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now tonight I want you to turn with me
to the 22nd chapter of Matthew’s gospel
and I want to speak on the subject a
cure for heart trouble
then one of them which was a lawyer
asked him a question tempting him and
saying Master which is the great
commandment in the law and Jesus said
unto him Thou shalt love the Lord thy
God with all thy heart and with all thy
soul and with all thy mind
this is the first and the great
commandment and the second is like unto
it thou shall love thy neighbor as
thyself
on these two Commandments hang all the
law and the prophets think of it all the
law and all the prophets hang on these
two Commandments I want to give you the
scripture text again so you can memorize
it it’s Matthew 22 and 37 38 39 and 40.
and it’s no mistake that Jesus made he
did it deliberately he listed the heart
first
to love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart and all thy soul and
all thy strength you know here in
Syracuse as you entered the city on I
690 there’s a huge billboard announcing
that Syracuse is the heart of New York
State and I believe it is it’s the heart
of New York State and President
Roosevelt Franklin Roosevelt and Eldon
Roosevelt were associated worldwide with
Central New York
and Bernard Baruch who was one of the
great philosophers and advises to six
presidents and one of the most brilliant
Jewish leaders in the country and a
friend to me
once was asked by Eleanor Roosevelt said
if my head says one thing in my heart
another which should I follow
and Bernard Baruch said to Mrs Roosevelt
follow your heart
you see your heart is the center of your
life you know if you think about your
heart your physical heart
it beats a hundred thousand Strokes
every 24 hours
it contracts four thousand times an hour
our blood weighs about 25 pounds and all
of it passes through the heart every
four minutes
in Proverbs 23 7 the scripture says as a
man thinketh in his heart
so is he and the heart is used
throughout the Bible
considered far more than a bodily organ
it’s the seed of our emotions
as boys I remember we used to write
initials on trees or on the side of some
Barn our girlfriend’s name and a picture
of the heart
Valentine’s Day is a day for sweethearts
as a and the symbol is a heart when we
become frightened or excited we put our
hands over our hearts at the center of
our emotions when we salute the flag
like we did the other day at The Rotary
Club when they were saluting the flag of
singing The Star-Spangled Banner we’d
put our hands over our hearts
of saying
some of the Great Patriotic things we
put our hands over our hearts the heart
is also the seat of decisive action the
Bible says the fool hath said not in his
mind but in his heart there is no God
and the scripture says in proverbs 4
keep thy heart with all diligence for
out of it are the issues of life
the heart is the seed of belief as well
as the basis of doubt Christ said for
out of the heart precede evil thoughts
and murders and adulteries and
fornications and thefts and false
Witnesses and blasphemies
but you have something wrong with your
heart and I have something wrong with my
heart our hearts are diseased by a
disease that the Bible calls sin
you see the Bible the heart is also the
seed of life the Bible says your heart
will live forever think of it your body
is going to die and go to the grave but
your heart your soul your spirit will
live forever a thousand years from
tonight it’ll still be alive
when God looks at man he doesn’t look at
the color of his skin the kind of
clothes he wears or his social position
the Bible says out of the heart of a
black person or an oriental person or a
white man or woman
out of the heart of the issues of life
and no physician on Earth can tell one
from the other we’re all alike in the
sight of God the Bible says man looks on
the outward appearance but God looks
upon the heart