How Can The Head Be Predestined And Not The Body?

And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must of necessity suffer many things and be tested and disapproved and rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and be put to death, and after three days rise again [from death]. Mark 8:31

Then taking the Twelve [apostles] aside, He said to them, Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written about the Son of Man through and by the prophets will be fulfilled. For He will be handed over to the Gentiles and will be made sport of and scoffed and jeered at and insulted and spit upon. They will flog Him and kill Him; and on the third day He will rise again. Luke 18:31-33

For the Son of Man is going as it has been determined and appointed, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed and delivered up! Luke 22:22

For I tell you that this Scripture must yet be fulfilled in Me: And He was counted and classed among the wicked (the outlaws, the criminals); for what is written about Me has its fulfillment [has reached its end and is finally settled]. Luke 22:37

He is not here, but has risen! Remember how He told you while He was still in Galilee That the Son of Man must be given over into the hands of sinful men (men whose way or nature is to act in opposition to God) and be crucified and on the third day rise [from death]. Luke 24:6-7

Our Father determined when our Head, Jesus, was going to be born. Where He was going to be born. How He was going to be treated. Who was going to kill Him and How He was going to die. I have never met a brother in the Lord who has any problem whatsoever with these Truths. Yet, when the scriptures bring up the Truth that our Father predestined us as well, so many freak out. Why?

We are one with Jesus, we are His body, flesh of His flesh and bone of His bone, Ephesians 5:30-32. We are now dead and yet we live, yet it is not us who live, it is our Christ within us Who lives, Galatians 2:20. If predestination was the reality for Jesus, why not for those of us who are now one with Him? I believe the reason that so many have a problem with predestination is because of their ego’s and pride and pride comes before a fall. Our Father had a plan and we are His glorious instruments of carrying it out. He knew us before we ever were and He chose to use us in serving the Kingdom and everything that is in it. That is what makes us great, because to be great you have to be a servant, and our Father has a predetermined plan of use for us.