People are imperfect, we are all prone to mistakes, including your pastor.

The only way for you to be perfectly represented before God was for Jesus to become God incarnate: that

that Jesus would inaugurate, in which His covenant people would now be saved by the fact that Jesus perfectly

by God the Father and has been anointed with the Holy Spirit to be our chief prophet and teacher who perfectly

in ourselves when even the best things we've done in our lives are as but "filthy rags" before our perfectly

command to not "put our hope in wealth, which is so uncertain" is directed squarely not just at the one-percenters

And so God decreed  to give to Christ those chosen for salvation,  and to call and draw them effectively cross, conquering death three days later as He rose from the grave, and fulfilling your obligation to perfectly

Paul is perceptive of what common ground he can build off of to pique the skeptics’ interest, but then

It's not that He's not part of us - He very much is, so much so that as a man He perfectly represents

But instead John used a lesser used Greek word that perfectly captures the nuance of the Aramaic words Most of experience immediate physical (and even mental) effects if we miss a meal (any of you get hangry