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W.D. Frazee Sermons Ministry

W.D. Frazee

Murmurs Indicate Heart Trouble- Part 1

That the human heart, I mean this physical organ here in the chest, is receiving more attention than perhaps any other time in the history of the world.

Because heart disease heads the list as the leading cause of death in the United States and in many other countries.

I'm not going to study all those reasons tonight, but I'd like to get some lessons from it.

You know, I read a statement when I was in 1 of the offices of the medical college the other day.

Now this sounds like a fantastic statement, but it was in the news of the American Medical Association.

It said that a report indicated that research work now being done would result in soon being able to make artificial hearts.

And that the business of making artificial hearts would eventually be the number 2 industry in the United States, coming only after the making of automobiles.

But if anything remotely like that were to happen, it would really be something, as we say, wouldn't it, Frank?

This only highlights what I've just said, that the human heart is receiving a great deal of attention today.

Now, Brother Fields, I wish you'd come up here.

And what's that good for, that stethoscope?

Doctors and those who help them use this instrument in dealing with the heart and the circulatory system as well as with the lungs.

But just now we're thinking about the heart.

Now, when a doctor puts this instrument on and puts it over the heart, of course there are many things that he's listening for.

Brother, could you just tell us some of the things that the doctor might find as he listens through that stethoscope?

Well, 1 thing he notices is the sound of the beat of the percussion which would indicate the force of the heartbeat.

Another thing that you might hear is what we call a murmur, which is sort of an undertone that surfs along with the beat.

Or another term that's used is fibrillation, which is a fluttering of the heart.

Number of these indicate damage in certain areas of the heart.

Maybe a larger, heavier pounding might indicate an enlargement of the muscles of the heart.

Have you ever had your heart listen to me?

Yes, most of you had your heart listen to.

Well, I'm not going to study all the different things about the heart tonight.

But I would like to study with you heart murmurs, because murmurs may indicate heart trouble.

A heart murmur doesn't sound like a cannon going off, does it, brother?

It doesn't even sound like a barking dog or 1 of these coyotes that we hear at night.

A murmur may be rather quiet, but murmurs indicate something.

And it's what those murmurs indicate that I'd like to have you think about tonight, and also what to do about it.

Because the great physician has his stethoscope, He's available for a physical, mental, and spiritual examination for those who are willing to submit to his scrutiny.

Let's turn to 1 Corinthians the 10th chapter verses 10 and 11.

It's talking about the children of Israel back there in the desert who for 40 years were on their way from Egypt to Canaan.

And 1 of the things that delayed them was this business of murmurs.

Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

Now all these things happened unto them for in sample, and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come." What was all this written down for?

For us, right down here at the very end of time.

Do you mean that murmuring can indicate a condition that means destruction precisely.

Are there any murmurs that the great physician would detect with his stethoscope?

Now Paul is speaking here of some experiences that took place all along the way in the desert.

Exodus, the 15th chapter verses 23 and 24.

Now the 22nd verse said that for 3 days they hadn't found any water.

Maybe some of you know about some water problems.

Well, the 24th verse says, The people murmured against Moses, saying, what shall we drink?

3 days they didn't have any water and then they got bitter water.

Well now, it's about time to murmur after 3 days if nobody's done anything, isn't it?

No, because we've just read in 1 Corinthians 10, neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured.

God wrote down what they did not so we could copy them, but so that we wouldn't copy them.

They were in samples of the sad results of murmuring.

Well, God gave them some water, he pointed out a tree to take care of the bitterness, and of course the people were happy.

But now the 16th chapter, The very next chapter, the second verse, what are they doing again?

The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

What were they murmuring about this time?

Let me tell you friends, when you touch the water and touch the food of people, you really touch something.

And the whole congregation were doing what?

17th chapter, they ran out of water again.

Third verse, And the people thirsted there for water, and the people murmured against Moses and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

The next verse said, things were so bad they were about ready to stone Moses.

3 chapters, and every chapter, what do you hear?

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