WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.940 Thank you, Fess. So, you may know me as Philip Jewell. Some of these, all these guys up here know me as Snowball. 00:00:07.339 --> 00:00:22.199 ! Whichever name you know me by is how you want to do it. You know, maybe you would say, okay, well, I could identify myself as a Christ follower, a husband, a father, a son, a church member, whatever it may be, but that's not who I am. 00:00:22.199 --> 00:00:33.320 I can go to the scriptures I can find, and maybe you've asked the same question, who am I really? The truth is, our identity isn't something that we have to build on, like Fezzik was speaking about, have to guess at. 00:00:33.519 --> 00:00:38.920 It's not something that we even have to earn. It's something that we have to navigate our way back to. 00:00:39.120 --> 00:00:49.519 See, the Bible tells us, and you see the verse up here behind me, that in him we live and move and have our being, as even some of your own poets have said, for we are indeed his offspring. 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:58.240 Paul went into Greece here, and he's preaching along, and he says, hey, your poets have said this, that in him we do these things. 00:00:58.440 --> 00:00:59.080 We live in that. 00:00:59.359 --> 00:01:07.920 And so, if you went back, that says Acts 17, 28, if you were to go to 26 and 27, in 26 you would find this word, that we are to inhabit the earth. 00:01:08.240 --> 00:01:11.480 In 27 you would see that we are to seek God. 00:01:11.859 --> 00:01:12.879 So, that's who we are, right? 00:01:12.879 --> 00:01:19.000 We're supposed to be these, these inhabiters that seek God, that in him we find life. 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:26.939 Well, if you were going to take notes for sermons or anything like that, the first thing I would say is that you, I, we were created in God's image. 00:01:27.479 --> 00:01:28.039 Don't believe me? 00:01:28.119 --> 00:01:28.859 Let's look in Genesis. 00:01:29.399 --> 00:01:34.879 Genesis 1, 27 says, so God created man in his own image, and in the image of God he created him. 00:01:35.219 --> 00:01:36.899 Male and female he created him. 00:01:37.920 --> 00:01:40.519 We are created in God's image. 00:01:40.519 --> 00:01:44.560 It's the foundational step of Christianity. 00:01:45.719 --> 00:01:50.939 Understanding where you came from and how we can get back to where we came from. 00:01:51.899 --> 00:01:55.539 You matter because you were made in the image of the one who matters most. 00:01:56.359 --> 00:01:58.000 Here's the second thing I would take notes on. 00:01:58.399 --> 00:01:59.560 Don't let the world name you. 00:02:00.239 --> 00:02:07.039 Whatever the name is that you've got, whatever that title is, however the town perceives you, don't let the world name you. 00:02:07.040 --> 00:02:13.920 Romans 12, 2 says, do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. 00:02:14.460 --> 00:02:24.819 If you flip a little bit to 1 Peter 2, 9, you'd find, but you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession. 00:02:24.819 --> 00:02:33.780 The charge from this, live to receive your identity from the one and only one who never changes. 00:02:34.579 --> 00:02:35.780 So we're created in him. 00:02:36.919 --> 00:02:41.340 We're not going to let the world name us because we can receive the identity that God has given us. 00:02:42.120 --> 00:02:47.259 The third thing I would say, if you're going to take notes, would be to receive our new identity in Christ. 00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:48.799 You become a new creation. 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:52.959 When you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you become that new creation. 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:56.080 And in 2 Corinthians 5, 17, we would find this. 00:02:56.420 --> 00:02:59.580 If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. 