I wonder what the big moments in your life have been. I think most of us have them, and

the Lord Jesus was no exception. And so this week on Things Unseen, I want to think about

a few of those moments in Jesus' life. During the year we've actually touched on one

or two of them already, and we'll no doubt do that again. But this week we're going

to think together about a few of them. If you're anything like me, the older you get,

the more it strikes you that there are some moments and events in your life that seem

to loom especially large. Some of them are crisis points, or tumbling points, or moments

of special accomplishment maybe, or sometimes moments of loss and pain. And you can remember

some of the details of those moments years later, even when earlier on in the day you

couldn't remember where you'd put your car keys. There's just something about particular

events that make the major chapter headings in the story of our lives. And all this is

simply part of what it means to be human. And I mention it to remind us that our Lord Jesus

must have had similar memories too. Certainly he had big moments in his life, moments

that the preacher G Campbell Morgan described in a book entitled The Crisis of the Christ.

And in a way, as I say, that's obvious. But in our lives, it underlines that God has a unique

plan and purpose for us. And the same was true, of course, of our Lord Jesus. And he experienced

the whole of it in our human nature. The logos, the word of God, became flesh and dwelt among us,

says John. And that's magnificent theology. The one divine person of the logos was with God

and was God. But he also became flesh and dwelt among us. And not all moments in his life were

the same, any more than they are in our lives. I think I've referred before on things unseen to

what's called the calcedonian definition of 451 AD. Those fifth century theologians who wrote

the definition said that the Son of God is, quote, acknowledged in two natures,

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