The Eternal Dividends of Submission — Part 1

1. The exploits of Jesus in the house of Joseph were those of Faith, Hope, and Charity. They were conversations inspired by submission, which fetched Him strength to forbear, believe, hope, and endure all things-until He became the Christ. (Lk. 2:51-52, Col. 3:12-15, 1Jn. 5:1)

2. No man who struggles with the counsels of truth on submission to a higher (or spiritual) authority can claim to have any true dominion in the spirit. Submission at all levels remains a vital prescription for weeding out or overcoming hidden natures in us; especially priestly sins like guile, envy, malice, hypocrisies, and evil speaking. (Rom. 10:1-5; 1Pet. 2:1,13,18; 1Pet. 5:5-6)

3. There are evil spirits who are easily attracted to believers that don’t know how to relate with their human will with caution and fear; believers who are naturally bold or who don’t refer to the wisdom kept in the good, acceptable and perfect will of God, while making decisions that’ll affect many other seasons of their lives (1 Sam. 13:8-14, Rom. 12:2)
   
   These spirits teach those with a bright future (or with the call of God upon their lives) to despise the spiritual order called spiritual submission to authorities constituted by heaven (Pet. 5:1-8, Rom. 13:1-2)
   Have you wrestled (or are you wrestling) with them?

4. We can’t know what we are still seeking or still holding onto at the expense of gaining the life called Christ or the everlasting quality of life that is in the Father, until the enlightenment contained therein can successfully find its way into the inward and hidden parts of our soul. (Jn. 12:25, 1 Cor. 4:5).
   
   The shortcut to this is by delighting in the demands of submission, even until we can both see this world and iniquity within, in its true colors. (1Pet. 5:5-6)

5. The primary goal of the light of faith is to help us to delight in the law of the Lord, which should see us keep faith with the scriptural injunctions on scriptural submission. (Psa. 1:2, Eph. 5:21)
   
   The last primary goal of the light of everlasting life is to help us perfect this; to bring us to a place where we abound in life while delighting in the law of God; especially while subjecting our will to that of the Father. (Rom. 7:22/8:6, Lk. 22:42)

6. Excelling in the act and art of submission to spiritual authorities should someday help us get it right where the devil once got it wrong, so we can overcome an angelic problem called iniquity that the everlasting gospel is presently healing many from. (Ezek. 28:15-16, Isa. 14:13-14, Rev. 22:2b)

7. By overcoming principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world, and spiritually wicked spirits on various occasions while under His parents’ roof, our Lord Jesus was qualified to be tempted by the fullness of what makes the devil vain. (Eph. 6:12, Heb. 4:15).
   
   All those who will someday qualify for such temptations will have to do likewise. They will have to journey to a place where we excel in submission to constituted authority, even until we have the two measures of life that can build the soul against the gates of hell: the revelation of Jesus as the Christ and as the Son of the living God. (Jam. 1:2, Rom. 13:1, Matt. 16:16-18).