00:02:59.700 --> 00:03:01.540 The old has passed away. 00:03:01.920 --> 00:03:04.300 Behold, the new has come. 00:03:04.920 --> 00:03:07.980 See, when we put our faith in Jesus, it's not a religion. 00:03:08.520 --> 00:03:09.500 It's not a performance. 00:03:10.460 --> 00:03:12.520 But in him, we are made new. 00:03:14.740 --> 00:03:16.700 Christ defines you. 00:03:17.740 --> 00:03:19.240 Galatians 2, 20 echoes this. 00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:23.659 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. 00:03:24.180 --> 00:03:27.680 So if you're in Christ, then your identity is secure. 00:03:29.020 --> 00:03:31.700 You are who God says you are. 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:33.300 So who am I? 00:03:33.980 --> 00:03:35.879 Well, the Bible tells me I am loved. 00:03:36.960 --> 00:03:38.439 The Bible tells me I am forgiven. 00:03:39.460 --> 00:03:40.820 The Bible tells me I am free. 00:03:41.980 --> 00:03:42.920 It tells me I am chosen. 00:03:43.860 --> 00:03:45.320 It tells me I'm a child of God. 00:03:45.319 --> 00:03:48.099 And that I am God's workmanship. 00:03:49.060 --> 00:03:51.000 And it tells me that I'm never alone. 00:03:51.959 --> 00:03:57.139 It also tells me over in Acts 1, verse 8. 00:03:57.599 --> 00:04:01.759 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:07.079 And you will be my witness in Jerusalem, in all of Judea, and in Samaria. 00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:09.959 And to the end of the earth. 00:04:10.859 --> 00:04:11.519 So who am I? 00:04:12.240 --> 00:04:16.540 Well, if you're already in Christ, live like it. 00:04:18.680 --> 00:04:20.120 Live like Jesus is in you. 00:04:21.340 --> 00:04:23.199 Walk in confidence, not in security. 00:04:23.720 --> 00:04:25.819 Live with purpose, not pressure. 00:04:26.500 --> 00:04:30.639 Let your identity shape your actions and not the other way around. 00:04:31.519 --> 00:04:34.019 If you're not in Christ yet, you can be. 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:37.220 Preacher Daniel is going to give an invitation here in a little while. 00:04:37.220 --> 00:04:39.720 And Jesus invites you into that new life. 00:04:39.780 --> 00:04:43.780 And you can come down and talk to Daniel about what those steps are to get to that. 00:04:44.580 --> 00:04:50.700 When we receive Jesus Christ, we have a charge in our life, an obligation in our life to go out and tell the world. 00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:54.100 To go share what we know with those that we meet. 00:04:54.780 --> 00:05:02.120 That may be right across the bedroom to the one we love, the one we call spouse, or the one we call son or daughter. 00:05:02.500 --> 00:05:04.060 To share the gospel with them. 00:05:04.060 --> 00:05:06.720 It may be to our neighbors across the road. 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:08.920 It may be to your teammates on your team. 00:05:09.139 --> 00:05:11.139 Or to a classmate across the hall. 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:16.060 Or, hey, students, it may be to share to that teacher that you're not so sure about. 00:05:16.360 --> 00:05:17.180 That's okay, too. 00:05:17.860 --> 00:05:20.579 It may be that you get on a plane and you go to Peru. 00:05:20.759 --> 00:05:23.000 Or you get on and you go flying across another ocean. 00:05:23.079 --> 00:05:25.040 Or you get on a train or a boat or whatever it is. 00:05:25.060 --> 00:05:28.120 And you go to great lengths to go share the gospel somewhere else. 00:05:28.860 --> 00:05:29.899 That's fantastic. 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:31.840 We are all called to serve. 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:35.399 The identity of Camp McCall is that of service. 00:05:35.579 --> 00:05:37.679 It's that of missions education. 