Psalms 75:5

Speak not with a stiff neck.

Stiff necks

The text is a figure of that pride, stubbornness, or wilful disobedience which refuses to yield to rightful and loving authority.

I. Let me indicate the classes of persons who are morally and spiritually stiffnecked

1. If you resist the conviction of sin, you are stiffnecked.

2. You have shown your stiff neck by despising faithful warnings.

3. Or, it may be, that you have rejected the counsel of godly parents.

4. Your stubbornness in tribulation shows that you have a stiff neck towards God.

II. Let me exhort you to repentance. Let the love of God draw you to turn to Him. (W. Birch.)