OCTOBER 9 "WISER THAN 7 WISE MEN YOU ARE"
Headline In Cnn News Tokyo
A Japanese Soldier Who Hunkered Down In The Jungles Of The Philippines For Nearly Three Decades, Refusing To Believe That World War Ii Had Ended, Has Died In Tokyo. Hiroo Onoda Was 91 Years Old.
In 1944, Onoda Was Sent To The Small Island Of Lubang In The Western Philippines To Spy On U.S. Forces In The Area. Allied Forces Defeated The Japanese Imperial Army In The Philippines In The Latter Stages Of The War, But Onoda, A Lieutenant, Evaded Capture.
While Most Of The Japanese Troops On The Island Withdrew Or Surrendered In The Face Of Oncoming American Forces, Onoda Heldout And Hid In The Jungles, Dismissing Messages Saying The War Was Over. Onoda Survived On Food Gathered From The Jungle Or Stolen From Local Farmers. When Farmers Would Bring Him Newspapers With Headlines Declaring “The War War Over” He Said They Were Being Fabricated By The Enemy And Simply Were Not True, He Knew What He Believed. This Went On For Over 29 Years, He Survived In The Jungle.
Eventually Onoda Was Persuaded To Come Out Of Hiding In 1974.
But Only After, He Had Wasted 29 Years Of His Life In The Jungle.
The Novel Is Called “No Surrender” Chronicles The Life of A Japanese Soldier By The Name Of Onoda.
The Mind Is A Dangerous Place, It Must Be Guarded And It Must Be Able To Be Corrected By Sound Counsel And The Word Of God
Then Proverbs Says, Not Me,
The Fool Is Wiser In His Own Eyes Than 7 Wise Men Prov 26:16
This Is A Scripture That Is Addressing The Effects Of A Mind Led Astray
In His Or Her Eyes, They know more, Than 7 Wise Men.
If You’re Sitting Here Tonight, And You’re Saying, “I Hear What You’re Saying Pastor, But I Still Believe What I Believe…”
That’ Dangerous and you could possibly be heading in the direction of having your own “No Surrender Novel” Written About You!
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