were created. That Hebrew word, at least the transliteration of it, I could never say it in Hebrew, but the transliteration of it is toledoph, and it might more fully be translated family history. So this is the history of the heavens and the earth. As we work through Genesis, we're going to keep encountering this word.

And it's really most fully translated, family history. The Hebrew lexicon says, account of men and their descendants. So history is not a bad translation at all, but really is a family history. That's why the King James version and the English Standard version, the KJV and the ESV translated generations. This is the generations or the family history or the account of men and their descendants.

And this is a very consequential word throughout Genesis because it very often signals a new section. So time after time as we work through Genesis we're gonna see a new section is actually started by this word the family history of somebody. Normally it's a new family's history. It's a new branch on the family tree. Ultimately Genesis starts with Adam and Eve And it traces a specific line of descendants.

So if you look at a family tree, you have the first descendants. That's Adam and Eve. And as the tree grows upward, you have different branches branching off from that stem and That's going to happen in the genealogies as we work through Genesis We'll see other branches branching off, but Genesis is going to hang close to one line So There will be all sorts of branches branching off and we will see that as we work through the genealogies. But Genesis hugs to, stays close to this one line, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. So it will be from Adam and Eve through these descendants.

It will end up right at the time where we have Abraham. We'll probably leave Genesis at that point actually, but that's what Genesis is. And then as you continue through the Old Testament eventually you'll end up in first Samuel and baby's gonna be born his name will be David and he's going to be a king and he's going to be that it's this family line out of Abraham Isaac and Jacob then there will be a descendant David He'll become a king and he'll become a line of kings. And eventually this will end up in Jesus, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. This is the start of what the Bible is all about.

It's a family history, but not about all the branches, about one branch that's going to take us to the Lord Jesus Christ. So when you go to Luke chapter three and you look at the family history, the genealogy in Luke chapter three, Luke actually traces Jesus's family history, his family line, his family tree, all the way back to Adam. And Not all the genealogies of Jesus does that, but that one does. Luke traces it all the way back to Adam. Jesus is the point of the whole Bible, and we're right here at the starting point of that, Adam and Eve.

Here are some of the places where the word tolodoth or family history initiates a new section. Chapter 5 verse 1. This is the book of the genealogy or the tolodoth of Adam. Chapter 6 verse 9. This is the genealogy or tolodoth of Noah.

Chapter 10 verse 1. Now this is the genealogy of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And then it will be their family trees will be, their branches will be traced out for a bit in that genealogy. Chapter 11 verse 10 this is the genealogy of Shem chapter 11 27 this is the genealogy or toledoth of Terah. Terah is the father of Abraham and then zero right in on this one family, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

There are actually four more sections which begin with this is the generation of the Toledoth of. So it's all, I just want you to know it's all throughout Genesis and this word, toledoth or family history initiates new sections of Genesis. So it's really a marker starting a new section and it's about the family history and the reason it's about the family history is the Bible is taking us to Jesus. That's the whole reason. Another word, Lord, all caps.

We haven't seen it yet. We're seeing it here in verse something in our text. Lord, all caps. Capital L, capital O, capital R, capital D. It's in all caps just to set it off that it is the translation of a single Hebrew word.

Other words in our alphabet that we would be familiar with would be Jehovah whenever you hear someone say Jehovah they're talking about this Hebrew word or if you hear them say Yahweh they're talking about this Hebrew word This Hebrew word literally means the existing one. So everyone's existence, everything's existence can be traced back to God. God's existence can't be traced back to anything but Himself. That makes Him fundamentally different than us in every way. He is simply the existing one.

If you started calling yourself the existing one, we would say, you have lost your mind. You owe your existence to your mom and dad, but ultimately to God. There's a whole line of people that you come from. You aren't the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end of anything. You're right in the middle of everything.

You take your existence from a thousand different things. God takes his existence from himself. This is a name that sets him off in that way. He is the existing one. The one who is self existing, Meaning that he needs nothing outside of himself.

If you don't drink water, you're dead in three days, maybe four. If you don't eat food, You're dead probably after day 43 and before day 70. Okay, this is how long the longest hunger strikes go before you die. Thank you, Google. God doesn't need water at all.

God doesn't need food at all. He can go from eternity past through eternity future without drinking or eating. You're dead in three days or 43 to 70 days. You're dead outside of the most narrow temperature range. God doesn't depend on temperature.

You'll get too hot and die. You'll get too cold and die. I'm just pointing out, we have all these limitations. God doesn't have a single one of them. He exists in himself.