00:05:37.939 --> 00:05:43.119 It's that the Christ followers come together to share and to tell other people about who Jesus is. 00:05:43.159 --> 00:05:45.459 But it's one thing for us to share about who Jesus is. 00:05:45.739 --> 00:05:48.259 It's another thing for us to actually go and do it. 00:05:49.139 --> 00:05:50.919 We can talk about missions all we want to. 00:05:51.479 --> 00:05:53.039 We can raise money for Janie Chapman. 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:54.799 We can do whatever other offering we want. 00:05:54.879 --> 00:05:56.120 Lottie and Annie. 00:05:56.259 --> 00:05:57.839 We can raise those funds. 00:05:57.919 --> 00:05:58.659 And that's fantastic. 00:05:58.660 --> 00:06:00.300 We're a product of Janie up here. 00:06:00.720 --> 00:06:05.020 Like the money you take up for Janie Chapman, it helps send our guys on mission trips. 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:13.660 But also the giving, the love offering this morning that we take up here at the end of the service, that is also 100% goes to sending these guys on mission somewhere. 00:06:14.120 --> 00:06:19.640 We believe that by their second summer with us, they should have the ability to be able to go and talk to other people. 00:06:19.639 --> 00:06:28.279 That's not just at Camp McCall, but it's somewhere else about who Jesus is and how Jesus has changed their life and what their identity and who their identity is found in. 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:41.379 And so over the last seven years, we've had 158 guys and some of our kitchen staff and health care workers, so some ladies in there too, that have gone on 72 different deployments. 00:06:41.459 --> 00:06:44.759 They've gone to 72 different locations over the last seven years. 00:06:44.759 --> 00:06:47.740 This year alone, we're fixing to go to Cuba. 00:06:48.180 --> 00:06:49.839 We're going to be going to Dominican Republic. 00:06:49.980 --> 00:06:51.539 I left you out this morning on the first service. 00:06:51.639 --> 00:06:52.000 I apologize. 00:06:52.579 --> 00:06:53.279 Dominican Republic. 00:06:53.519 --> 00:06:59.779 We're going to Portland with Shady Grove Baptist Church to go help with a soccer camp out there in Portland, Oregon. 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:03.079 We're going to go to Clarkston, Georgia with Marietta First Baptist Church. 00:07:03.659 --> 00:07:05.659 We're going to go to Camp Carraway. 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:07.740 We help the North Carolina Baptist camp out. 00:07:07.819 --> 00:07:10.819 They don't have enough young men that they can hire every summer. 00:07:10.819 --> 00:07:21.819 So for the last, I don't know, seven, eight, some time back, we've developed this partnership with them where we'll send them a couple of guys each summer to go help that one week of boys camp. 00:07:22.159 --> 00:07:24.959 We get to do 12 camps of boys camp. 00:07:25.019 --> 00:07:28.180 They only have one, and so we go help them out there because camp's what we know, right? 00:07:28.600 --> 00:07:34.079 And so if you've gone on a mission trip this year or in the past by Camp McCall, please raise your hand. 00:07:34.139 --> 00:07:34.980 Let's see where you've gone. 00:07:35.159 --> 00:07:36.060 You've gone to Cuba. 00:07:37.120 --> 00:07:37.560 Alaska? 00:07:37.560 --> 00:07:37.639 Alaska? 00:07:38.360 --> 00:07:38.800 Alaska? 00:07:40.079 --> 00:07:40.920 Yeah, either one. 00:07:40.939 --> 00:07:41.160 Sedona? 00:07:41.339 --> 00:07:41.699 Sedona? 00:07:41.939 --> 00:07:42.459 Alaska? 00:07:42.660 --> 00:07:43.060 Alaska? 00:07:43.379 --> 00:07:44.300 Cuba, North Carolina. 00:07:44.579 --> 00:07:45.420 Cuba, North Carolina. 00:07:45.980 --> 00:07:46.459 New Orleans? 00:07:47.180 --> 00:07:47.600 Sedona. 00:07:47.780 --> 00:07:48.259 Sedona? 00:07:48.740 --> 00:07:49.540 New Orleans and Utah. 00:07:49.959 --> 00:07:51.300 New Orleans, Utah, New Orleans. 00:07:51.620 --> 00:07:51.879 Cuba? 00:07:52.079 --> 00:07:52.399 Cuba. 00:07:52.699 --> 00:07:53.300 Clarkston, Georgia. 00:07:53.439 --> 00:07:56.800 Clarkston, Alaska, Alaska, and Clarkston. 