In our study of I Peter in recent days, the Holy Spirit has drawn to our attention repeatedly in chapters 2-3, to the call to submission (ESV text: "be subject") to God's ordained authorities in the world. Some of those institutions - government, marriage - were created by God and though corrupted by sin, are good in their createdness. Others, like the institution of slavery in Peter's day, were not created nor commended by God yet in God's sovereign will they exist. God's calling is to "arrange ourselves" or "order ourselves" under these authorities - good or ill - and submit and yield to these authorities where we can lawfully as Peter says "for the Lord's sake" (2:13). Only God has absolute authority over our lives! If anyone in authority, commands us to do what God forbids or forbids what God commands, we must obey God rather than man.
     Jonathan Leeman has written a book all about the subject of "authority" for the Christian. Watch and listen to his brief and solid answer to why submission to authority is so important in the Christian life.

          - Pastor Adam

Why do Christians care so much about submission to authority? - Jonathan Leeman