There's nothing outside of himself that determines his existence. All of it's within himself and it's all eternal. It has no beginning and it has no end. Explain that to me. I can't.

That's just what the Bible teaches. I don't know exactly what that means. I just know that the Bible declares it and it's true. In chapter one, the word for God always used was Elohim. We're just reading capital G-O-D.

That's what we're reading all through chapter one. But the Hebrew word, the transliteration of the Hebrew word all through chapter one, no exceptions. It's what's always used when we see God. The Hebrew word behind it was always Elohim or roughly divine one. So not human, divine.

Not human. There's no one like him. He is as divine, he's transcendent. He transcends, goes beyond all that humans are. So everything that humans are, he's beyond that in every single category.

There's no one like him. He's something else altogether. He's other. Now these two names for God, Elohim or the divine one, is brought together with Jehovah or Yahweh, the existing one, and we see here the Lord God both words together Jehovah Elohim the self-existing divine one So if you haven't gotten the picture, one word is not enough to describe this God. One sentence, one paragraph, one page, one book is not enough.

So he's starting to add in this self-revelation of God, he's starting to add revelation because one word obviously doesn't capture this God. This new self-revelation of God, who is he? He's telling us, why is he telling us? Because he wants us to know. This is the whole purpose behind the self-revelation of God, that we would know him.

He wants to be known. He is revealing himself to us. This word, Lord, all caps, Jehovah, Yahweh, is more fully set forth in Exodus chapter 3. So please turn to Exodus chapter 3. I'm going to run this down, get a fuller explanation of this word, Lord in all caps, or Jehovah or Yahweh.

We see it more fully explained in Exodus chapter 3. This is the burning bush passage. It's wonderful. But you should turn there because I'm going to read a long section. I'm going to read Exodus 3 verses 1 through 15 so it'll help you to track with it if you're reading along.

Exodus chapter 3 verses 1 through 15. Exodus 3, starting in verse 1. Now, Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back of the desert and came to Horeb the mountain of God and the angel of the Lord hears that word Lord all caps Yahweh Jehovah appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. So he looked and behold the bush was burning with fire but the bush was not consumed.

Then Moses said, I will now turn aside and see this great sight why the bush does not burn So when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look God called to him from the midst of the bush and said Moses Moses, and he said here. I am Then he said do not draw near this place Take your sandals off your feet for the place where you stand is holy ground. Moreover, he said, I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Moses hid his face for he was afraid to look upon God and the Lord Lord all caps this word said I have surely seen the oppression of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.

Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppressed them. Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people the children of Israel out of Egypt." But Moses said to God, who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt? So he said, I will certainly be with you and this shall be a sign to you that I have sent you. When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain. Then Moses said to God, Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, the God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they say to me, what is his name?

What shall I say to them? God said to Moses, I am who I am. And he said, Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, I am has sent me to you. Moreover, God said to Moses, Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob has sent me to you. This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.

So here in this last verse, you have the combination of names, the Lord God, Jehovah Elohim, God says, this is my name forever. This is the name by which I ought to be known. This is the name by which you should tell the children of Israel that I am sending you. I am has sent you. The burning bush is actually perfect.

It is a fire that never consumes itself. It is this God who is a consuming fire and yet he is never consumed. No matter how much strength he exerts, his strength is never diminished. This is the God who is revealing himself in scriptures. Imagine that.

He's a consuming fire. That's what the Old Testament says of him. Only he's never consumed. He is an almighty God who exerts the power of creation week. And yet his power wasn't diminished at all.

He ended the week with as much power as he started the week with. He has all power and it wasn't diminished at all when he created the universe in six days. He's a consuming fire that is never consumed. He says, I am. I exist.

So everything else has its existence because I'm the root of it. I'm the self-existent God. Back to our text. So verse four, this is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. We have rewound here and we're back at the beginning.

Now, especially the more modern commentators, I'm reading a mix of the old dead guys and a lot of guys who are teaching at seminaries today. I'm reading a mix of them. I wish I could just read the old dead guys, but I think I should read some of the newer ones, see what they're saying. Especially the more modern commentators spill a lot of ink on verses five and six. No plants on the earth, God hadn't caused it yet to rain, no man to till the ground, but a mist went up from the earth to water all of it." When I say they spill a lot of ink, I mean they write page after page about what every jot and tittle of those verses means.

And sometimes the minutiae, looking at the smallest details is very important because you really can't mine what the author is trying to communicate without looking at the smallest details. So sometimes they're very important, like I believe with Toledoth and Lord. So we went into minutiae. We looked at the little details of that because I think they carry the meaning of what is actually being communicated by Moses in these verses. They're minutiae with meaning, and without the minutiae you really don't get the fullness of the meaning of the author.

