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Design: Steve Webb | Photo: Eduardo Goody on Unsplash Podcast Introduction Today our reading is Mark 7-8. I’m calling the episode “Heart Condition." Comments on Mark 7 and 8 Have you ever heard the advice: “Follow your heart”, or when pondering a difficult decision, have you been asked, “What does your heart say?”. You probably have.  How does that jive with scripture? Jeremiah 17:9 says, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” What did Jesus say about the heart? Today in Mark chapter 7, verses 14 through 23, Jesus talked about what it is that defiles a person. Jesus was speaking to the crowd here, and what He said here was new information He said, “…there is nothing outside the man which can defile him if it goes into him; but the things which proceed out of the man are what defile the man.” Most of the people in the crowd were Jews, and you can be sure that some who were listening were Jewish leaders, well versed in the Law. And from a v