Woe to the Stiff-Necked

                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and all its towns the entire calamity that I have declared against it, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.’…”     --  Jeremiah 19:14,15

“Stiff-necked” means self-willed, and stubbornly opinionated: people who won’t listen to God, or obey Him.  People who defiantly continue in their own way even when it brings disaster on them, as it always does.  People too proud to admit to God, or to themselves, that they’ve done anything wrong, and repent.

To the stiff-necked, God says “I am about to bring a calamity upon this place, at which the ears of everyone that hears of it will tingle.” (Jeremiah 19:3b)  The entire chapter is a catalog of the horrific results God promises will come upon the stiff-necked.

This is a time for Christians in America to repent.  This is not a time to be stiff-necked.