"Prepare your Heart"
Luke 2:15-18; - Mark 3:7-12
Advent Series
Pastor Nate Clarke
December 7, 2025


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SERMON NOTES:
- Luke 2:15-18
- Mark 3:7-12
- Advent: Prepare Your Heart
- Advent: ‘arrival’ or ‘appearance’
- Advent: a season of preparation to remember the first coming of Jesus, his birth in Bethlehem, and the future return of Jesus, his promised return as king.
- Jesus was drawing people to himself then, and Jesus is drawing people to himself now.
- Luke 2:15
- Mark 3:8
- Mark 3:10
- Matthew 8:27 (NLT)
- Mark 3:9
- Jesus does the drawing and Jesus does the saving, but he invites his disciples into the facilitating.
- Jesus doesn’t just hear the confession of our mouth, but he knows the motive of our heart.
- Mark 3:11
- Mark 5:2, 7
- Just because a true thing is being said doesn’t mean a pure thing is being done.
- Matthew 16:15-16
- Demon’s confession:
      - It was factual, but their life was unfruitful 
      - Acknowledged Jesus’ authority, yet sought to rebel against it
      - They knew who Jesus was, and they didn’t want him.
- James 2:19
- Peter’s confession:
      - Formed by the Spirit and spoken out of friendship
      - Spoken in faith and trust, not in fear
      - Sought to submit to and honor the authority of Jesus, not rebel against it
- Mark 3:12
- Matthew 15:8
- 2 Chronicles 16:9a
- Matthew 16:17-18
- The question is not just do you say, “JESUS IS LORD” but do you say it as a rebel who has to or as a child who chooses to?
- Matthew 7:21
- Romans 10:9-10

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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