Was Jesus going to the cross a case of God losing control?

Les explains that the cross was not God losing control. The God of all creation, full of majesty and power, could have destroyed the whole human race or the planet with just a wink, but He did not. Instead, He allowed Roman soldiers to nail His Son to a Roman cross and put Him to death, and God did not stop Him. He spared not His own Son but delivered Him up of His own volition. This was predetermined before anything was ever created that Christ would go to that cross. Les stresses that everything rests on this fact. He also warns that any presentation of salvation that omits the cross, Christ's death, and His resurrection is bypassing the Gospel. The Gospel is that Christ died, was buried, and rose again; God foreordained that He had to die for the sins of mankind, and He did die.