But sometimes You can make more out of the minutiae than the author intended and make a big thing about a tiny detail when the author wasn't doing that at all and I think that's what's happened in this instance. The old dead guys don't do nearly that much of that in these three verses than the modern commentators do. My view is that there is a simple overriding purpose for the author Moses and that is to take us back to the beginning unmistakably he's breaking the sequence. Okay so we we had it was so clearly all in sequence down to the naming of the days. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, that is all about sequence.

And now the author, because we've been so carefully going in sequence, the author is unmistakably saying, I'm breaking the sequence, we're going back to the beginning. And setting the stage for a more detailed account of the creation of the first man and then the first woman and to begin to give their history in the garden that God placed in them. So in my preaching of this, I am not going into the minutiae of those three verses. But we do have the two words here that were both repeated over and over in chapter one, since they were repeated over and over in chapter one and they appear here, I think it's worth commenting on. The two words are created and made.

So two Hebrew words translated created and made we saw them both repeated over and over in chapter one and this is the reaffirmation in our text that God was the acting one. God was and is the creator and maker. So that's totally reaffirmed here in this verse in this section of the text. Chapter 1, if it was about anything, it was about the fact that God himself is the one who is acting. It is God who is the creator, God who is the maker, and this is being reaffirmed here, period, amen.

God is creator and maker, period, amen. So here we are back at the beginning, before day three of creation, when, before day three of creation week when God created plant life, it was before that, and there was no man to cultivate plant life. And we do get this detail and it's startling to us because we have no frame of reference for it in our experience. It didn't rain on earth during this period of time. So you've never lived in a time like this.

You know, we've had droughts, we've had dry spells, but we haven't lived on planet Earth during a period of time where it doesn't rain on planet Earth. So, this is startling to us because we don't have a frame of reference for it in our own experience. When that changed, whenever it was, it was because God caused it to rain. So this was before God caused it to rain on earth. At some point, and we don't know exactly when, that changed.

Why did it change? Because God did cause it to rain on the earth God causes rain but God hadn't caused it to rain yet and he had another way of watering the earth A mist came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the earth. Next week in verses 10 through 14, we're going to learn about rivers. So this was a period of time where there actually are God had given the earth rivers had put rivers on the earth. We'll be learning about them next week.

And so right now, during the time being described, God is watering the earth through a mist that comes up from the earth and from these rivers that he had put on the earth. I think the key takeaway for us is the realization that things were different in some fundamental ways before sin came into the world. This is a marker, it's a pointer that things were different then before sin came into the world than they are now long after sin has come into the world. This is a cue, a pointer that we shouldn't imagine that Adam and Eve came into the world as we know it. They didn't.

They came into the world that was good before corruption was brought into the world by mankind's sin. For instance, rain is good, but the people in western North Carolina will tell you that it isn't always good and it isn't only good. Go out to Western North Carolina and ask them about rain right now. Probably get an earful. It also has the potential for destruction but this is a world without destruction.

Sins not in the world yet. Deaths not in the world yet. Sickness isn't in the world yet. Flooding isn't in the world yet. As it's being described in our text, the world is good and on its way to very good at the end of Creation Week when the whole system is viewed together, it goes from every individual part of it being good to the system, how it works together being very good.

And so at this time, everything receives the water it needs from a gentle mist and from the rivers that God had put on the earth. It's different than it is now. Verse 7. Our final verse, Genesis 2 verse 7. And the Lord God, there's that combination again, and the Lord God, Jehovah Elohim, formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being." In this verse we get more on the forming and enlivening of the first man.

So if you're taking notes on the handout and filling in the blanks on the handout, forming and enlivening fill in those two blanks. More on the forming and enlivening of the first man. This fills out the history of the creation of mankind from chapter 1. We got the high level summary of it in chapter one. Now we're getting a filling out of that history of the creation of mankind here in chapter two.

It makes it fuller. It makes it more comprehensive. It tells us more about ourselves. That's good. You want to know more about yourself?

Well, very important things were taught you about yourself in chapter one, but it's not the full complete picture. There's more you need to know about yourself. Here's some more about yourself in chapter two. Thank you God for giving us truth. This word formed, the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground is the word the Old Testament uses for the work of the potter.

So if you just trace this word through the Old Testament, you find it used when a potter is going to work on something. This is that word. Mankind was formed like a potter goes to work on the play. God took the dust of the ground and He formed it like a potter goes to work on the clay Now this is the picture we got in chapter 1. Just look back to our recitation text chapter 1 verse 26 Then God said let us make man in our image according to our likeness Let them have dominion We learned that about ourselves in chapter one.

