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You see what happened to Adam?

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He and Eve are no longer viewing God

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as though God is the One to be studied

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and examined by them.

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Suddenly, something's happened.

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Adam - he's the one.

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And you show me a man or woman

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who's moving toward becoming a Christian,

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I'll show you a man or woman

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in whom a reversal like this takes place.

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Something happens.

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Suddenly, there's an awareness.

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Suddenly, there's a consciousness

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that we are being looked at.

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God is looking at us.

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God sees through us.

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God knows us.

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God is calling us out.

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"Come out! Come out!"

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Into the open.

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Expose yourself.

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You're hiding back there in the trees.

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Come on out.

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And we're the ones being called out.

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Where are we?

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"Where are you, Adam?"

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Where are you?

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This comes home.

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See, this isn't just some relic

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from Genesis 3 - musty and dry and dusty.

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This is God speaking to every one of us.

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And it happens today.

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And God talks.

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Where are you?

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Where are you?

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Adam, come out into the open.

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Have you realized?

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Have you realized this?

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Among all the opinions and all the banter

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in all the theories and all the talk,

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have you ever come to the point

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where you recognize that in this life

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you are the one on trial?

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God is not on trial.

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When people make those kinds 
of flippant statements about God,

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they're speaking far more about themselves

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than they're ever saying about God.

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We are the ones on trial.

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And I'll guarantee you, on judgment day,

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there's no longer a 
bantering about opinions,

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what you believed about election.

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It's "Adam, where are you?"

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Where are you at?

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What have you done?

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Man rises up and says:

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"My great brain is going 
to figure God out."

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"God, You're on trial here

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and I'm going to figure You out,

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and You better answer to me."

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Man, oh, man talks like that all the time.

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"Well, there's genocide in the Bible.

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God, You better explain Yourself."

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Have you ever heard people talk like that?

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"There's election in the Bible.

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We don't like that.

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God, You better answer for that.

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You choosing who You want.

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Who do You think You are?"

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That's the way man talks.

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You know that.

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Sin.

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How did sin come into the world

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if God is sovereign,

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but God is not the author of it?

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You see, people want to put God on trial.

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"Well, God, You better answer for that

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because I can't figure it out.

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And I've applied my brain to it

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and it seems like it's an inconsistency

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and if my brain thinks 
it's an inconsistency, then it is,

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and so You better explain Yourself."

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And that's how man is.

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"God, I want an answer as to why

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children get terrible diseases."

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"You need to answer for that tsumani

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(or that earthquake or that 
hurricane or that tornado).

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But you know what happens

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when God comes to a soul

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and He speaks?

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Adam, Eve, where are you?

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Suddenly...

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we thought God was the one

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being dissected and analyzed.

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We thought with our great brains

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we were going to examine the Scriptures

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and we were going to examine God

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and we were going to figure it all out,

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but then God's voice comes to us

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and we recognize -

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I just had this picture in my mind.

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Sometimes we think we're 
spectators in the stands.

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We're kind of lost in the crowd.

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We're watching the game.

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We applaud or we boo.

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We're the judges.

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But it's almost like the 
referee just spins around

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and he throws his finger up into the crowd

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and he says, "You."

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You're no longer a spectator.

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You are the one on trial.

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And you can't just sit there in the crowd

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like a spectator

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because you have to do with God.

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Where are you?

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God's not asking us about our opinions.

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He's interested in us.

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Adam, where are you?

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I'm speaking to you.

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Adam, where are you?

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This excerpt is from the full sermon:

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Where is Adam?