Grace and Truth: Complacency or Self-Righteousness?

It’s amazing how far we got, generally speaking, from the Real Jesus Christ. Nowadays, it’s hard to find a church that has the balance between Grace and Truth. Along the way, we got Complacent (grace-only) or Self-Righteous (Truth-only) with some exceptions. Whenever we see Jesus Christ in action, we see a perfect balance between Grace and Truth. When He met a “sinner”, someone who didn’t know God and His Law, Grace came first followed by Truth, when He met a religious person, who knew about God and His Law, Truth came first followed by grace, if they accepted Jesus or not, that was another issue. If you don’t see God’s grace in the Old Testament and you think (like many believers) that the people who lived before Jesus Christ were saved by observing the God’s Law, John 1:17, how about Abel, Abraham, Joseph, etc, who lived before Moses? How were they saved? Through the Grace and Truth called Jesus Christ, they and everyone after Moses, as we read in 1 Thessalonians 5:9. Jesus said in Matthew 5:17. Paul also wrote in Romans 10:4. If we are Grace oriented people or church, we will transform God’s Grace in personal “disgrace” (condemnation), because we will never abandon our own sin or confront people’s sin and will be just like the Corinthian church (1 Corinthians 5). Likewise, if we are a Truth oriented people or church, we will transform the Truth in self-righteousness or half-truth. We will be an angry preacher telling every sinner they are going straight to hell or a complacent preacher allowing iniquity (perpetual sin) to flourish in our lives or churches. Jesus and His Apostles revealed Grace and Truth to the “sinners”, John 5:5-14; John 8:10-11 and Truth and Grace to the ones who knew about God and His Law, 2 Corinthians 7:10; Acts 2:38.
Conclusion: We must learn how to Condemn the Sin (Truth) without Condemning the Sinner (Grace). We must have the balance between Grace and Truth, otherwise we will be sitting in the “judgment seat”, replacing Jesus Christ: Romans 14:10; Psalm 98:9; Acts 17:31.