The last chapter of life is not retirement.

No, something greater is to come, and we need to start planning for something far beyond

the reach of our 401Ks.

It's a suitable word from John Piper to upper class Americans, and it's a suitable word

to prisoners serving life sentences at Angola, the largest maximum security prison in the

US.

That's the setting for today's clip, Angola, a Louisiana maximum security prison home

to 6,300 inmates, only murderers, rapists, armed robbers, and habitual felons.

The average sentence is 88 years with 3,200 people in one place serving life sentences,

90% of the inmates die here.

John Piper traveled to Louisiana and preached in Angola's chapel on November 20, 2009.

About 800 prisoners packed in to hear a message from him on John 6 on Jesus' feeding of

the 5,000 and his walk on water.

I preached with all my heart to those who could fit in the chapel, Piper recounted later,

I pulled no punches.

Hundreds of other prisoners heard the sermon through closed circuit television, including

those on death row like Gerald Bordelen, a convicted rapist and child killer we met in

episode 1445.

Piper pulled no punches, and the result is one of my all time favorite sermon.

Here's the clip from the closing of that Angola sermon in Pastor John's final spoken

please to Gerald.

Have a listen.

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