It is a basic question: Why do people do bad things? The religious leaders of Jesus’ day taught that people become bad (“defiled”) when they do something wrong. However, as we will see today, Jesus taught that evil is not discovered as much as it is revealed.

Scripture references: Mark 7:14-23, Matthew 15:10-20, Matthew 5:48, Leviticus 11-15 and 18-20, Daniel 1:8-16