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Exploring Divine Order: Obedience and Submission Revealed (J.H.Smith)
We read from Chapter 6 from the pamphlet called “Obedience and Submission—some Healing Principles” by James Harrison Smith.
Because believers still can act in the flesh (Galatians 5:19–21), Christ makes the local assembly responsible as God’s house and grants it authority to “bind” and “loose” (Matthew 18:18), distinguishing delegated authority from infallibility or approval. Using Hagar and Sarah (Genesis 16) and Israel’s division under Rehoboam and Jeroboam (1 Kings 11–12; 2 Chronicles 11; 30), it presents submission to even unrighteous acts of constituted authority as preserving divine…
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