00:07:56.899 --> 00:07:57.540 Kenya and Italy. 00:07:57.800 --> 00:07:58.500 Kenya and Italy. 00:07:59.019 --> 00:08:00.019 Spain and North Carolina. 00:08:00.100 --> 00:08:02.959 Spain and North Carolina and Alaska and Peru. 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:03.000 True. 00:08:03.419 --> 00:08:03.560 Yep. 00:08:03.939 --> 00:08:08.339 And so some of you, so there's some former staff out here too that you've been around as 00:08:08.339 --> 00:08:10.479 well, and we thank you for being willing to go. 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:12.339 But it takes time. 00:08:12.479 --> 00:08:13.120 It takes effort. 00:08:13.379 --> 00:08:14.620 Sometimes it takes a little prodding. 00:08:15.599 --> 00:08:22.179 Some may find it harder to travel than others, and you get to experience new things and new 00:08:22.179 --> 00:08:23.339 places and that sort of stuff. 00:08:24.239 --> 00:08:28.019 But we want you to continue to pray for us this summer on just being on mission, that 00:08:28.019 --> 00:08:29.619 these guys will be encouraged to go. 00:08:29.699 --> 00:08:31.079 Sometimes they get to go during the summertime. 00:08:31.539 --> 00:08:33.179 Other times they go throughout the school year. 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:37.399 They'll take their fall breaks off, and instead of going and hanging out somewhere with a bunch 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:39.059 of friends, they'll go on a mission trip somewhere. 00:08:39.220 --> 00:08:43.559 They'll go on a spring break trip and have a good time and tell others about Jesus instead 00:08:43.559 --> 00:08:44.679 of going to a beach somewhere. 00:08:45.059 --> 00:08:47.919 And so that's just the kind of heart that we get to serve with up here. 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:49.899 So thank you for what you do as a church. 00:08:49.899 --> 00:08:54.740 I know y'all have helped with Sedona, Arizona before, with Alethea Church. 00:08:54.980 --> 00:08:56.939 And we got some products of that here. 00:08:57.059 --> 00:09:00.139 We got Sidewinder and McFly and Anna out here. 00:09:00.439 --> 00:09:03.519 They're the children of Josh Jennings, the pastor out there. 00:09:03.559 --> 00:09:06.919 So if you've ever been out there to work in Sedona, his family is here. 00:09:07.379 --> 00:09:11.519 And so that's kind of even a tie that First Baptist has had with Camp McCall and some 00:09:11.519 --> 00:09:12.340 of that kind of stuff there. 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:13.179 So thank y'all again. 00:09:13.480 --> 00:09:18.279 And I want to pray for us this morning as the challenge and the charge that we will find 00:09:18.279 --> 00:09:20.819 our identity in Christ and that we will go out and tell the world. 00:09:20.919 --> 00:09:24.439 God, we're grateful for the opportunity to be able to go share about you. 00:09:24.860 --> 00:09:30.899 Father, we're grateful that you have given us a challenge as we receive your son, Jesus, 00:09:31.039 --> 00:09:36.679 in our heart to be able to go out and share about who he is to help the world to know about 00:09:36.679 --> 00:09:38.759 this incredible God that we serve. 00:09:39.699 --> 00:09:40.839 Lord, thank you for your love. 00:09:40.840 --> 00:09:47.960 Thank you for finances, for funding, for places to go, for transportation, all those things 00:09:47.960 --> 00:09:49.460 that are wrapped in on going on a trip. 00:09:50.100 --> 00:09:52.480 God, we're so thankful for that. 00:09:52.820 --> 00:09:54.440 And we feel blessed and honored. 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:58.700 God, may you continue to guide us through this service this morning. 00:09:58.860 --> 00:09:59.800 In your precious name we pray. 00:09:59.920 --> 00:10:00.139 Amen. 00:10:00.139 --> 00:10:00.280 Amen. 00:10:00.280 --> 00:10:00.300 Amen. 00:10:00.300 --> 00:10:00.300 00:10:00.300 --> 00:10:00.300 00:10:00.300 --> 00:10:00.300