Luke 1:35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. (KJV)
Of John the Baptist God said he would be filled with the Holy Spirit. Couldn't a man, filled with the Holy Spirit of God, fulfill the law and be made a perfect sacrifice? No. Even with complete filling of the Holy Spirit, man's heart is still deceitful above all things and desperately wicked (Jer 17:9).
I don't know much about John's life: how closely he walked with God, what sins he committed, what his strengths and weaknesses were. I know he was used mightily, and though he was filled with the Spirit of God even in the womb, yet he was not without sin.
God wouldn't accept "approximately" right. He wouldn't allow something to be "close enough". He loved us too much to give us second best, as good as second best was. Oh, praise God! He gave is the best! He didn't have to. He had no obligation. The thing that compelled Him was his love for is. How incredible that is. "He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for is all." Romans 8:32a.
God, grant me the incredible pleasure of understanding the depth of that truth more deeply every day.
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