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God wants your worship, not your pocket change - Nate Clarke - The Book of Genesis May 19, 2025

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"Why We Tithe"
Genesis 14:11-20
The Book of Genesis Series - In The Beginning, God
Pastor Nate Clarke
May 18, 2025
KIDS SPACE with EXPANDED MOTHER'S ROOM!
Along with dedicated play and classroom spaces for babies, kids, and youth, we just expanded our Mother's Room — a quiet, private space for Mother's to care for their babies and still be able to watch the worship and sermon on Sunday mornings. https://www.instagram.com/oasischurchva/reel/C8FqHIipr3u/
Learn about this year's Kingdom Builder's project: https://www.oasischurch.online/kingdom-builders
How should Christians think about voting and politics? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak82aD16r04
OUR NEW VISION STATEMENT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0WFhtL7h3I
SERMON NOTES:
- Genesis 14:11-20
- Why We Tithe
- A Christian should not always be looking for a fight, but a Christian must always be ready to fight.
- We should not fight every fight, but we must fight some fights.
- Melchizedek
- A priest and a king
- stood for righteousness and peace
- “An upright and sincere cultivator and guardian of religion.” Calvin
- Hebrews 7:4-7
- Genesis 14:19-20
- The tithe is given before the law
- Genesis 28:20-22
- The tithe is prescribed in the law
- Leviticus 27:30-32
- Numbers 18:26
- Deuteronomy 14:22
- 2 Chronicles 31:11-12
- Deuteronomy 16:16-17
- Proverbs 3:9-10
- Nehemiah 13:11-12
- Jesus reinforces the tithe
- Matthew 23:23
- The tithe is the first fruit of my increase
- Genesis 14:20
- Spoils: “the top of the heap”
- 2 Samuel 24:24
- “Give til you feel it. The great sweetness of giving to God begins when we feel the pinch. When we have to deny ourselves in order that we may give.” Charles Spurgeon
- The tithe isn’t mine, it’s God’s
- Malachi 3:7-8
- I bring my tithe as an act of worship to the Lord
- Reasons I tithe:
- It rids my heart and hands of greed and consumption
- It provides for God’s house
- God promises to bless me and take care of me
- It communicates that God comes first in my life
- It demonstrates my faith and trust in God
- Genesis 14:19-20
- The tithe is not a transaction to get God to bless me, it is worship to God because He has already blessed me.
- “Money flows effortlessly to that which is its god.” Tim Keller
- Deuteronomy 12:4-7
- “People go through three conversions: the conversion of their head, their heart, and their pocketbook. Unfortunately, not all at the same time.” Martin Luther

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Proximity to sin is fine… until it's not - Nate Clarke - The Book of Genesis May 13, 2025

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"Faith vs Sight"
Genesis 13:5-18
The Book of Genesis Series - In The Beginning, God
Pastor Nate Clarke
May 11, 2025
KIDS SPACE with EXPANDED MOTHER'S ROOM!
Along with dedicated play and classroom spaces for babies, kids, and youth, we just expanded our Mother's Room — a quiet, private space for Mother's to care for their babies and still be able to watch the worship and sermon on Sunday mornings. https://www.instagram.com/oasischurchva/reel/C8FqHIipr3u/
Learn about this year's Kingdom Builder's project: https://www.oasischurch.online/kingdom-builders
How should Christians think about voting and politics? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak82aD16r04
OUR NEW VISION STATEMENT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0WFhtL7h3I
SERMON NOTES:
- Genesis 13:5-18
- Faith vs Sight
- 2 Corinthians 5:7
- Lot looked at Sodom with his eyes
- Genesis 13:10
- “There is a road from the eyes to the heart that does not go through the intellect.” GK Chesterton
- “What we think about when we are free to think…that is what we are or will soon become.” AW Tozer
- Lot moved around Sodom with his feet
- Genesis 13:12
- “Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions. Men do not differ much about what things they call evils, they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.” GK Chesterton
- Lot camped in Sodom with his life
- Genesis 14:12
- Sodom is a slippery slope
- Abram looked at the promised land with his eyes
- Genesis 13:14-15
- Abram looked in obedience to God’s commands, not in submission to his own desires.
- Abram moved around the promised land with his feet
- Genesis 13:17
- Abram camped in the promised land with his life
- Genesis 13:18a
- Genesis 13:18b
- If Sodom gets your eyes, feet, and life, it’ll end up taking something way move valuable; your worship.

