Remember that everything that happens to Jesus was in the mind of God before the foundation of the world, before the earth, before the words let there be light. His birth, His ministry, all the miracles, everything was planned, purposed, and that included the cross. You will remember the Bible account of Abraham and Isaac, how that Isaac was to be the sacrifice and how his father raised the knife with all intention of completing the thrust down into his only son Isaac–but he was stopped by the voice of the angel of the LORD. We will make some comparison to Jesus with one profound exception. Jesus was the Lamb of God, and no voice from heaven stopped the only Son of the Father in heaven from being the perfect sacrifice. No power stopped the nails, no power stopped the lifting up of the Son of God, and no power stopped His suffering the shame and the agony.
"God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth." (John 4:24)
