​​​​GENESIS 2:7 And the lord God formed man of the dust of the ground,and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. A single by the rock group Kansas produced the 1978 single song: Dust in the wind. At that time this tune went unnoticed by me as Sir Elton John dominated my 8-track tape player. Let us ask the Holy Spirit to teach us some Spiritual wisdom on the word dust.  1 King 16:2Forasmuch as I exalted thee [Bashar] out of the dust. This Baasha was a long dead King of Israel and knowing this does not do us much spiritual good. It is God desire to exalted us Spiritually out of the dust. Genesis 2:7 And man became a living soul. What is a living soul as opposed to a dead one? A living soul must become a quickening Spirit and this done by God.  Job 33:4 The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.John 33:4And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost. At this point it is safe to say by liberty of the Holy Ghost, dust, breath are connected; fact is all the verses in the Bible are connected. Psalm 71: 20  Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and bring me up again from the depths of the earth.  Man was formed out of the dust and with he physically dies he returns to it and the soul he could have had returns to God who gave it; a soul symbolize an spiritual understanding. Because we reject the wisdom from above we are not exalted by God. Job 17:4 For thou hast hid their hearts from understanding: therefore shalt thou exalt them. ​God is never going to exalt our own interpretation of the scriptures.   Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, til thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.If God does not plant His Spirit or word in that dust or us, we are just that: dust we were taken. Once we see we are all sinners and have known nothing spiritual at all, a seed or another thought can be formed in us. Job 14:9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughts like a plant. His word or God thoughts must moisten that dust or ground, which He has placed His seed into us or the earth. Genesis 2:6  But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. God seed is His word, not as greedy preachers thoughts have made it  physical money. Job 34:15  All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust. Noticed nothing here about the man or his soul going to Hell: we are already in Hell.  King David of the Bible saw this and wrote about it: PSALM 16:10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in Hell. PSALM 86:13  For great is thy mercy toward me: And thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.  King David inspired by the Holy Ghost wrote the above while he was yet alive on this physical earth. Some time back I was an Auxiliary Firefighter for the city of Taylor Michigan.One of the question on the state examination broad test for firefighter was: What is rapid oxidation? Answer: an explosion. What is slow Oxidation? Rust! What about you are you getting a little rusty?James 5:3 Your gold and Silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. [Noticed] : as shall eat your flesh as it were fire. No physical fire here, as it were fire. The above verse speaks of what goes on in the carnal mind of man. Gold and Silver here represents man's wisdom.Proverbs 3:13-14 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom and the man that getteth understanding.14 for the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver and tthe gain thereof than fine gold. The above two verses shows God's wisdom which is a hidden treasure. No man or woman is born with any spiritual wisdom, God's wisdom has to be given or granted to us. 2 Chronicles 1:12 Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give thee riches; and wealth and honour. Man's carnal treasure or wisdom is this: Proverbs. 26:23 Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered silver dross. Silver dross is like that fake silver chain I purchased in Mexico years ago, it turned brown within weeks. Burning lips? What coming out of our own lips against God's word is what's destroys us. The heat generated by my greasy neck had started to burn the silver paint off the fake gold chain; it had revealed a chain of worthless metal. What is the wisdom coming out of our burning lips?  Then if it is not God wisdom, so where is it coming from? James 3:13 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual ,devilish.  Now Judas asked  the chief Church leaders of his time: Matthew 26:15 And said unto them, What will ye give me[Judas], and I will deliver him [JESUS]unto you? And they covenated with him for thirty pieces of silver. We all have thoughts our carnal knowledge or 30 pieces of spiritual silver; which we at one time thought they are worth more than Lord's knowledge. Once God starts to show us our carnal thoughts against His reveal word than what happens? Fire!  Hebrews 12:29 For our God is  a consuming fire.Fire in the minds of men and women who rejects God's truth for their own lie. Jeremiah 23:29Is not my word like as a fire saith the lord. God wants to burn up our fleshly thinking about his word. If we allow ourselves to be judged by His word and not by our own interpretation. God's word's brings Spiritual fire to the flesh.1 Corinthians 3:15If any man's work shall be burned [MAN'S WORKS ARE HIS THOUGHT:FAKE SILVER] he shall suffer loss: [ loss to his earthly wisdom] yet so as by fire. As by fire? Nothing of the above verse is physical. The Apostles Paul counted his earthly wisdom loss.  Philippians 3:7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. I heard of a group or Saturday door knocker that try to leave a booklet called AWAKE, not knowing there are spiritually asleep and need to awake out of man's knowledge about the Bible. 1 Corinthians 15:34Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God.Still this group of Saturday door knocker saw what King David saw in shadows [shadows is a deep subject awaiting more revelation from the Holy Spirit]that this physical earth is Hell. But this group had only that one witness on God's truth; all the others were a false witness. When we try to interpret God word without His Spirit: we are in our own witness. Jesus had the witness of God because he was God in human flesh. John 5:32There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true. King David had many natural enemy but he saw the biggest enemy was his carnal thinking about God.  Psalm 27:12 Deliver me not over unto will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.My witnesses about God's witnesses is falsehood, and false thoughts have risen up in our minds against God's word.  Pray that God delivers us from the covenant of spiritual death. Isaiah 28:15Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and will hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves. If you really love God? You will allow him to scourge you carnal temple or mind. Hebrews 12:6For whom the Lord loveth the chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.  MICHAEL RUDOLPH HODGES  9/23/2016 

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amended 2/26/2019 / 3/5/2021/ amended 5/25/2022

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