While Christ was with His Father from the beginning, He was privy to the offering that His Father would ask of Him. It was not just His obedience, but as God's plan for humanity came into focus, it would require obedience in the lives of others, Joseph, Mary, the shepherds, and the kings all that responded to obedience. In all, it must have been an obedience of their hearts! Today such obedience is being offered to the body of Christ.