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The stiff-necked Christians       [Acts 7:51-54]     What is stubbornness?  It is dogged determination not to change one’s attitude or position on something (Internet).  This word is used to actively present one's thoughts to other or is used to do what one thinks without listening to others.  The Bible Exodus 32:9 says that the people of Israel are “a stiff-necked people.”  What does it mean?  It is a metaphor for human stubbornness and foolish arrogance that does not obey God.  The word “stiff-necked” means obstinacy.  This reminds us a yoked cow.  When we try to yoke the cow, the cow has to bow its head.  But since the cow doesn't want to, the cow stiffens its neck.   In Acts 7:51 we can see the expression “stiff-necked”.  As we meditate on the four ways in which a straight-necked Christian is doing, I pray that if we are a straight-necked Christian, we will have the opportunity to repe...

  The stiff-necked Christians     “You men who are stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears are always resisting the Holy Spirit; you are doing just as your fathers did.  ‘Which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute?  They killed those who had previously announced the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become; you who received the law as ordained by angels, and yet did not keep it.’  Now when they heard this, they were cut to the quick, and they began gnashing their teeth at him.”  (Acts 7:51-54)                     What is stubbornness?  It is dogged determination not to change one’s attitude or position on something (Internet).  This word is used to actively present one's thoughts to other or is used to do what one thinks without listening to others.  The ...