"Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise, (or as it means to crush) Him". God the Father took pleasure, delighted in slaying His Son; it was His will to do this…. HOW can this be? HOW do we process this? Well, it was the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, carried out at the hands of wicked men, but all according to God's will to make an end of sins, and to reconcile sinners to God. John 10:11, Zechariah 13:7 Even knowing this truth, STILL, it is hard to process this; it's one thing to offer up your own Son, it's quite another thing to be pleased by it. |