SELF-WILL AND STUBBORNNESS CHARACTERISTIC OF THE WICKED PRO 7:11 She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: 2PE 2:10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. EXHIBITED IN GOING BACKWARD AND NOT FORWARD JER 7:24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. EXHIBITED IN HARDENING OF THE HEART 2CH 36:13 And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the Lord God of Israel. EXHIBITED IN HARDENING OF THE NECK NEH 9:16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments, EXHIBITED IN REBELLING AGAINST GOD DEU 31:27 For I know you rebellion, and you stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against the Lord; and how much more after my death? PSA 78:8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God. EXHIBITED IN REFUSING TO HEARKEN TO GOD PRO 1:24 Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; EXHIBITED IN REFUSING TO HEAREN TO THE MESSENGERS OF GOD 1SA 8:19 Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us; JER 44:16 As for the word that you hast spoken unto us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken unto thee. ZEC 7:11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. EXHIBITED IN REFUSING TO HEARKEN TO PARENTS DEU 21:18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: DEU 21:19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; EXHIBITED IN REFUSING TO RECEIVE CORRECTION DEU 21:18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: JER 5:3 O Lord, are not thine eyes upon the truth? you hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; you hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return. JER 7:28 But you will say unto them, This is a nation that obeys not the voice of the Lord their God, nor receives correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth. EXHIBITED IN REFUSING TO WALK IN THE WAYS OF GOD NEH 9:17 And refused to obey, neither were mindful of you wonders that you didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but you art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsook them not. PSA 78:10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; ISA 42:24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the Lord, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law. EXHIBITED IN RESISTING THE/ HOLY GHOST ACT 7:51 you stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. EXHIBITED IN WALKIMG IN THE COUNSELS OF AN EVIL HEART JER 7:24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. JER 23:17 They say still unto them that despise me, The Lord hath said, you shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walks after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you. SELF WILL AND STUBBORNESS FORBIDDEN 2CH 30:8 Now be you not stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the Lord, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the Lord your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you. PSA 75:5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck. PSA 95:8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: SELF WILL AND STUBBORNESS HEINOUSNESS OF *** GROSSLY WICKED OR REPREHENSIBLE; ABOMINABLE; ODIOUS; VEIL *** 1SA 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected you from being king. GOD KNOWS SELF WILL AND STUBBORNESS ISA 48:4 Because I knew that you art obstinate, and you neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; SELF WILL AND STUBBORNESS ILLUSTRATED PSA 32:9 Be you not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, l they come near unto thee. JER 31:18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn you me, and I shall be turned; for you art the Lord my God. MINISTERS SHOULD BE WITHOUT SELF WILL AND STUBBORNESS TIT 1:7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; MINISTERS SHOULD PRAY THAT THEIR PROPLE MAY BE FORGIVEN EXO 34:9 And he said, If now I have found grace in you sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance. DEU 9:27 Remember you servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin: MINISTERS SHOULD WARN THEIR PEOPLE AGAINST HEB 3:7 Wherefore as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if you will hear his voice, HEB 3:8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: HEB 3:9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. HEB 3:10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. HEB 3:11 So I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest. HEB 3:12 Take heed, brethren, l there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. SELF WILL AND STUBBORNESS PROCEED FROM AN EVIL HEART JER 7:24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. SELF WILL AND STUBBORNESS PROCEED FROM PRIDE NEH 9:16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments, NEH 9:29 And testified against them, that you might bring them again unto you law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto you commandments, but sinned against you judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them; and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear. SELF WILL AND STUBBORNESS PROCEED FROM UNBELIEF 2KI 17:14 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the Lord their God. PUNISHMENT FOR SELF WILL AND STUBBORNESS DEU 21:21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so will you put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear. PRO 29:1 He, that being often reproved hardens his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. THE WICKED CEASE NOT FROM SELF WILL AND STUBBORNESS JDG 2:19 And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.