Faith Alive · Complete Edition

Where Are You?

The Walk From Eden to the Presence of God

"And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?" — Genesis 3:9

"And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads." — Revelation 22:4

Jesus once said, "Let the dead bury their dead" (Matthew 8:22). Follow that strange sentence and the whole Bible comes into focus: we are born physically alive but with our spirit separated from God's Spirit — the second death, which becomes eternal apart from God's mercy — and Jesus came not to improve the dead, but to give them life. "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" (John 3:3).

This sixteen-chapter book follows the first question God ever asked a human being after sin entered the world — from Adam hiding among the trees to the redeemed who see His face. Every chapter closes with five reflection questions and a prayer, so it works as a personal study or a sixteen-week small group.

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The same book and companions on the King James text, with original bracketed word studies from the Hebrew and Greek woven into the key verses — for example, "Where art thou [Hebrew ayyekah — a single word, a call that seeks rather than accuses]?" (Genesis 3:9). Every chapter adds a short Word Study. The brackets are our own study notes, not part of the inspired text, and where scholars differ the notes say so.

Contents

Introduction — The Question That Never Stopped Echoing

1. Where Art Thou? — created for His presence; the question that revealed the fall.
2. The Blind Who Want to Lead the Blind — Babel, the Pharisees, and the man born blind.
3. The Wages of Sin and the Reality of Death — the first death of the body and the second death of the spirit.
4. What Does God Accept? — Cain and Abel, strange fire, the Day of Atonement, the better sacrifice.

5. The Word Was in the Beginning — the eternal Word, the last Adam, the spotless Lamb.
6. The Blood That Opens the Way — Passover, redemption, and the torn veil.
7. Born Again — Nicodemus, water and Spirit, made alive with Christ.
8. The Father Seeks True Worshippers — the woman at the well; worship in spirit and in truth.

9. The Word That Goes Forth and Performs — Isaiah 55 and the fire in Jeremiah's bones.
10. Living Epistles — written not with ink, but by the Spirit on hearts of flesh.
11. The Anointing That Abides — the Spirit who teaches and keeps us in Christ.
12. The Oil, the Lamp, and the Bridegroom — readiness, and the oil no one can borrow.
13. Not by Might, Nor by Power — Zerubbabel's mountain and the Spirit-anointed mission.
14. The Same Spirit That Raised Jesus — Pentecost, Babel reversed, the body as His temple.

15. The Fire of His Presence — the burning bush, the shining face, the refiner's fire.
16. From Eden to the Face of God — the tabernacle of God with men; "they shall see his face."

Epilogue — Answering the Question

Questions this book answers

What does "Where art thou?" mean? God knew where Adam was; the question exposed the broken relationship and was the first act of grace after the fall.

What did Jesus mean by "let the dead bury their dead"? He called living people dead: alive in body (untouched yet by the first death) but with their spirit separated from God's Spirit — the second death.

What is the second death? The separation of our spirit from God's Spirit because of sin — present now, ended in Christ, and made eternal for those who die still rejecting Him (Revelation 20:14).

What does it mean to worship in spirit and in truth? Hearts made alive by the Spirit responding to the God revealed in Jesus Christ (John 4:23–24).