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)

“they were pierced to the heart”
The truth about Jesus Christ is designed to convict unbelievers to the point where God's justice remains pristine whenever He saves them or sentences them to eternal death. God is gracious in both sentences.

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.

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".

Grace
It's easy for God to give HIS grace, but IMPOSSIBLE for Him to give the flesh's version of grace.

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)

Lk 11:46
But He said, “Woe to you lawyers as well! For you weigh men down with burdens hard to bear, while you yourselves will not even touch the burdens with one of your fingers.”

Lk 11:46 [NLT]
“Yes,” said Jesus, “what sorrow also awaits you experts in religious law! For you crush people with unbearable religious demands, and you never lift a finger to ease the burden.”