Are you wandering in a spiritual Egypt? - Nate Clarke - The Book of Genesis May 05, 2025

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"Our Failures and God’s Faithfulness"
Genesis 12:10-13:4
The Book of Genesis Series - In The Beginning, God
Pastor Nate Clarke
May 4, 2025
NEW KIDS SPACE NOW OPEN!
We have expanded with 3x more space for the babies, kids, and youth in your family. https://www.instagram.com/oasischurchva/reel/C8FqHIipr3u/
Learn about this year's Kingdom Builder's project: https://www.oasischurch.online/kingdom-builders
How should Christians think about voting and politics? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak82aD16r04
OUR NEW VISION STATEMENT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0WFhtL7h3I
SERMON NOTES:
- Genesis 12:10 - 13:4
- Our failures and God’s faithfulness
- Test will often follow triumphs
- Don’t think “how can I get out of this?” But rather, “how can I get through this with God?”
- James 1:2-4
- Egypt: the world. Spiritual bondage. Wrong alliance with God. Trusting Human Resources rather than God.
- Abram’s trials before going to Egypt:
- His wife was barren (He was unsure of God’s promises)
- Destination unknown (He felt directionless / not in control of his future)
- He was isolated (He left his people)
- He had loss (His father had passed)
- Canaanites were in the land / He found no home
- Famine in the land (Life was a daily struggle)
- Signs that you’ve spiritually wandered down to Egypt:
- You’ve got from trusting God to scheming with man.
- Proverbs 3:5-6
- You’ve gone from confidence in God to fear of man.
- Proverbs 29:25
- Galatians 1:10
- 2 Timothy 1:7 ESV
- You’ve gone from serving others to being consumed with yourself
- Genesis 12:11-13
- You’ve gone from bringing blessing to bringing judgement
- Genesis 12:17
- In Egypt, even the things you gain will cause you trouble
- Even when our faith is weak, our God is strong
- 2 Timothy 2:13
- Genesis 12:8
- Genesis 13:3-4
- Don’t abandon your alter
- If you find yourself in a spiritual Egypt, go back to the place of worship that you were before
- Revelation 2:4-5

Agreeing with God comes with a cost - Nate Clarke - The Book of Genesis Apr 30, 2025

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"A Life of Faith"
Genesis 12:1-9
The Book of Genesis Series - In The Beginning, God
Pastor Nate Clarke
April 27, 2025
FREE INDOOR PLAYGROUND:
Follow Oasis Kids for news on FREE OPEN PLAY dates in our 2,000 sq ft indoor playground in Richmond, VA. https://www.instagram.com/oasischurchva/reel/C8FqHIipr3u/
Learn about this year's Kingdom Builder's project: https://www.oasischurch.online/kingdom-builders
How should Christians respond to POLITICAL ISSUES? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak82aD16r04
WHY WE UPDATED OUR VISION STATEMENT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0WFhtL7h3I
SERMON NOTES:
- Genesis 12:1-9
- A Life of Faith
- Human Race
Individual (Abram)
Nation (Israel)
Revelation (God’s Word & ways)
Redeemer (Jesus)
- Abraham: Genesis 12-23
Isaac: Genesis 24-26
Jacob: Genesis 27-36
Joseph: Genesis 37-50
- Romans 4:3
- Genesis 12:1
- Acts 7:2-4
- Faith is agreeing with God
- Genesis 11:4
- Genesis 12:1-3
- Faith is leaving things behind
- Abram’s faith required him to leave his land, his people, and his father’s household (blessing)
- Luke 9:23-25
- Luke 9:57-62
- Faith is expressed at every step
- Genesis 12:7
- Genesis 12:8
- Faith is believing that greater things are ahead with God
- Abram was promised by faith: land, a nation, and a blessing
- Left: a land, a people, and his blessing
Received: land, a nation, and getting & being a blessing
- Luke 18:29-30

The Greatest News in the History of Humanity - Nate Clarke - Easter Sunday Apr 22, 2025

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"A Living Hope"
Luke 24:1-12, 1 Peter 1:3
Pastor Nate Clarke
April 20, 2025
KIDS SPACE WITH INDOOR PLAYGROUND:
We have expanded with 3x more space for the babies, kids, and youth in your family. https://www.instagram.com/oasischurchva/reel/C8FqHIipr3u/
Learn about this year's Kingdom Builder's project: https://www.oasischurch.online/kingdom-builders
How should Christians respond to POLITICAL ISSUES? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak82aD16r04
WHY WE UPDATED OUR VISION STATEMENT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0WFhtL7h3I
SERMON NOTES:
- Luke 24:1-12
- 1 Peter 1:3
- A Living Hope
- The single greatest hope-giving event in history is the resurrection of Christ from the grave.
- It was so great the prophets longed to know about it
- 1 Peter 1:3
- 1 Peter 1:10-12
- It was so great the disciples couldn’t even imagine it
- Matthew 16:21-22
- Luke 18:31-34
- Mark 9:30-32
- Luke 24:12
- It was so great that today we can know it, receive it, and live in its hope
- 1 Peter 1:3
- 1 Corinthians 2:7-9
- 1 Corinthians 2:10a (stop after “his Spirit”)

