His sublime self-denial

Through the pride that caused his disobedience, man severed his allegiance to God. The sovereign Lord, coequal with the Father, humbled Himself to the dust, becoming lovingly submissive "even to the death of the Cross."  Man willed to be absolutely self-sufficient, and God, to compensate for His creature's gross insubordination, nation, was "mocked and scourged and spat upon"; He "endured the Cross, despising its shame."

The necessary sequel of man's pride and disobedience was his self-indulgence. Man wills to make himself his only master; he wills to follow the tendencies of nature; he wills to extinguish the light of God in his soul. 

To satisfy for man's yielding to sinful pleasure, the divine Son became "a man of sorrows and acquainted with infirmity ... a leper, and as one struck by God and afflicted." He was "led as a sheep to the slaughter," was "dumb as a lamb before his shearer and ... cut off out of the land of the living. How criminal was man's craven carnality, how perfect Christ's atonement through His sublime self-denial!

John A. Kane. How to Make a Good Confession: A Pocket Guide to Reconciliation With God (Kindle Locations 405-411). Kindle Edition.