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Song Lyrics: What Could’ve Been
I haven't stopped thinking about you
Has it really been this long?
Two years and an ocean between us
And I don't know where it all went wrong
A couple more simple I'm sorrys
A little less trying to be right
I wonder how many good mornings
We wasted 'cause we didn't say goodnight
I don't know what this is or what it isn't
But it feels like we've got unfinished business
'Cause we left blood on the tracks, sweat on the saddle
Fire in the hills, a bullet in the barrel
Words never said in a story that didn't end
Looks like you're on the mend and I'm on the bottle
We folded our hands with money on the table
Tried moving on, but I keep coming back again
To what could've been
What could've been
These of course - LYRICS to a country song…YET
It’s a question that at times can weigh as heavy as the world.
How many of you have ever been crippled by the question...
What Could Have Been?
I know it’s one that has TRIPPED UP all of us..
*How many of you have ever watched a movie that ENDED - leaving you hanging with - - What could’ve been?
It’s a question - a THOUGHT - that can really wreck us...
But why?
If we think through this THOUGHT - what could’ve been…?
We find that the question RENDERS us - REACHING for …
POTENTIAL - yet never taking hold of it...
Fulfillment - yet never being able to take hold of it
That’s what the question does!
It’s an expression of - UNfulfillment.
What Could’ve Been
And this PHRASE can mean something different for each person...
Maybe a relationship - - what could’ve been
A career path
An illness
An injury
A Loss
What Could’ve Been...
And YEAH - everyone loves a story where the characters find - FULFILLMENT...
But there’s something about that story/movie - where we’re left HANGIN… what could’ve been!
Today - we’ll see the “What Could’ve Been” of Jonathan, Saul’s son.
And if we just think back to last week’s sermon - we’ll begin to maybe see where this is heading today.
Last week - we looked at King Saul’s SON - Jonathan...
And in looking at Jonathan…we saw - FAITH
Jonathan had asked his armor bearer to go up WITH HIM to the Philistine Garrison…and try to OVERTAKE the men there...
AND NOT ONLY THAT - but we saw that Jonathan was willing to DO THIS - taking the most IMPOSSIBLE route to get there...
And so what did we see?
Our main verse last week was this..
We saw that FAITH…begins with...
Conviction of who God is (Jonathan said - The Lord is not restrained (HINDERED) to save)
Expectation of what God can do (PERHAPS God will work for us - the only way we’ll know is to step out and see)
Execution by stepping into the Story of how God works (He saves by many OR by few)
Jonathan did ALL of these when he STEPPED OUT into - the Perhaps of God...
Remember?
Jonathan had said - Let’s go -
And it’s THIS type of FAITH - that is going to play into our sermon today...
I have a feeling - that today’s sermon is gonna hit home for many of us in here today...
It did for me...
Because many, many years ago - I walked thru this very thing.
And I’m sure many of us have done the same.
Today we’ll cover a wide range of text - and so I’ll simply pull out enough of the text to give us the STORY...
And then we’ll see what TRUTH crosses thru the centuries to us today.
Let’s revisit Jonathan’s history as an UP-AND-COMING King...
So Jonathan defeats the garrison at Geba...
What else?
From last week - we heard this...
So Jonathan - AGAIN - kills ANOTHER garrison of the Philistines - about 20 men all together!
This was Jonathan’s RESUME - if you will
AND IF WE COMPARE THESE THINGS (his resume) - to how Saul was operating AS king....
We can make some startling revelations...
What did Saul’s resume look like?
Remember this?
When Saul was anointed?
What else?
We just read of Jonathan defeating the garrison at Geba...
What goes on the resume for this??
Deceit?
What else?
We remember this - - Disobedience…right?
What else?
While JONATHAN was - IN THE GAME - in the action…LIVING by faith...
Defeating the garrison…BY FAITH
Saul was - hiding in the caves...
HANGING out with - those without honor!
These things we had walked through already…but is there anything else?
Anything new?
Pretty clear command from God - right?
Go down there - and wipe out - EVERYTHING!
Is this PAR for the COURSE - with Saul?
Saul DOESN’T LISTEN to the word of God - he does his OWN thing...
AGAIN - disobedience!
Result?
So HERE WE HAVE IT...
a TALE of two men…father and son
QUESTION: Which of these 2 men acted more like a king?
Jonathan!
Is there any doubt in your answer?
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