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There is only ONE Truth - Gus Agostino Jul 03, 2024

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“The Exclusivity of Christ”
Romans 5
Pastor Gus Agostino
June 30, 2024
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGL-Xr4I4_c
SERMON NOTES:
- The Bible teaches ONE truth found in one person and that one person is Christ!
- Romans Chapter 1 Shows God’s wrath against the sinful human race. Romans 1:18
- Romans Chapter 2 explains God’s righteous judgment for the sin of all of us. Romans 2:15
- Chapter 3 he makes it clear how lost we are. Roman 3:10-11
- Romans 3:21-25a
- Chapter 4 explains this has been God’s plan from the beginning. Roman 4:21-25
- Chapter 5 answers the ending of chapter 4. Romans 4:25
- Chapter 5 can be broken into 2 parts
Verses 1-11 shows the blessings we have if we receive God’s gift of salvation resulting in Justification. 12-21 the bases of our justification
- The Blessing we receive in Christ when we are Justified
- We have peace with God Romans 5:1
- We have Access to God! Romans 5:2a
- We have hope Romans 5:2b
- We now have Christian character Romans 5:3-4
- God’s Love within 5:5-8
- Salvation from future wrath 5:9-10
- Reconciliation 5:11
- Why would anyone reject this and not accept this?
- 1 Corinthians 15:22, 45-49
- Romans 3:23
- Psalm 51:5
- In Matthew 25:41 “Then He will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels:
- Through Adam all have sinned BUT through Jesus all can be made righteous
- Through Adam Judgment followed bringing condemnation BUT through Jesus the gift followed bringing justification
- Through the one man’s disobedience Adam made all sinners BUT through the one man’s obedience, Jesus will make many righteous.
- Sin increased, reigning in death BUT grace increased much more reigning in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord
- John 1:12-13

Oasis Church exists to Worship God, Equip the believers, and Reach the lost.
We are led by Pastor Nate Clarke and are located in Mechanicsville outside Richmond in Central Virginia.
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Is it OK for Christians to disobey the government? - ITCHING EARS Series - Nate Clarke Jun 26, 2024

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“The Blessing of Boundaries”
2 Timothy 4:3-5
ITCHING EARS Series
Pastor Nate Clarke https://www.instagram.com/nateclarke_/
June 26, 2024
Have you heard? We are expanding our current space to make room for families and the next generation, with 3x more space for babies, kids, and youth. Look for more updates soon!
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Learn about this year's Kingdom Builders project to secure land for the future of Oasis Church:
https://www.oasischurch.online/kingdom-builders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGL-Xr4I4_c
SERMON NOTES:
- 2 Timothy 4:3-5
- The Blessing of Boundaries
- Boundaries are not meant to be a burden, but to be a blessing.
- Genesis 2:15-17
- In the giving of a boundary, God is desiring to give you freedom!
- Christ is the greatest authority
- Genesis 1:1-3
- Colossians 1:15-18
- Supreme: “highest in rank or authority.”
- [Lanes illustration]
- The Family: Christ, husband, wife, children.
- Ephesians 5:22-28
- Ephesians 6:1-3
- The Church
- 1 Corinthians 16:15-16
- 1 Thessalonians 5:12-13
- Titus 2:15
- Hebrews 13:7
- Hebrews 13:17
- 1 Timothy 3:15
- 2 Timothy 3:16-17
- 1 Peter 5:1-4
- The Church: be a pillar of truth, shepherd the flock
- The State / Government
- Romans 13:1
- 1 Peter 2:13-14
- Titus 3:1
- Mark 12:14-17
- The State: govern the people, punish evil & reward good
- Lord, give us discernment on when to disobey.
- We disobey when submission to earthly authority = rebellion to heavenly authority, Christ.
- Acts 4:18-20
- Lord, give us discernment to know our lane.
- Lord, give us freedom as we yield to the authority of Christ and the authorities He has established in our lives.
- [Cliff illustration]

How to identify PROSPERITY and PROGRESSIVE *FALSE GOSPELS* — ITCHING EARS Series - Nate Clarke Jun 18, 2024

