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

"Why We Tithe"
Genesis 14:11-20
The Book of Genesis Series - In The Beginning, God
Pastor Nate Clarke
May 18, 2025


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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/

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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

Oasis Church exists to Worship God, Equip the believers, and Reach the lost.
We are led by Pastor Nate Clarke and are located in Richmond, VA.

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