Straight Talk About a Pure Heart

Jesus unmasking of the superficial standards of what passed for righteousness among the rank and file of practicing believers of his day, continues.  Having exposed the attitudinal sins of anger and hatred, he now turns to the hidden realm of the thoughts and desires of the heart.  What someone has aptly described as your private world. It is an area of our life usually reserved only for ourselves, completely unknown to anyone else, and therefore seldom acknowledged or discussed.  But as we’ll see this morning, Jesus took direct aim at that last bastion of secretness, openly exposing it for exactly what it is, in Matthew 5:27-30, in a message entitled, “Straight Talk About a Pure Heart”.