Free will

Something that the Father did not deny us, He could not deny His only-begotten Son, and that is free will. Christ was not secretly arrested, falsely accused and unjustly tried as if He could not have saved Himself, but He went freely and voluntarily to His life-giving death. He permitted Himself to be captured and killed—even secular text books are forced to describe it in these terms—of His own free will, and following Him we still have free will also.

Though we call ourselves His bondsmen and servants, He calls us His friends, and even more than that, He gives us power to become children of His Father.

This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. These things I command you, so that you will love one another.
John 15:12-17 ESV
The verse in blue is written on the gospel book held by Christ in the icon above.

…to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
John 1:12-13 ESV