There’s a flower that grows in South America and it’s called the touching flower. You can touch the petals and it will immediately close, and after little while it will slowly open back up. You can touch it again and it will close just a little slower, and then after a while it will open back up. You can touch it again and the more you touch it the slower it closes, and the slower it opens. You can touch it to death. In just a matter of minutes that flower will wilt on the stem and die because you touched it to death.

The touching flower is like sin: Touch in long enough and “you will die” (“the wages of sin is death,” Rom. 6:23).

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