We're made in the image of God, according to the likeness of God, and we're given dominion. Look at verse 27 into 28. So God created man in his own image in the image of God. He created him male and female he created them Then God blessed them So we are image bearers of The great creator God that's what we learned in chapter 1 you bear the image of the great creator God Amazing what a privilege We are made in his image according to his likeness. We have been given dominion It's actually been given authority over the rest of his creation in his name under his authority.

We have been blessed by God and given a great mission to subdue the earth, but..." What would you think of yourself if that was all the revelation you had of mankind? Made in the image of God, given dominion, blessed by God. True, all true, but also chapter 2. But we are also formed of the dust of the ground, and the only thing that brings that dust of life is the life-giving breath of God. You ought to join this with that.

It will help you think better, think more realistically about yourself. Turn over to Genesis 3 and look at this portion of the curse that God pronounced when Adam and Eve sinned and broke the one command not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Look at chapter 3 verse 19. God is pronouncing the curse after sin. Chapter 3 19, in the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground for out of it you were taken for dust you are and to dust you shall return." So if there had been no sin there would be no death but now that there is sin there will be death and you're made out of dust and when you die that's exactly actually what's going to happen to your bodies, to our bodies.

They're going to return to its component material. What is that? Dust. Give it enough time and this tent, as Peter describes it, this shell will be back to its component material. Give it enough time.

You'll be back to dust. You were formed out of dust. That's what you're made out of. You'll be back to dust. Just dust.

The wages of sin is death. We were born with corrupt natures. We lived out of that corrupt natures. We were enemies of God and then were given opportunities so we proved it. So all your sins are is just proof what you're like.

The pay for that is death. You're formed from dust, you'll return to dust. In fact, the Hebrew word translated man, the transliteration is Adam. When you look at a Hebrew transliteration of this text, when you get to man, you see the word Adam, A-D-A-M, just like Adam and Eve. And the transliteration of the Hebrew word translated ground, the transliteration is Adamah, Adam with an A-H at the end.

It's out of the exact same word group. You're the ground man. You're the ground man. You're the dust man. Adam made out of the dust of the ground.

Man made out of the dust of the ground. Adam made out of the dust of the Adamah. They actually both have a root in red like clay. So we're from North Carolina, we get it. I listened to Psalm 103 verses 13 and 14.

This is more on man made out of the dust. Psalm 103, my favorite Psalm. Don't ever forget. Psalm 103 verses 13 and 14. As a father pities his children, so the Lord pities those who fear him.

For he knows our frame, he remembers that we are dust." Psalm 103 is describing the compassion of God. What is one of the foundation stones or what is the root of the compassion of God, part of the root of the compassion of God? He remembers they're only dust. They're only dust. And so he has compassion on us because he knows our frame.

He knows what we're made out of. It's just dust. And so he makes accommodation for our weaknesses if you fear him because he remembers you just made out of dust so we are his image bearers and that is wonderful. It is a great privilege but don't get it twisted. To put it in the modern vernacular, God knows we're not all that.

Question is, do we know we're not all that? You could lose sight. You just dust. You probably heard the joke about dogs and cats. The dog looks at his master and says, you love me, you care for me, you pet me, you feed me, you must be God.

The cat looks at his master and says, you love me, you care for me, You pet me, you feed me, I must be God. So yes, we are made in the image of God and that is a great privilege and that makes us remarkable But only God is God. In the image of God is not God. It is a reflection. And the more you live in this world, the more you find out, well, it is a pale reflection of who God really is.

We are made in the image of God to serve God. Why do you bear his image? To serve him and to have fellowship with God. You have an ability to know Him and to walk with Him and to be near Him and to experience Him in the way that no other creation can. He made you to have fellowship with Him.

That's why you bear the image of God so you can have fellowship with Him, to bring honor to him by reflecting his image in the world, nothing more. There's nothing else behind him making us. We could serve him, have fellowship with him, bring honor to him by reflecting his image in the world, there's nothing else. What is the chief end of man? To glorify God and enjoy him forever.

That's for Jim and Tracy, our catechism leaders. What is the chief end of man? Is to glorify God and enjoy him forever. That's why we bear the image of God. Friends, brothers and sisters, the only thing that makes us different than the dust that we're formed from is the life-giving breath of God.

That's it. It's God. It's all of God. Without that we're just dust. Here's what Matthew Henry says.

The Workmanship exceeded the materials. The workmanship did exceed the materials. The materials are just dust, okay? To what do we owe this miraculous creation to the workmanship? It's God.