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“The Gospel vs false gospels”
2 Timothy 4:3
ITCHING EARS Series
Pastor Nate Clarke https://www.instagram.com/nateclarke_/
June 16, 2024
Have you heard? We are expanding our current space at Oasis to make room for families, with 3x more space for kids, youth, and the next generation. Look for more updates soon!
https://www.instagram.com/oasischurchva/reel/C8FqHIipr3u/
Learn about this year's Kingdom Builders project to secure land for the future of Oasis Church:
https://www.oasischurch.online/kingdom-builders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGL-Xr4I4_c
SERMON NOTES:
- 2 Timothy 4:3
- The Gospel vs False gospels
- A false gospel is a shift, big or small, off of the message of Christ and onto anything else.
- A false gospel will always contain “revelation” that’s not revealed in the scriptures.
- Titus 3:3-7
- 1 Corinthians 15:3-4
- Galatians 2:16, 19-21
- Romans 10:9-10
- Galatians 1:6-9
- 1 Timothy 4:1-2
- 2 Corinthians 11:3-4
- How do false gospels spread?
- False teachers
- Matthew 7:15-16
- Immature teachers
- 1 Timothy 3:6
- 1 Timothy 5:22
- Demons
- 1 Timothy 4:1
- The gospel of self
- The gospel of self “God exists for my glory.”
The Gospel “I exists for God’s glory.”
- The gospel of self “God is a tool to be used to exalt me.”
The Gospel “He must become greater, I must become less” (John 3:30)
- Philippians 2:8-11
- Ephesians 2:8-10
- 2 Timothy 4:18
- 2 Timothy 1:5
- The prosperity gospel
- The prosperity gospel “health, wealth, and happiness are mine if I have enough faith.”
The Gospel “The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”
- Job 1:21 ESV
- James 1:2-4
- 2 Corinthians 11:23-30
- Matthew 5:45b
- Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
- Prosperity gospel “my worth and faith is in my accounts”
The Gospel “my worth and faith is in the cross of Christ”
- Proverbs 30:8-9 ESV
- The progressive love gospel
- The progressive love gospel loves the world more than it loves God.
- Revelation 3:16
- Matthew 24:12
- Phileo “love of friendship, feelings, brotherly emotional love.”
Agape “perfect love, fatherly love, a love of decision not emotion”
- Progressive love gospel “love (phileo) is God.”
The Gospel “God is love (agape).”
- Matthew 22:37
- Progressive love gospel “tolerate and celebrate to be saved!”
The Gospel “repent of your sins and trust Christ to be saved!”
- Revelation 2:20
- Progressive love gospel “we will make god in our own image.”
The Gospel “we have been made in God’s image.”
- Luke 22:31-32
- Job 1:6-7
- 1 Chronicles 21:1
- Revelation 12:10
- Hebrews 7:25
- Romans 8:34
- Luke 22:32

Do you listen to these more than the truth? - ITCHING EARS Series - Nate Clarke Jun 13, 2024

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“What’s itching your ears?”
2 Timothy 4:3; 1 Timothy 3:14-15
ITCHING EARS Series
Pastor Nate Clarke https://www.instagram.com/nateclarke_/
June 9, 2024
Have you heard? We are expanding our current space to make room for families, with 3x more space for kids, youth, and the next generation. Look for more updates soon!
https://www.instagram.com/oasischurchva/reel/C8FqHIipr3u/
Learn about this year's Kingdom Builders project to secure land for the future of Oasis Church:
https://www.oasischurch.online/kingdom-builders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGL-Xr4I4_c
SERMON NOTES:
- 2 Timothy 4:3
- 1 Timothy 3:14-15
- Ephesians 3:10
- What’s itching your ears?
- The church is the pillar of truth
- 2 Timothy 3:12-17
- The church doesn’t create the truth, it upholds and demonstrates the truth.
- “God does not bestow the Spirit on his people in order to set aside the use of His word, rather to render it fruitful.” John Calvin
- “As seed is made for soil and soil for seed, so the heart is made for God’s truth and God’s truth for the heart.” Richard Glover
- 2 Timothy 4:3
- “dominated by their personal cravings”
- John 8:44
- 2 Peter 2:1-3
- Acts 17:21
- Jeremiah 5:30-31
- Jeremiah 6:16-17
- Acts 2:37
- Types of itching ears:
- Theological itching ears
- “I can’t worship a God that would _______.”
- Moral / Lifestyle itching ears
- Political itching ears
- Entertainment / Comfort itching ears
- “A church that can’t worship must be entertained. And leaders who can’t lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.” AW Tozer
- “Church members will want to be religiously entertained by Christian performers who tickle their ears. The church that simply opens the Bible is rejected while shallow religious entertainers become celebrities.” Warren Wiersbe
- Ask God to search our hearts and repent of our sins.
- Why should we care about this?
- 2 Timothy 4:1
- God the Father and Jesus the Son care about it
- You will be judged accordingly
- He is coming back again to establish his kingdom
- It’s worth it
- 2 Timothy 4:7-8

