What Did Jesus Say About . . . John 1:1-5

 
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. - John 1:1-5

In the quaint commonness of a neighbor’s suggestion that someone who is not a believer is a “very nice person,” abounds one of the most profoundly Satanic lies ever perpetrated by the Adversary. Of course the unbelieving individual could be considered “nice” in the worldly view held by other unbelievers but never in the Biblical view - “As it is written: ‘There is none righteous, no, not one; there is none who understands; there is none who seeks after God. They have all turned aside; they have together become unprofitable; there is none who does good, no, not one.’” - Romans 3:10-12. It’s me, it’s you. It’s he and she, they and them, it’s all of us - we are all SINNERS! And yes, that includes the nice old ladies next door. But what of the person who says that he or she is a believer? “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.’” - Matthew 7:21. Doing God’s will is requisite. We must all be about our Father’s business!
“Of course,” you say, “but no one practices their faith in God perfectly.” Sanctification is fraught with mistakes. True, but it is not an occasional stumble or fall from grace that condemns us; it is a constant and careless sinful life-style which does so! We all trip over our human weaknesses from time to time but we are not to make excuses for our foibles. But neither are we to throw ourselves at the mercy of the judgement of unbelievers. We admit our error; repent . . . and continue in our walk with Christ. The critical eye of the unbeliever will find something inherently wrong even when we walk the righteous walk. It is God’s judgement we must fear, not the neighbor’s.
So let us return to the question being considered. Indeed, what has Jesus said about certain sins? Need we find a soliloquy by Christ on the subject of robbery, murder, adultery, and every other specific sin to have a written document of Christ’s objections to those unlisted sins that we, by our worldly natures, would most like to consider “acceptable?” The answer is a resounding, “No!” The reason for this is that Christ, as a member of the Triune Godhead has spoken to us through the writers of the Bible. Their words are not their own but God’s. Therefore every word from “In the beginning . . .” (Genesis 1, First page) to “The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen.” (Revelation 22:21 Last page) are the words of God and because they are the words of God that includes Jesus Christ. Christ has spoken to us about everything. Every word of the Bible is Christ’s word to us. Let us defend the veracity of Christ’s words in season and out, regardless of what our very nice neighbor’s might think!