This is Why Jesus Flipped Tables in the Temple - Nate Clarke - Palm Sunday Apr 16, 2025

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"Jesus vs The Money Changers"
Matthew 21:1-13
Pastor Nate Clarke
April 13, 2025
EASTER is Sunday, April 20th!
We'd love to see you and your family come worship and celebrate our Risen Savior on Easter. We'll have two Sunday morning services at 9:00 and 10:30 AM. https://www.instagram.com/p/DHby1_3OHVo/
KIDS SPACE WITH INDOOR PLAYGROUND:
We have expanded with 3x more space for the babies, kids, and youth in your family. https://www.instagram.com/oasischurchva/reel/C8FqHIipr3u/
Learn about this year's Kingdom Builder's project: https://www.oasischurch.online/kingdom-builders
How should Christians respond to POLITICAL ISSUES? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak82aD16r04
WHY WE UPDATED OUR VISION STATEMENT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0WFhtL7h3I
SERMON NOTES:
- Matthew 21:1-13
- Parousia: “triumphal entry”
- 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
- Hebrews 9:28
- Jesus’ entrance is public because he is driving people to a decision
- John 2:3-4
- John 7:6
- Matthew 8:4
- Matthew 16:20
- “Jesus was either a liar, a lunatic, or Lord.” CS Lewis
- The worship was extravagant because He is worthy of it.
- Matthew 21:8-9
- Luke 19:38-40
- “It is a mark of Christ’s presence when the church becomes enthusiastic. This age does not generally sin in the direction of being too excited concerning divine things. We have erred so long on the other side that, perhaps, a little excess in the direction of fervor might not be the worst of all calamities; at any rate, I would not fear to try it.” Charles Spurgeon
- Jesus enters the temple to transfer the management
- Matthew 21:12-13
- Outer courts: Women and Gentiles
Inner courts: ceremonially clean Jews
Holy of Holies: Only the High Priests
- Isaiah 56:7
- 1 Corinthians 3:16-17
- 1 Peter 2:9-10

Why We Need the Holy Spirit - Michael Morisi Apr 08, 2025

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"Promise & Power of the Holy Spirit"
Acts 1:4-8
Pastor Michael Morisi
April 6, 2025
EASTER is Sunday, April 20th!
We'd love to see you and your family come worship and celebrate our Risen Savior on Easter. We'll have two Sunday morning services at 9:00 and 10:30 AM. https://www.instagram.com/p/DHby1_3OHVo/
KIDS SPACE WITH INDOOR PLAYGROUND:
We have expanded with 3x more space for the babies, kids, and youth in your family. https://www.instagram.com/oasischurchva/reel/C8FqHIipr3u/
Learn about this year's Kingdom Builder's project: https://www.oasischurch.online/kingdom-builders
How should Christians respond to POLITICAL ISSUES? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak82aD16r04
WHY WE UPDATED OUR VISION STATEMENT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0WFhtL7h3I
SERMON NOTES:
- Promise & Power of the Holy Spirit
- Acts 1:4-8
- The Command to Wait
- The Promise of the Holy Spirit
- The Question of Restoration
- The Promise of Power and the Great Commission
- Jesus is Calling you to Walk in His Image

God Broke their Unity for His Purpose - Nate Clarke - The Book of Genesis Apr 04, 2025

