New Lutheran Quote of the Day

Jesus bids us in these words to come to Him and bring our heavy load, to give over all that laboring to justify ourselves, all that yoke of the Law, to Him.  He relieves us of all that.  What we cannot bear, Jesus bears for us.  He carries that yoke for us, fulfills the Law for it.  Its condemnation on our sin He bears for us, for on Him is laid the burden of the iniquity of us all.  The death for sin Jesus dies in our place.  The forsakenness of God, which is for our sin, He takes in our place, for He is the sin-bearer for us all, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.  -- Dr. Norman Nagel, Selected Sermons, p. 175