One must be balanced between law and grace for without one the other will inevitably fall.
A lot of churches, and a lot of ‘Christians’, seem to have an uneasy relationship with grace...when it comes to extending it to others. The Pharisees had the Law, and they lived by it, to extremes. They practiced it to the detriment of others. They were graceless. And Jesus called em’ out on it.
Indeed he did. That's because they strained the gnat and swallowed the camel. In other words, they really didn't care about the morality underpinning the laws, but only cared about the details of it, i.e., they were legalistic, and ignored the spirit of the law. You would have us ignore both the letter and the spirit of the law.
