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When Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said Exodus 8:15

In the mid-1980s, an Avianca Airlines jet crashed in the mountains of Spain. Investigators reviewing the incident made a startling discovery. Recordings from the black box revealed that several minutes prior to impact, a computer-synthesized voice from the plane's automatic warning system told the flight crew on repeated occasions to "Pull up!" "Pull up!" 

The pilot, evidently thinking that the system was not functioning properly, switched the system off. Minutes later they plowed into the mountain, killing passengers as well as the crew.

In the ancient world, it was said that "all roads lead to Rome".  While this may have been true at that time, it is not true that all religions lead to God and Heaven. When we decide to not listen to what God says about life or deem that His Word is incorrect and make our own rules or decide for ourselves as to what qualifies one for entering God's heaven, we place ourselves above God and become a god unto ourselves.  When we do, we are on a direct course for a lost eternity, separated from God in the place that God's Word, the Bible, calls Hell.

Jesus made it very clear when he said: "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6   And God's Word makes it very clear that "it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God — not by works, so that no one can boast." Ephesians 2:8-9

Just as imperative as it is that pilots listen to their plane's warning system, so is it that we listen to God's "warning system" as found in His Word. 

- mike benson