He ought to have the praise of any capabilities, any gifts, any good things that we find ourselves. He ought to have the praise. You're just dust. He breathed life into you. Every breath that you've ever taken has been a gift from Him, whether you knew it or not.

You didn't need to know it for it to be a gift. Let's conclude with Paul's commentary on Adam and how this fits with Jesus. First Corinthians 15. Turn to First Corinthians 15. We'll end here.

First Corinthians 15 verses 45 through 47. 1st Corinthians 15, 45 through 47. Follow along. Here's what Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 15, starting in verse 45. And so it is written, here's a quote from our text.

And so it is written in Genesis 2-7, so it is written, the first man became a living being. The first man, Adam, became a living being. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. So here Jesus Christ is being called the last Adam. So we're studying the first Adam.

God made him a living being by breathing the breath of life into him, but Jesus Christ became a life-giving spirit. However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural and afterward the spiritual. The first man was the man of earth made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven. This is a comparison and a contrast of Adam, the head of our natural physical race.

The trace, our natural physical race up to the first person ever you get to Adam is made of the dust. But the Bible is pleading with us to change races, To take a new head of race and to have it be the Lord Jesus Christ by trusting in him change races From a physical race headed by Adam to a spiritual race headed by Jesus Christ Adam was the original head of our race, our physical race, the human race. He was the man of dust. He sinned, fundamentally corrupted our nature, plunged our race into condemnation. So you're born under condemnation and returned to dust.

Where's Adam's body now? Dust. But Jesus Christ, the second Adam, is the Lord from heaven And he is a life-giving spirit. He'll give life to you today if you'll repent and trust Him. Stop trusting in everything else.

Everything else. Put all your eggs in one basket. Trust Him. The New Testament says He saves to the uttermost all who come to Him by faith. Meaning He doesn't leave one particle unsaved, one matter undelt with.

But he saves every particle and settles every matter. He saves to the utter most. He completely settles the account of all who come to him by faith. Applications. Let me give you three.

Number one, we should hold the privilege of being image bearers with the truth that we are all made of dust. So Don't turn loose of either one. It is a privilege to be an image bearer. It's amazing, all true. That's true even of unbelievers.

Image bearers of God with some amazing things about them. It's disorienting sometimes. A believer can be like that. I mean, they still bear the image of God. There's some amazing things about that.

Even in the lives of unbelievers, amazing things. Then, along with all the corruption, too. Hold that, love that, feel the privilege of that, but also hold it with the truth that we're made of dust. This is all of God. You're only dust when we die.

Our bodies will return to dust. And our spirits will return to God. That's what we need to be thinking about. But this is all of God. One, we should hold the privilege of being image bearers with the truth that we are all are made of dust.

You know a hyper focus on either one of those is so damaging. Oh I'm only dust. I'm nothing. Woe is me. With nothing to counterbalance it is not what where scripture points us or thinking I'm the image of God.

I've been given dominion. I'm under the blessing of God without anything to counterbalance the balance, that is a mess. Hold these things together. Number two, evolution is the myth. Evolution is the myth.

There are no transitional states. God formed man out of the dust, not out of anything else. Hey, something's got to be the myth here. Something's got to be the myth here. Evolution is the myth.

This is how we were made. And if what evolutionists are saying is true, It undercuts so many foundation stones of the gospel. Ken Ham makes this point over and over and over again. You think you can give up this ground and keep the gospel? No, no, no.

You're eroding the foundation of the gospel. Number three. I'll Leave it to Matthew Henry. I really do read other commentaries. He's just the most quotable.

You're hearing lots of information that I've read, but it was common enough that I didn't need to attribute it to a specific commentator. Matthew Henry's just so quotable. All right, Matthew Henry says this, to God that gave these souls, we must shortly give an account of them. So we're talking about the breath of life, taking dust and making it alive. To God that gave these souls, we must shortly give an account of them how we have employed them use them Proportion them and disposed of them What did you do with the soul God?

Gave you life took you from dust and made that dust a person. Now what? You give an account. And if it be found that we have lost them, though it were to game the world, we shall be undone forever. So he's going to the Gospels and Jesus saying, what will it profit a man to gain the whole world yet lose his soul?

Life is so short, eternity is so long. Even if you gain the whole world, every one of your objectives you achieved, but you lost your soul. Jesus says you fool. You fool. You traded your soul for this little world.

You traded your soul for this short life. Let's pray. God thank you for this text. Thank you for bringing us to these truths, for revealing yourself to us and so much more. I pray that you would use it for our encouragement and help.

In Jesus name, Amen.