Sermon Tone Analysis

How does the biblical truth that people aren’t good compare with the world’s understanding of the nature of people?

The King’s Captivity to Sin

2 Sam

Kings go out to battle in the spring

David stayed in Jerusalem

David sees Bethsheba bathing

John Walton, OT scholar, speculates that the author includes this in the story to show that she was definitely not pregnant by her husband for this is the purification mentioned in .

What was David’s response upon seeing this beautiful woman bathing?

What should David have done?

David Inquired about her: this was now premeditated adultery

Bethsheba was an Israelite

Uriah was a Hittite

From at least 2000 BC this population is known, from monumental records, to have been partly Sem and partly Mongolic; and the same mixed race is represented by the Hittite records recently discovered in Cappadocia and Pontus.

Is it possible that David justified his behavior because Uriah was not an Israelite?

We can be extremely creative when it comes to justifying our sin

What can we do to protect ourselves from temptation and sins like adultery?

What are some ways sin keeps the sinner captive?

Rarely is sin an isolated, 1x incident

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The King’s Compounding Sin

What is going on here?

It is an old-fashioned cover-up

What is

If at first you do not succeed, just kill them.

What are some ways you have observed the compounding effects of sin?

Sin as Transgression

The word transgression means “to cross over” or “to pass by” and is often used in reference to transgressing God’s explicit command.

When God gives a specific command, as He did with Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, and when that command is disobeyed transgression has taken place.

In this sense, sin is law-breaking.

The King’s Confrontation

2 Samuel 12

You are the man!

American Christians think they have a right to their own private lives to live as they choose.

Confrontation is

1 cor 5 11

John

The King’s Confession of Sin

4-10

Against you ONLY I have sinned

I have done evil

You are justified when you speak

You are blameless when you judge

I was born in iniquity (lawlessness)

How can we strive for a biblical balance regarding sin?

What is Repentance?

2 cor 10

A response to God’s gracious call to salvation.

It includes a genuine sorrow for one’s sin, a turning away from one’s sin toward Christ, and a life that reflects lasting change and transformation.

1 cor

How will you be appropriately transparent about your sin to show others God’s goodness to forgive through Christ Jesus?