thrice repeated cry, "Not my will, but thine, be done," He embraced the Cross--the logical terminus of His life of utter self-renunciation.  But no man took His life from Him.  He was a willing victim, "was willing to be spat upon, willing to be reviled, willing to be classed with criminals, willing to hang in ignominy before a jeering rabble upon the accursed tree" (Huegel). "Behold the lamb of God that beareth away the sin of the world" (John 1:29 R.V.). Did He come to save others?  "Himself he cannot (and would not) save." Forsaken by His friends, and derided by His enemies, and under the curse of our disobedience-yea, obedient unto such a death He was willing.  The last Adam was undoing the willful first.  It is eternally true, then, that "he who does not welcome the Cross does not welcome God."