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“What Are You Building?”
Genesis 11:1-9
The Book of Genesis Series - In The Beginning, God
Pastor Nate Clarke
March 30, 2025
EASTER is Sunday, April 20th!
We'd love to see you and your family come worship and celebrate our Risen Savior on Easter. We'll have two Sunday morning services at 9:00 and 10:30 AM. https://www.instagram.com/p/DHby1_3OHVo/
NEW KIDS SPACE NOW OPEN!
We have expanded with 3x more space for the babies, kids, and youth in your family. https://www.instagram.com/oasischurchva/reel/C8FqHIipr3u/
Learn about this year's Kingdom Builder's project: https://www.oasischurch.online/kingdom-builders
How should Christians think about political issues? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak82aD16r04
OUR NEW VISION STATEMENT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0WFhtL7h3I
SERMON NOTES:
- Genesis 11:1-9
- What Are You Building?
- The garden: “be like God. Did God really say?”
Tower of Babel: “let’s be gods.”
Babylon: “bow down & worship this false god.”
- The days will change, but the temptations remain the same
- Humanity’s temptation: build a life void of God
- Babel builders vs Godly builders
- Babel builders disobey God’s clear commands. Godly builders submit to God’s clear commands.
- Genesis 11:4
- Psalm 2:1-4
- Babel builders seek to make a great name for themselves. Godly builders seek to make God’s name great.
- Proverbs 16:18
- Psalm 115:1
- Babel builders build something great only by the world’s standards. Godly builders but something great by God’s standards.
- Babel builders’ greatness is earthly and temporary. Godly builders’ greatness is eternal.
- Acts 5:33-39
- In His mercy, God will thwart the plans of man for the accomplishment of His own
- Proverbs 19:21

How to Live Blameless - Nate Clarke - The Book of Genesis Mar 24, 2025

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"How to Live Blameless"
Genesis 6:8-9; 6:22; 7:1-5
The Book of Genesis Series - In The Beginning, God
Pastor Nate Clarke
March 23, 2025
March 30 is FIFTH SUNDAY!
Stay after service for fun, food, and fellowship with church family.
Inflatables for the kids, and hot food off the grill.
How should Christians think about political issues? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak82aD16r04
NEW KIDS SPACE NOW OPEN!
We have expanded with 3x more space for the babies, kids, and youth in your family. https://www.instagram.com/oasischurchva/reel/C8FqHIipr3u/
Learn about this year's Kingdom Builder's project: https://www.oasischurch.online/kingdom-builders
OUR NEW VISION STATEMENT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0WFhtL7h3I
SERMON NOTES:
- Genesis 6:8-9
- Genesis 6:22
- Genesis 7:1-5
- How to live blameless
- Luke 17:24-27
- Hebrews 11:7
- Genesis 6:9
- 1 Thessalonians 2:10
- Be willing to stand alone
- “Always remember: you cannot carry a cross in company. Though a vast crowd surrounds a man, his cross is his alone and his carrying of it makes him as a man apart. Society has turned against him; otherwise he would have no cross. No one is a friend to the man with a cross.” AW Tozer
- 2 Timothy 4:16-17
- 1 Corinthians 15:58
- Matthew 24:12-13
- “The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world. In their effort to achieve restful adjustment to an unregenerate society, they have lost their pilgrim character and become an essential part of the very moral order which they are sent to protest. The world recognizes the modern Christian and accepts them for what they are. This is the saddest thing that can be said about them. They are not lonely, but neither are they saints.” AW Tozer
- Psalm 118:6-8
- Acts 2:14
- Acts 7:54-56
- Be willing to persevere in faith filled work
- 2 Peter 2:5
- Romans 5:3-4
- Hebrews 12:1-3
- Galatians 6:9
- Be determined to be an extravagant worshipper
- Genesis 7:1-3
- Genesis 8:18-21
- Romans 12:1-2
- “We either crucify or crown the Lord Jesus by our lives.” J Vernon McGee

God’s Judgement & Mercy - Nate Clarke - The Book of Genesis Mar 20, 2025

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"God’s Judgement & Mercy"
Genesis 6:1-8
The Book of Genesis Series - In The Beginning, God
Pastor Nate Clarke
March 16, 2025
March 30 is FIFTH SUNDAY!
Stay after service for fun, food, and fellowship with church family.
Inflatables for the kids, and hot food off the grill.
How should Christians think about political issues? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak82aD16r04
NEW KIDS SPACE NOW OPEN!
We have expanded with 3x more space for the babies, kids, and youth in your family. https://www.instagram.com/oasischurchva/reel/C8FqHIipr3u/
Learn about this year's Kingdom Builder's project: https://www.oasischurch.online/kingdom-builders
OUR NEW VISION STATEMENT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0WFhtL7h3I
SERMON NOTES:
- Genesis 6:1-8
- God’s Judgement & Mercy
- Genesis 6:1-2
- Genesis 6:4
- God is just judge
- Genesis 6:6-7
- Genesis 6:5
- Romans 3:10-11
- Romans 3:23
- God is patient
- Genesis 6:3
- Psalm 103:8
- 2 Peter 2:5
- Psalm 103:8
- 1 Timothy 1:16
- 2 Peter 3:9
- 2 Peter 3:10
- Don’t let God’s patience towards you create procrastination in you.
- God is merciful
- Genesis 6:8
- Genesis 9:12-17
- Isaiah 54:9-10

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