It is glorious to bask in the present and future reality of what we have in Messiah. But like Paul, perhaps it’s good to never get too far from the past we’ve been saved from in the first place.
How can anyone know if what they’re “hearing” from God is actually from Him if they don’t even know much of what He has already given us to “hear” in His Word?
The cross signifies the complete and absolute devotion of Messiah to the will of His Father for mankind. Yeshua knew that He must fulfill the purpose for which He was sent: death on a cross.