The Christian Response to Fake News & False Teachers - ITCHING EARS Series - Nate Clarke Jun 05, 2024

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2 Timothy 4:1-5
Pastor Nate Clarke
June 2, 2024
Learn about this year's Kingdom Builders project to secure land for the future of Oasis Church:
https://www.oasischurch.online/kingdom-builders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGL-Xr4I4_c
SERMON NOTES:
- 2 Timothy 4:1-5
- But For You…
- “The more determined men become to despise the teachings of Christ the more zealous should godly ministers be to assert it and the more strenuous their efforts to preserve it entirely.” John Calvin
- What do we do?
- 1. Keep your head
- “to be free from mental and spiritual drunkenness”
- 2 Timothy 4:3
- 1 Peter 5:8
- Philippians 4:8
- Jeremiah 17:9
- Ephesians 6:14a
- 2. Endure hardship
- “patiently enduring challenge inherent to military service”
- 2 Timothy 1:8
- 2 Timothy 3:12
- Positive World (Pre-1994)
Neutral World (1994-2014)
Negative World (2014-Present)
- Galatians 1:10
- John 15:18-20
- 3. Do the work of an evangelist
- 1 Corinthians 15:1-4
- Romans 1:16
- 1 Corinthians 2:1-2
- “Give the ungodly no rest in their sins.” Charles Spurgeon
- Matthew 4:19
- 4. Fulfill your ministry
- “fill up the full measure of your ministry”
- Ephesians 2:10
Oasis Church exists to help people see Jesus more clearly.
We are led by Pastor Nate Clarke and are located in Richmond, VA.
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Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones… - Guest Jon Alexis Jun 01, 2024

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"Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones…"
James 3:1-12
Guest Pastor Jon Alexis
May 26, 2024
New Sermon Series starting this June at Oasis Church:
ITCHING EARS
From 2 Timothy 4:3
"For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear."
SERMON NOTES:
- James 3
1 Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly. 2 We all stumble in many ways. Anyone who is never at fault in what they say is perfect, able to keep their whole body in check.
3 When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can turn the whole animal. 4 Or take ships as an example. Although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go. 5 Likewise, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. 6 The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.
7 All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and sea creatures are being tamed and have been tamed by mankind, 8 but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. (Why bother? Bring it to rest, like a pet)
9 With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God’s likeness. 10 Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be. 11 Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring? 12 My brothers and sisters, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.
- Sticks and stones may break my bones…
- We are very intentional about language outside of our home
-at work, at school, at church
-our homes get the uncensored version of us
- Matthew 12
33 “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit. 34 You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 35 The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil. 36 I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, 37 for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
- Internal communication
- Philippians 4
8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. 9 What you have learned[e] and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
- Critical Communication
- Ephesians 4:29
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
- Colossians 3:8
But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.
- Speak Life
- Proverbs 12:25
Anxiety weighs down the heart, but a kind word cheers it up.
- Speak a Testimony
- Revelation 12:10-11
10 And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God. 11 And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of t

