God subjected himself to men spitting on him, pulling off his beard, scourging him, and then nailing him to a tree, that's what a cross is made of, but then propping him up in front of everybody. Jesus Christ, who is troubled, deeply distressed, in agony, in Gethsemane, this garden, it is springtime, things are coming to life. And he's facing death. And within the Godhead, he also planned the redemption for sinners long before Bethlehem, all the way in the foundations of the world.
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