Submission
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Contents
Submit to Authority, Including Masters. 2
Family, Servants, and the Motivation for Submission. 2
Women/Wives Submit to
Men/Husbands:3
What Does Submission Look Like for (Male) Children?. 3
Introduction and Explanation
Submission is an issue of salvation. This Bible study is basically a
list of the main Bible passages that show this. Please urgently consider this
challenging call to extreme submission so that we may all repent and honor God
in this way.
Submission Examples
Ruth’s Example
Rth 1:16 Complete
Apostles' Bible And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave you,
or to return from following you; for wherever you go, I will go, and wherever
you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall
be my people, and your God my God.
Rth
3:5-6 Complete Apostles' Bible
5 And Ruth said to her, All that you say, I
will do. 6 And
she went down to the threshing floor, and did according to all that her
mother-in-law instructed her.
Mary’s Example
Luk 1:38 Complete
Apostles' Bible 38 Then Mary said, "Behold the maidservant
of the Lord! May it be to me according to your word." And the angel
departed from her.
Samuel And Saul
1Sa 15:22-23 KJ2000 And Samuel said, has the LORD as great
delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of
rams. 23 For rebellion
is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has also rejected you from
being king.
[Read all of First Samuel Chapter 15 to get this whole story]
Jude’s Warning
Jud 1:7-8 WEB Even as Sodom and Gomorrah…are set forth as
an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire. 8 Yet in like manner these also in their
dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority,
and slander celestial beings.
Submission Commands
Unsubmission Means Hell
1Ti_1:8-11
KJB But we know that the law is good, if one uses it
lawfully; 9 Knowing this: that the law is not laid down
for a righteous person but for the lawless and unsubmitted,G506 for the ungodly
and for sinners, for unholy and profane…
[G506: "unsubmitted" or disobedient]
Submit to Government
Rom 13:1-7 WEB Let every soul be in subjection to the higher
authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are
ordained by God. 2 Therefore
he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance of God; and those who
withstand will receive to themselves judgment.
3 For rulers are not a terror to the good work,
but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which
is good, and you will have praise from the same, 4 for he is a servant of God to you for good.
But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn't bear the sword in
vain; for he is a minister of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil. 5 Therefore you need to be in subjection, not
only because of the wrath, but also for conscience' sake. 6 For this reason you also pay taxes, for they
are ministers of God's service, attending continually on this very thing. 7 Give therefore to everyone what you owe:
taxes to whom taxes are due; customs to whom customs; respect to whom respect;
honor to whom honor.
Submit to Authority, Including Masters
1Pe 2:13-14 WEB Therefore subject yourselves to every
ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether to the king, as supreme; 14 or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance
on evil-doers and for praise to those who do well… 17
Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king. 18 Servants, be in subjection to your masters
with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked. 19 For it is commendable if someone endures
pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God. 20 For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently
endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this
is commendable with God. 21 For to this you were called, because Christ
also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,
Family, Servants, and the Motivation for Submission
Col 3:18-25 WEB Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as
is fitting in the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives, and don't be
bitter against them. 20
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the
Lord. 21
Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be
discouraged. 22
Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the
flesh, not just when they are looking, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart,
fearing God. 23 And
whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive
the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ. 25 But he who does wrong will receive again for the
wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.
Women/Wives Submit to Men/Husbands:
Num 30; Eph_5:22-24; Gen_3:16; Est_1:16-18, Est_1:20; 1Co_14:34; Col_3:18-19; 1Ti_2:11, 1Ti_2:12; Tit_2:5; 1Pe_3:1-6
See: www.trueconnection.org/BibleStudies/Family_Commands.html
Submit to Parents
Exo_20:12; Exo_21:15, Exo_21:17; Lev_19:3, 1Ki_2:19; Pro_1:8, Pro_1:9, Pro_15:5, Pro_20:20; Pro_23:22-25, Pro_28:24, Pro_30:11, Pro_30:17; Mal_1:6; Mat_15:4-6; Luk_18:20; Eph_6:1-3; Col_3:20
(Edited
from TSK)
See: http://www.trueconnection.org/BibleStudies/Family_Commands.html#Children
What Does Submission Look Like for (Male) Children?
Gal 4:1-3 WEB But I say that so long as the heir is a
child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all; 2 but is under guardians and stewards until the
day appointed by the father. 3 So we also, when we were children, were held
in bondage under the elements of the world.
See:
www.trueconnection.org/BibleStudies/Family_Commands.html#ComingofAge
Submit to Church Leadership:
Deu_17:12; Tit_3:1
Be Subject to one Another:
Eph_5:21
When to Disobey
Act 4:17-21 WEB But so that this spreads no further among the
people, let's threaten them, that from now on they don't speak to anyone in
this name." 18 They
called them, and charged them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. 19 But Peter and John answered them,
"Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to
God, judge for yourselves, 20 for we can't help telling the things which we
saw and heard." 21 When
they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish
them, because of the people; for everyone glorified God for that which was
done.
Act 5:27-29 WEB When they had brought them, they set them
before the council. The high priest questioned them, 28 saying, "Didn't we strictly charge you
not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your
teaching, and intend to bring this man's blood on us." 29 But Peter and the apostles answered, "We
must obey God rather than men.
[Also consider the story of David, Nabal, and Abigail in
1Sam 25]
Submission Conclusion
Rom 12:18 WEB If it is possible, as much as it is up to
you, be at peace with all men.
(Consider how this touches
the realm of submission)
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bar mitzfa
Also consider the principal of bar mitzfa, which is approved
by Jesus’ example:
Luke 2:7, 22-24, 40-52
As well as the gentiles of Galatia:
Gal 4:1-3
Women do not have a “coming of age” (and “independence”) like
this, except that they are married off to their husband. We know this not only
because the Bible specifies males and not females for this practice, but also
we know there was not a “coming of age” for a woman, because the liberal Jews
had to recently invent their erroneous “bat mitzvah” for women. If it were already there, they would not have
to invent one for the sake of “liberating” women.
The Biblically approved practice of bar mitzfa and the
complete absence and opposition of any kind of “bat mitzvah” in the Scriptures
shows that women are never intended to gain their independence as men do.
Divorce and widowhood are the only two cases were a woman is “on her own,” and
even then it seems they are encouraged to take refuge under authority (as in 1
Tim 5, etc.)
This is in complete accord with Num 30 and many other Scriptures that show this
very same thing.
Expansion project:
Merge into here Previous Bible study on
how Jacob re-submitted until 50 much Like Jesus re-submitted when He was in
their house:
Jesus
observed in Luke 2:7, 22-24, 40-52.
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make much more of this, and te following:
Num
30
Act
13 missionaries
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How might this apply to
submitting to authorities?
Respect Elders:
Lev_19:32;
Even to the forward
We could gather from all of these Scriptures: “If it is possible, as much as it is up to you…”
– SUBMIT TO
AUTHORITY