Stiffneckedness

     Stiffnecked people are proud and rebellious against God. Like so many groups throughout history(Children of Israel, Jews who crucified Christ, Nephites before coming of Christ, Nephites before destruction, Lamanites, etc.) they are those who murmur, forget God, do not understand His teachings but demand things they cannot understand, they follow precepts of men and do not believe in miracles or repentance, they resist the Holy Ghost and prophets and persecute the righteous. In order to remove stiffneckedness, the Lord sends tribulations and stumbling blocks, prophets with plain speech to remind them of death and destruction and keep them in remembrance of God's law. Or you could remove your own stiffneckedness simply  by reading the scriptures, repenting, and purifying your heart. That's the way I choose. Remember if you have a stiffneck and are proud, there is no room for repentance or miracles - the only way you can be healed.

*Ex 32:9 - Children of Israel are a stiffnecked people(Ex 34:9, 33:5, Deut 9:6, Mosiah 3:14, Jer 17:23, Jacob 6:4)

*2 Ne 25:28 - Speak plainly to stiffnecked people so that they cannot misunderstand your testimony, will stand as a witness against them - if you deny Christ, you deny prophets and law

*Hel 5:3 - Nephites were stiffnecked people before coming of Christ

*Hel 9:21, Hel 13:29 - The Lord suffers the stiffnecked but they have an awful destruction waiting for them unless they repent.

*Deut 10:16 - Purifying your heart removes stiff necks

*Deut 31:27 - Stiffneckedness=rebellious, 2 Chron 36:13

*2 Chron 30:8 - Removing stiff necks(service)=entrance into the Lord's sanctuary

*Psalms 75:5 - Speak not with a stiff neck

*Isa 48:4, 1 Ne 20:4 - When the Lord knows your stiffneckedness, He gives you humbling experiences

*Ezek 2:4 - The Lord sends prophets to the stiffnecked

*Acts 7:51 - The stiffnecked resist the Holy Ghost, it works according to faith(Jarom 1:4,) stiffnecked won't search knowledge and they refuse to understand(2 Ne 32:7)

*1 Ne 2:11-12 - Signs of those who are stiffnecked = murmuring, no respect for the spiritual, are unfamiliar with the God who created them and His dealings, pride, costly apparel(Jacob 2:13), led by precepts of men(2 Ne 28:14)

*2 Ne 6:10, 10:5 - Jews who crucified Christ = stiffnecked people - Jacob 4:14, looking beyond the mark, demanding things they can't understand, receive stumbling blocks, quick to do iniquity, slow to remember (Mosiah 13:29)

*Enos 1:22-23 - The Nephites were stiffnecked people - nothing could save them except exceeding harshness, plain speech about the death and destruction that awaited them without repentance, continually keeping them in fear of the Lord, don't believe in miracles or repentance, persecute the righteous, delight in bloodshed, love iniquity(all ways of devil) - Alma 26:24, Alma 20:30, Alma 15:15, Alma 9:5, WofM 1:17

*Alma 37:10 - The Book of Mormon made to convince and help the stiffnecked

*Hel 4:21 - Scriptures can remove your stiffneck

*3 Ne 15:18 - Stiffnecked cannot understand prophets/prophets commanded not to speak to them, they build churches for gain, twist scriptures - Morm 8:33

*D&C 5:8 - Stiffnecked kindle God's anger, revokes his commands -D&C 56:6

*D&C 112:13 - God sends tribulations to unstiffen so He can come and heal. *because if you don't believe in miracles or repentance how can you ever be healed?