Obedience and submission are the healing principles of humanity. How constantly they were exemplified in the life of our Savior! Through grace we are taught of god to bow. I do not say “to approve” always, but to respect divinely constituted authority in its place, in reverence toward Him who gave it, while waiting patiently on the Lord, if He sees an abuse of authority, to correct the one at fault in His own time and way. “All power is given unto” Him “in heaven and in earth.”
In the Word, the delegation of authority is revealed in at least five aspects, namely: to the husband, to the father, to the “powers that be,” to the master, and to the assembly.