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She Took Their Sting

Death Death (Spiritual) Motherhood

Source: Arizona mother stung over 75 times by swarm of bees but her "quick thinking" saves kids BY GINA MARTINEZ, published MAY 1, 2023, CBS NEWS

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Contributed By: Illustration Exchange | Date Posted: 2023-06-03

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:55 ; 1 Peter 2:24

Author: Illustration Exchange
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ILLUSTRATION

CBS News reports:

Firefighters responded to a call about a bee attack after a mother and her two children were swarmed and attacked by bees while doing a family photo shoot, Arizona Fire & Medical Authority said in a statement on Facebook. 

Fire officials said the mother's "quick thinking" saved her kids from being stung when she put them in the car as she took the brunt of the stings. 

"She was transported to the hospital with over 75 stings but thankfully has recovered," fire officials said. 

APPLICATION

A mother's love is fierce, willing to take all the pain, all the trauma, and even the threat of death to protect the children she loves.

How much more fierce is the love of the Savior, taking all the pain, all the trauma, and not just the threat of death, but death itself to protect His children from eternal eternal separation from God?

“Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” (1 Corinthians 15:55, NIV).

“He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.” (1 Peter 2:24, NIV).

A Door in the Graveyard

Eternal Life Death Victory

Source: PARIS UNDERGROUND By ETTA SHIBER, published 1943

Contributed By: Mark McClelland | Date Posted: 2023-05-02

Scripture: John 5:24 ; 1 John 2:25

Author: Joe Mckeever
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In 1943, Etta Shuber wrote the book PARIS UNDERGROUND, in which she talks about being trapped inside Paris when Hitler's storm troopers entered in the Spring of 1940. The Germans quickly shut down the country, guarded the borders, and refused to let anyone leave.

However, a small border town saw its population diminishing rapidly.

The Nazis found that the town cemetery straddled the border, and that the locals had opened up an ancient gate in the rear of the graveyard wall. Every time mourners entered the cemetery for a funeral, they kept right on walking out the back gate, emerging into the land of freedom and life.

APPLICATION

When Jesus died on the cross, He bore the burden and paid the cost of our sins. When He rose from the grave, He blew out a door in the back of the cemetery.

As believers, though we may be sojourners here in the land of the dead; we don't linger. We keep right on walking through that valley of the shadow of death until we emerge into the land of the eternally living and forever free. 

"Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life" (John 5:24, ESV).

"And this is the promise that he made to us—eternal life" (1 John 2:25, ESV).

Runner's Cause Of Death: Struck By An Airplane

Repentance Justice Death

Source: preacherpollard.com

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Contributed By: Neal Pollard | Date Posted: 2021-02-22

Scripture: Luke 13:3

Author: Neal Pollard
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Running certainly has its hazards, but never has aircraft been one of them.  But, that is exactly what caused the death of Robert Gary Jones who was running on the beach on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.  The 38-year-old husband who was the father of two apparently never heard the single-engine plane, which had lost its propeller, as it made an emergency landing on the beach.  The pilot had engine troubles and was trying to get to the Hilton Head airport.  The coroner’s office said that this type of plane, an Experimental Lancair IV-P, is so quiet that Jones might not have heard it even without his earphones on (news information via WTOC.com).

 

APPLICATION

Whenever such a random, tragic act occurs, we are baffled.  It certainly points out that life could not be more uncertain and we cannot possibly anticipate the future (cf. Jas. 4:13). We might be tempted to wonder what this man did wrong to die such an unlikely death.  Jones may have been an evil man, but he could just as easily have been an upstanding citizen and model husband and father.

Jesus warns against such thinking that would see this as an act of divine judgment or punishment.  Luke 13:1-5 says, “Now on the same occasion, there were some present who reported to Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. And Jesus said to them,’ Do you suppose that these Galileans were greater sinners than all other Galileans because they suffered this fate? I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. Or do you suppose that those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them were worse culprits than all the men who live in Jerusalem? I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.’”  

His message is universal in scope.  Everybody has the same individual responsibility.  We must live holy lives, repenting of the sin in our lives.  We may suffer some terrible earthly tragedy that is in no way brought on by our own sinfulness.  In a fallen world, these kinds of things occasionally happen.  Our task is to live ready for eternity in every moment!

The Generous Thief

God's Promises Death Resurrection

Contributed By: Stephen Kingsley | Date Posted: 2019-05-01

Scripture: John 11:25 ; Job 1:21

Author: Stephen Kingsley
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The Town That Banned Death

Death Sin Nature Victory

Contributed By: Illustration Exchange | Date Posted: 2018-04-25

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:54

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Death Makes An Appearance

Death Denial Assurance

Contributed By: Illustration Exchange | Date Posted: 2017-11-09

Scripture: Psalms 23:4 ; 1 Corinthians 15:55

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Cancer Research Confirms the Curse

Sin Death Salvation

Contributed By: Rod Crowell | Date Posted: 2017-07-11

Scripture: Genesis 2:17 ; Galatians 3:13

Author: Brian Thomas
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No Grave Can Stop Him!

Death Revenge Second Coming

Contributed By: Illustration Exchange | Date Posted: 2017-06-19

Scripture: Ezekiel 44:3 ; 1 Corinthians 15:55

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Roller Coaster Lines

Death Fear Judgment of Believers

Contributed By: Thomas Bevers | Date Posted: 2016-10-26

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:54 ; 2 Corinthians 5:10

Author: Thomas Bevers
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Death and Dying Quotes (part 1)

Death and Dying Quotes Death Mortality

Contributed By: Illustration Exchange | Date Posted: 2016-09-27

Author: Various
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