John Piper, Brothers, We Are Not Professionals, Bethlehem Baptist Church, 2002. p. 114.
I must feel the truth that once I was as close to hell as I am to the chair I am sitting on – even closer. Its darkness, like vapor, had entered my soul and was luring me down. Its views were my views. I was a son of hell (Matthew 23:15), a child of the Devil (John 8:44) and of wrath (Ephesians 2:3). I belonged to the viper’s brood (Matthew 3:7), without hope and without God (Ephesians 2:12). I must believe that just as a rock climber, having slipped, hangs over the deadly cliff by his fingertips, so I once hung over hell and was a heartbeat away from eternal torment. I say it slowly, eternal torment!
John Piper, Brothers, We Are Not Professionals, Bethlehem Baptist Church, 2002. p. 114.