Mark Mullery
2 Samuel 11—Now I See Sin

1. What is David’s situation?

2. How is he reacting?

3. What does he want?

4. What are the consequences?

5. The believer’s capacity for sin

“But it is one thing for a man to know in general that there is a law of sin; another thing for a man to have an experience of the power of this law of sin in himself.” John Owen

“Our enemy is not only upon us, as it was with Samson, but it is also in us.” John Owen

“This then is the dwelling place of sin—the human heart. Here dwells our enemy. Within this fort the tyrant sin maintains its rebellion against God all our days. Like an enemy at war, it is not just his numbers and force of men under arms that are to be feared, but also the impregnable fortress that he possesses.” John Owen

“Yet the believer must remember that the power is from God, not himself, and do it all in a spirit of prayerful dependence, or else he will fail.” J. I. Packer

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