Serendipity

What grabs your attention about serendipity quickly transforms into a powerful warning against compromising God's destiny for our lives. Drawing from the dramatic story of Samson, Pastor Dave illuminates how seemingly innocent choices to revisit past sins - what he calls "dead things" - can derail our divine purpose. Through vivid imagery of Samson finding honey in the lion's carcass, he illustrates how the enemy disguises destruction with temporary sweetness. The pastor's urgent message resonates: God's supernatural power through the Holy Spirit gives us the ability to overcome any "roaring lion" in our path, but we must choose to walk away from old temptations rather than return to inspect their carcasses. With both pastoral compassion and bold truth-telling, he challenges the congregation to recognize where they're compromising their "serendipity" - God's divine orchestration of blessed circumstances - and instead fully embrace the destiny God has planned. His passionate call to action urges listeners to surrender those "honey-filled carcasses" at the altar and commit to walking in God's freedom and purpose.Proverbs 16:9 NIV. In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps.Judges 14:5 So Samson went down to Timnah with his father and mother, and came to the vineyards of Timnah. Now to his surprise, a young lion came roaring against him.  Vs 6 And the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and he tore the lion apart as one would have torn apart a young goat, though he had nothing in his hand.Vs 7 Then he went down and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well. 8 After some time, when he returned to get her, he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion.And behold, a swarm of bees and honey were in the carcass of the lion. 9 He took some of it in his hands and went along, eating. When he came to his father and mother, he gave some to them, and they also ate. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey out of the carcass of the lion.