"And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, All power is given to me in heaven and in earth. Go you therefore, and TEACH all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: TEACHING them to observe all things whatever I have commanded you: and, see, I am with you always, even to the end of the world. Amen."
Yes, all that hard and dangerous work such as is in reasoning of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, and calling souls to (Acts 24:25) the lost to "turn from these vanities unto the living God" (Acts 14:15) - and the persecution that resulted - could have been avoided. But today the 1st commandment for some is "thou shalt not be rejected" and thus the "focus on God's love" and that they are already forgiven while those who reason as Paul did are made out to be Pharisees!
Such would surely Jesus for telling people to cut their arm off if it caused them to sin, and warning of judgment if they did not repent, for how loving and politically incorrect is that?
But the cry today is "speak unto us smooth things." (Isaiah 30:10) And i need more of a heart for holiness reproof.