God Is Not On Trial, You Are - Tim Conway

You see what happened to Adam?

He and Eve are no longer viewing God

as though God is the One to be studied

and examined by them.

Suddenly, something's happened.

Adam - he's the one.

And you show me a man or woman

who's moving toward becoming a Christian,

I'll show you a man or woman

in whom a reversal like this takes place.

Something happens.

Suddenly, there's an awareness.

Suddenly, there's a consciousness

that we are being looked at.

God is looking at us.

God sees through us.

God knows us.

God is calling us out.

"Come out! Come out!"

Into the open.

Expose yourself.

You're hiding back there in the trees.

Come on out.

And we're the ones being called out.

Where are we?

"Where are you, Adam?"

Where are you?

This comes home.

See, this isn't just some relic

from Genesis 3 - musty and dry and dusty.

This is God speaking to every one of us.

And it happens today.

And God talks.

Where are you?

Where are you?

Adam, come out into the open.

Have you realized?

Have you realized this?

Among all the opinions and all the banter

in all the theories and all the talk,

have you ever come to the point

where you recognize that in this life

you are the one on trial?

God is not on trial.

When people make those kinds
of flippant statements about God,

they're speaking far more about themselves

than they're ever saying about God.

We are the ones on trial.

And I'll guarantee you, on judgment day,

there's no longer a
bantering about opinions,

what you believed about election.

It's "Adam, where are you?"

Where are you at?

What have you done?

Man rises up and says:

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

"God, You're on trial here

and I'm going to figure You out,

and You better answer to me."

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

"Well, there's genocide in the Bible.

God, You better explain Yourself."

Have you ever heard people talk like that?

"There's election in the Bible.

We don't like that.

God, You better answer for that.

You choosing who You want.

Who do You think You are?"

That's the way man talks.

You know that.

Sin.

How did sin come into the world

if God is sovereign,

but God is not the author of it?

You see, people want to put God on trial.

"Well, God, You better answer for that

because I can't figure it out.

And I've applied my brain to it

and it seems like it's an inconsistency

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

and so You better explain Yourself."

And that's how man is.

"God, I want an answer as to why

children get terrible diseases."

"You need to answer for that tsumani

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

But you know what happens

when God comes to a soul

and He speaks?

Adam, Eve, where are you?

Suddenly...

we thought God was the one

being dissected and analyzed.

We thought with our great brains

we were going to examine the Scriptures

and we were going to examine God

and we were going to figure it all out,

but then God's voice comes to us

and we recognize -

I just had this picture in my mind.

Sometimes we think we're
spectators in the stands.

We're kind of lost in the crowd.

We're watching the game.

We applaud or we boo.

We're the judges.

But it's almost like the
referee just spins around

and he throws his finger up into the crowd

and he says, "You."

You're no longer a spectator.

You are the one on trial.

And you can't just sit there in the crowd

like a spectator

because you have to do with God.

Where are you?

God's not asking us about our opinions.

He's interested in us.

Adam, where are you?

I'm speaking to you.

Adam, where are you?

This excerpt is from the full sermon:

Where is Adam?