The very thought is appalling!

(J. C. Philpot, "Alienation and Reconciliation") "Once you were alienated from God and were  His enemies, separated from Him by your  evil thoughts and actions." Colossians 1:21 All man's sins, comparatively speaking, are but 'motes in the sunbeam' compared with this giant sin of enmity against God. A man may be given up to fleshly indulgences; he may sin against his fellow creature—may rob, plunder, oppress, even kill his fellow man. But viewed in a spiritual light, what are they compared with the dreadful, the damnable sin of enmity against the great and glorious Majesty of heaven? This is a sin that lives beyond the grave! Many sins, though not their consequences, die with man's body, because they are bodily sins. But this is a sin that goes into eternity with him, and flares up like a mighty volcano from the very depths of the bottomless pit! Yes, it is the very sin of devils, which therefore binds guilty man down with them in the same eternal chains, and consigns him to the same place of torment! O the unutterable enmity of the heart against the living God! The very thought is appalling! How utterly ruined, then, how wholly lost must that man's state and case be, who lives and dies as he comes into the world . . .   unchanged,   unrenewed,   unregenerated! I will not dwell longer upon this gloomy subject, on this sad exhibition of human wickedness and misery, though it is needful we should know it for ourselves, that we should have a taste of this bitter cup in our own most painful experience, that we may know the sweetness of the cup of salvation when presented to our lips by free and sovereign grace. Nothing but the mighty power of God Himself can ever turn this enemy into a friend! "Once you were alienated from God and were  His enemies, separated from Him by your  evil thoughts and actions, yet now He has  brought you back as His friends. He has done  this through His death on the cross in His own  human body. As a result, He has brought you  into the very presence of God, and you are holy  and blameless as you stand before Him without  a single fault." Colossians 1:21-22 link