maturing love (1 John 2:5) through the ministry of the Spirit (1 John 4:12–13); and as we fellowship and serve with the saints, our love will grow more and more (1 John 4:16–19). Our Lord needed a human body so that He could experience what we experience and become our High Priest and Advocate. When our Lord returned to heaven, He took with Him a glorified body that had experienced birth, growth, toil, weariness, hunger and thirst, pain, and death. “For we do