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Text: Hebrews  13:17 

Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

One major and critical point to note in our text is that *it is unprofitable for you when you do not heartily allow the authority over your life to joyfully discharge his or her duty over you.* 

When you do not submit to the authority placed over you, you are indirectly opposing the final authority over your life, which is God.

Let us take for instance, how much it cost Korah, Dathan,  Abiram and their company for despising Moses' authority in the wilderness.  

Korah, Dathan and Abiram had 250 princes with them who are famous and renown men in the congregation. They all gang up against Moses, denying his leadership over Israel. (Number 16:3).

**The people that often disregard a leader's authority are those closest to him-* 

"Overfamiliarity syndrome" is responsible for this.* Hence, *You must be very careful not to keep company with despisers of authority, such are dangerous to themselves and to everyone around them.*  

These three men,the 250 princes, with their wives and children suffered an eternal loss for rebelling against constituted authority.

 ```And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.``` Numbers 16:32&33.

Their children and wives who knew nothing about their evil plans against Moses also partook in their punishment. Please note that submission to authority does not include aligning with a leader who is on a wrong and evil path. It does however means submitting to God under a leadership instituted by God and a leadership that aligns with God.

For instance, your obedience and submission to authorities over your life should only be to the extent in which that authority stays under God. You should not obey any authority that ask you to hurt, harm, cheat, molest, steal from, kill or destroy your fellow humans. No genuine authority under God would demand that you despise God's commands as stated in several verses of the scriptures.

 *Watch who you follow, obey and submit your life to, it is one major and critical decision you have to take in your lifetime.* 


 *Bible Reading*

Numbers 16:1-35
 
 *PRAYER FOCUS* 

1.) Father God, give me the grace to discern and stay under godly authority(s)you have placed over my life.

 
*CHRIST IMAGE ASSEMBLY* 
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