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Curated Sermon Illustrations from John 12
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The Poison Garden
In the north of England, there's a beautiful garden. It's full of delicate wildflowers, extravagant blossoms, verdant climbing vines, and tumbling water features. Like so many gems of English horticulture, Alnwick Garden, has much to delight the visitors who flock there every year.
However, there's one part of the garden that is more famous than all the rest. Forbidding black iron gates bar visitors from entry. What's behind the gates looks unremarkable to the untutored eye. More plants. Beautiful, perhaps, but not more so than those outside the gate. Why bar the public from this corner of the garden?
The gate offers the answer. Over the black gate, in all-caps white letters reads, "THE POISON GARDEN." Both gates are emblazoned with a skull and crossbones, with the words, "These plants can kill."
The poison garden features roughly one hundred of earth's most toxic flora. The rules for guests: absolutely no inhaling aromas, making contact, or sampling. In spite of the warning, each season, some unwary visitors disregard these cautions, leading to multiple fainting spells from the poisonous scents.
What visitors are often surprised to learn is that many of these poisonous specimens can be found in their own gardens or parks, alongside those they cherish. Their alluring beauty all the while hides danger/
...and all of it begins with a tiny seed.
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