OUTLINE:

Don’t Be Naive
Using Jesus' name does not make Him one's savior. Just because a person says they "believe in Jesus" doesn't mean they are saved. God must save them - people do not save themselves by jumping over a bar they have set.

Self-Justification
People often use the Word of God to justify their own ungodliness. Satan certainly suggested this in the Garden of Eden (Gen 3) and tempted Jesus to do so in the wilderness (Mt 4).

How many "Jesuses" do you think exist in this world?
Answer: untold numbers (though there's only one true Son of God) (e.g., 2Co 11:4)

Who Gets To Define…?
Man doesn't get to define who Jesus is or what He stands for. Jesus did a great job at defining Himself (see Holy Scripture). The problem is that some aren’t interested in the Truth.

Who Gets To Define…?
Example:  does godly love respect the privacy of man?…or is it something distinctly different? Does God love the world so much that He allows man to save himself on his own terms?…or is His salvation something distinctly different? Is "grace" different in each of these scenarios??? - YES!!! (that's the problem)

Ac 2:37
Now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brethren, what shall we do?”

Ac 2:38
Peter said to them, “Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Repentance IS Grace!
It is gracious to give a spiritually dead person the opportunity to turn from their sinfulness, especially when they are unable to do so without God's help.

Repentance, Grace, & Love
It wouldn't be very loving, or gracious for that matter, if Jesus said "repent" but God never convicted a person first. There'd be nothing known to the individual that even warranted repentance. This would be cruel (God is not cruel), given their salvation depends on it.

Repentance, Grace, & Love
It is divine love to convict a person regarding their need to repent, for salvation mandates a turning from the self life (a "denying self", as Jesus would say).

Repentance, Grace, & Love
It would be the exact OPPOSITE of love, cruel even, for God to say to a person, "repent" when they had no idea what to repent from in the first place!

Repentance, Grace, & Love
God’s grace always provides the means to accomplish His demands!

What Love Isn’t
God's love isn't a license to sin or live a sinful lifestyle while claiming Jesus as Lord. God loves enough to inform man of his sinfulness, but He's not willing to accommodate sinful flesh as a function of some non-Biblical form of "grace".

Satan’s Strategy
The surefire way to pervert the Gospel is to pervert the grace of god.

The House On Sand
Some people's self-esteem is founded on false grace. They have founded it upon a perverted grace that says, "God is so gracious that He turns a blind eye to your self-fulfilling lifestyle, and that this is divine love." This is a lie!

The Letter vs. the Spirit
There exists right and wrong, righteousness and unrighteousness, light and darkness, good and evil. The "spirit" of the Bible embodies the prior. Fleshly lawyering interprets the letter of the law instead of depending wholly upon the Holy Spirit's interpretation. (e.g., Jn 5:39)

Balance Statement
This isn’t about pointing fingers like legalistic morons, this is about saving souls!!!

False Profession Is a Very Real Danger!
The life of a believer stands in stark contrast to the false professor. (1Jn 5)

Grace
It's "not burdensome" (1Jn 5:3) to do as Jesus, His apostles, and His Spirit commands - to "repent". It's not disrespectful of one's so-called privacy to "expose" their "unfruitful deeds of darkness" (Eph 5:11); rather, it is a real show of divine love!