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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