Examples of the Blessing of Submission
Preached by Apostle Aje Pelser

Col 3:18 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Col 3:19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them.
Col 3:20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing to the Lord.
Col 3:21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
Col 3:22 Bondservants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, fearing God.
Col 3:23 And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men,
Col 3:24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.
Col 3:25 But he who does wrong will be repaid for what he has done, and there is no partiality.

Here are several categories of submission and obedience mentioned:

Wives Submit G5293 hupotassō Thayer Definition:
1) to arrange under, to subordinate
2) to subject, put in subjection
3) to subject one’s self, obey
4) to submit to one’s control
5) to yield to one’s admonition or advice
6) to obey, be subject
Part of Speech: verb

Husbands Love and don’t be bitter Bitter G4087 pikrainō Thayer Definition:
1) to make bitter
1a) to produce a bitter taste in the stomach
2) to embitter. exasperate
2a) render angry, indignant
2b) to be embittered, irritated
2c) to visit with bitterness, to grieve (deal bitterly with)
Part of Speech: verb

Chidlren Obey Listen G5219 hupakouō Thayer Definition:
1) to listen, to harken
1a) of one who on the knock at the door comes to listen who it is, (the duty of a porter)
2) to harken to a command
2a) to obey, be obedient to, submit to
Part of Speech: verb

Fathers don’t provoke your children
G2042 erethizō Thayer Definition:
1) to stir up, excite, stimulate, to provoke
Part of Speech: verb

Bondservants Obey

Whatsoever you do do it hearltiy:
Heartily G5590 psuchē
Thayer Definition:
1) breath
1a) the breath of life
1a1) the vital force which animates the body and shows itself in breathing
1a1a) of animals
1a1b) of men
1b) life
1c) that in which there is life
1c1) a living being, a living soul
2) the soul
2a) the seat of the feelings, desires, affections, aversions (our heart, soul etc.)
2b) the (human) soul in so far as it is constituted that by the right use of the aids offered it by God it can attain its highest end and secure eternal blessedness, the soul regarded as a moral being designed for everlasting life
2c) the soul as an essence which differs from the body and is not dissolved by death (distinguished from other parts of the body)
Part of Speech: noun feminine

1. Submission deals with the inward person, allowing the Lord to do a ‘work of construction and interior decorating’ on the inside! By submitting to Him, we allow the scalpel of God’s Word to cut away all that is displeasing to Him that has been hidden away in our hearts.

2. Oxford: a willful yielding of oneself to the authority of another, subject to a process.

3. Hypotasso – a military term meaning “to rank under.” To “set in array under”. The following scriptures reveal this meaning:

Scriptures that contain “hypotasso”:
Romans 10:3 “have not submitted to the righteousness of God.”

1 Corinthians 16:16 “Submit yourselves unto such…”

Ephesians 5:21,22 “Submitting to one another, wives… husbands”

Colossians 3:18 “Wives submit yourselves to your own husbands”

James 4:7 “Submit to God, resist the Devil.”

1 Peter 2:13 “Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man…”

1 Peter 5:5 “You younger submit yourselves to the elder”
Submission causes trials to have the right impact on you and unleashes the potential within you. The desired effect of the trial will bring forth the fruit in you. Submission is also willful obedience, not because you feel like it but because you obey the inward call to submit.
The reward for submission is that we may inherit a blessing!
Then the word “likewise” is the key to unlock the concept of submission for all:
1 Peter 3
Submission releases the power of God in your life. The day of Pentecost is a wonderful example of submission. Wait until you receive power…
Jesus submitted to God. The Holy Spirit submits to the Word. There is mutual submission in the Godhead – God must honour His Word; Jesus trusts the Helper to continue His work on earth. It is a wonderful relationship.