The Family Is the Most Important System of Governance - THE CHURCH series - Nate Clarke

"We Build Strong Families"
Joshua 24:15
The Church Series - Part 4 - The Most Important System of Governance
Pastor Nate Clarke
May 17, 2026


Virginia's proposed Constitutional amendments on Abortion & Marriage - How to VOTE BIBLICALLY: https://youtu.be/Y8z8xTFsOn8

How should Christians respond to wickedness in the world? https://youtu.be/2OJUIM9YRwA


SERMON NOTES:
- Our Vision: Worship God, Equip the believers, Reach the lost
- Our Values: Grounded in His Word, Guided by His Presence, Building Strong Families, and Fulfilling the Great Commission
- Joshua 24:15
- We build strong families
- Systems of governance: The family (Eph 5), the Church (Eph 4), the government (Rom 13)
- "Peace in society depends upon peace in the family." Saint Augustine
- Your family story is not the obstacle to God's plan, it is often the setting for it.
- Natural Families
      - God ordained & designed: husband + wife = children.
- Genesis 1:27-28
- Genesis 2:24
- Deuteronomy 6:6-9
- "When parents receive a child from the hand of God, they receive a life to be shaped and molded." Elisabeth Elliot
     - Example: Joseph, Mary, and Jesus
- Broken families
     - Example: Joseph and his brothers (Genesis 37)
     - God's plan is not hindered by man's dysfunction (Genesis 50:20)
- Blended families
     - Example: Jacob, Leah, Rachel (Genesis 29-30)
     - God works even in complicated family systems 
- Adopted families
     - Example: Moses & Pharoah's daughter (Exodus 2) 
     - God used his adoption to position him with influence and access that he would use to deliver Israel
- Restored families
     - Example: Prodigal son (Luke 15)
     - God can redeem any situation
- Spiritual family
     - Example: Jesus and his disciples
- Mark 3:31-35
- Ephesians 1:5 NLT
- Romans 8:15 NLT
     - Because God is a provider, what you lacked in your natural family, God can give you in your spiritual family.
- Your family story is not the obstacle to God's plan, it's often the setting for it.
- Joshua 24:15b

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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