Instructions for Taking Communion - Nate Clarke May 23, 2024

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"Instructions for Taking Communion"
1 Corinthians 11:17-26
Pastor Nate Clarke
May 19, 2024
New Sermon Series starting this June at Oasis Church:
ITCHING EARS
From 2 Timothy 4:3
"For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear."
Learn about this year's Kingdom Builders project to secure land for the future of Oasis Church:
https://www.oasischurch.online/kingdom-builders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGL-Xr4I4_c
SERMON NOTES:
- 1 Corinthians 11:17-26
- Instructions for Taking Communion
- Look around
- 1 Corinthians 11:17-22
- 1 Corinthians 11:33-34
- Look inward
- 1 Corinthians 11:27-32
- Psalm 139:23-24
- James 1:22-24
- Look back
- 1 Corinthians 11:23-25
- 1 Corinthians 15:3-4
- 1 Corinthians 5:7b
- Luke 22:20
- Look ahead
- 1 Corinthians 11:26
- Matthew 26:29
- Revelation 21:1-6
Oasis Church exists to help people see Jesus more clearly.
We are led by Pastor Nate Clarke and are located in Richmond, VA.
STAY CONNECTED
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OasisChurchRVA/
Website: https://oasischurch.online

The Breakdown of a Blessing - Guest Mike Santiago May 14, 2024

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"The Breakdown of a Blessing"
2 Timothy 1:5-7; Hebrews 6:1-3; 1 Timothy 4:11-16
Pastor Mike Santiago of Focus Church in Raleigh, NC
May 12, 2024
Learn about this year's Kingdom Builders project to secure land for the future of Oasis Church:
https://www.oasischurch.online/kingdom-builders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGL-Xr4I4_c

Where to be Shocked - LIFE of DAVID Series - Nate Clarke May 07, 2024

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"Where to be Shocked"
2 Samuel 6:1-15
ANOINTING & ADVERSITY Series: A Study on the Life of David
Pastor Nate Clarke
May 5, 2024
Learn about this year's Kingdom Builders project to secure land for the future of Oasis Church:
https://www.oasischurch.online/kingdom-builders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGL-Xr4I4_c
SERMON NOTES: - 2 Samuel 6:1-15
- Where to be Shocked
- God has ways and instructions; and we can know them through his revealed will.
- Exodus 25:12-15
- Numbers 4:15
- “The great sin of Uzzah was the sin of arrogance and presumption. He presumed that his hands were cleaner than the dirt and God said, ‘No.’” —Jonathan Edwards
- Acceptable worship is not about what pleases us, it’s about what pleases the Lord.
- “Jesus rebukes the Pharisees not because they were overly zealous for orthodoxy but because they invented their own.” —Burk Parsons
- 1 Chronicles 15:13
- Don’t get your cues for worship from the world, get them from God.
- 1 Samuel 6:1-2, 7-8
- “It is not new things we need, but new fire.” —John Wesley
- Don’t be shocked by God’s justice
- Don’t be shocked by God’s justice, be shocked by His grace
- 2 Samuel 6:12b-14

Mistakes & Mercies - LIFE of DAVID Series - Nate Clarke May 01, 2024

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"Mistakes & Mercies"
2 Samuel 11:1; Psalm 51:1-12
ANOINTING & ADVERSITY Series: A Study on the Life of David
Pastor Nate Clarke
April 28, 2024
SERMON NOTES:
2 Samuel 11:1
Psalm 51:1-12
Mistakes & Mercies
Galatians 5:17
David sowed seeds of the flesh over many years
James 1:13-15
David provided the soil for seeds of the flesh to grow
Soil for sin: idle hands / boredom
Proverbs 18:9
2 Thessalonians 3:11
Soil for sin: Nobody can tell you no
Soil for sin: “Spiritual” justification of evil
2 Samuel 11:4
2 Samuel 11:27
Own your sin
1 John 1:8
Psalm 51:1-2
Own that the sin is yours
Own that the sin is against God
Psalm 51:4
Ask God for the washing of your sin
1 John 1:9
Ask God on the basis of His goodness, not yours
Psalm 51:1
Psalm 51:7-9
Ask God to renew your life
Psalm 51:10
Psalm 51:11-12
Revelation 2:4-5
Learn about this year's Kingdom Builders project to secure land for the future of Oasis Church:
https://www.oasischurch.online/kingdom-builders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGL-Xr4I4_c

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