Where Are You At?

Genesis 3:1-9 “Where are you at?” October 5, 2025 A.M.

I read a story this week that I wanted to share with you. The boss was puzzled about why one of his top employees was missing and hadn’t called in. Needing to solve an urgent work issue, he called the employee's home phone and a child answered with a soft, “Hello.”

“Is your Daddy home?” he asked.

“Yes,” the little voice replied.

“Can I talk to him?”

“No,” whispered the child.

Feeling a bit surprised and hoping to reach an adult, the boss asked, “Is your Mommy there?”

“Yes.”

“Can I talk to her?”

Once again, the small voice said, “No.”

Trying to find someone to leave a message with, the boss asked, “Is anyone else there?”

“Yes,” the child whispered, “a policeman.”

Wondering what a cop was doing at his employee's house, the boss asked, “Can I speak with the policeman?”

“No, he’s busy,” the child whispered back.

“Busy doing what?”

“Talking to Mommy and Daddy and the Fireman,” came the soft reply.

Feeling more anxious as he heard a loud noise on the line, the boss asked, “What’s that noise?”

“A helicopter,” the little voice answered.

“What’s happening there?” the boss asked, growing more concerned.

The child whispered again, “The search team just landed a helicopter.”

Feeling alarmed, confused, and a bit frustrated, the boss asked, “Is someone LOST, who are they searching for?”

With a muffled giggle, the young voice replied, “Me!”

Who all here likes to go to Silver Dollar City? I haven’t been to Silver Dollar City in quite a while but it hasn’t been quite long enough!!! Because back when I did go it was pretty crowded and boy you can get lost in that place. They keep expanding it. It keeps getting bigger and bigger. I used to kind of know my way around there when I was younger but now-a-days I think I would be LOST most of the time. But something I remember was MAPS. As you’re walking along there, totally LOST, you come upon a BIG MAP of the entire city. You see Grandfather’s mansion, Fire in the Hole, Wildfire and so on. But one of the most important parts of the map was a RED DOT. Do you know what that RED DOT stood for? It was YOUR CURRENT LOCATION!!! It’s where you are at STANDING RIGHT THERE. “YOU ARE HERE”

This morning I want to read out of the Book of Genesis. A familiar story of how Adam and Eve FELL. How SIN entered the world. And because of that FALL, both Spiritual and Physical DEATH came into the world.

So let’s turn in our Bibles to Genesis 3 and we’ll read Verses 1-9. “Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

8 And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.

9 And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?”

Do you know why that RED DOT is so important? You know, the one that says, “YOU ARE HERE.” Because you have to know WHERE you’re at before you can know WHERE you’re going. Let me say that again. You have to know where you’re at before you can know where you’re going.

And so that’s what I want to talk to you about this morning. “Where are you at?” When I’m finished with my message today, I PRAY that you can look at the RED DOT on the MAP of your life and say, “I AM HERE right where God wants me to be.” But before we get into the message, let’s go to the Lord in Prayer.