Good morning and welcome to State Street Community Church. We’re glad you’re here — whether you’re joining us in the room or watching from home, you belong in this conversation.

Today we continue our series You’ve Heard It Said, walking through Jesus’s teaching in the Sermon on the Mount. This week we focus on one of the most candid passages in Scripture — Matthew 5:27–30 — where Jesus shifts the conversation about desire and faithfulness from behavior to the heart.

This isn’t a sermon about rules. It’s a sermon about formation — about what shapes us, what we’re really looking for, and why the good news is better than we’ve been told.