‘A young man mockingly said to a preacher, “You say that unsaved people carry a great weight of sin…?”

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‘A young man mockingly said to a preacher, “You say that unsaved people carry a great weight of sin. Frankly, feel nothing. How heavy is sin? Ten pounds? Fifty pounds? Eighty pounds? A hundred pounds?” The preacher thought for α moment and gently replied, “If you laid α four hundred-pound weight on a corpse, would it feel the load?” The young man was quick say, “Of course not; it’s dead.” The preacher replied, person who doesn’t know Christ is equally dead. And though the load is great, he feels none of it.”‘