There is widespread misunderstanding about life after getting saved. The Bible, over and over, reveals that all saved people are submitted people, submitted to the authority of Jesus. All saved people, always.
Submission is part of a saved person's relationship to Jesus. It is how they relate to Jesus. They learn the commands God gave in the Bible, and then try to obey them. Like parents and their children. Like masters and their slaves. They desire to not sin, to be holy. It is a new lifestyle. It causes them to make new habits and discard old ones.
Submission to Jesus is based on their trusting His authority over them. They believe He loves them greatly, and expresses His love by giving them commands, commands to benefit them, to give them a wonderful life. They submit to Jesus, because they recognize each command is a priceless gift.
Submission is not obedience, but what comes before obedience and causes obedience. Submission does not lead to unfailing obedience, but growing in obedience. Becoming more and more like Jesus, little by little. Some people grow slowly and others quickly, but all Christians are growing in obedience.
It is typical for Bible preachers and teachers to claim that saved people should be submitted, but often choose not to be. Many who attend churches believe obedience to God is optional for Christians or not that important, even though they may never say it. They are not in a submitted relationship to Jesus. They have not set their hearts on obeying God. What shows this?
Church leaders are constantly nagging “saved people” “to make Jesus their Lord.” (Jesus is already Lord; no one can make Him Lord; God has already done that, Acts 2.36.) Many teach that the Christian walk is not rules (commands), but relationship. (It is both; rules are part of the relationship. They reveal how to relate to God.) Many teach a person can get saved and never change at all, ever. (No change means no salvation.) They obey God when it is easy, comfortable, agreeable and so on. But not when it requires striving, great effort, energy, exhaustion and so on. They obey God from time to time, but obedience is not their new lifestyle; it is not habitual.
This is not biblical. Consider,
Colossians 3:23-24 KJV
[23] And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
[24] Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.
It does not say you should serve the Lord, but that you actually do. This was written to saved people.
There are other verses that reveal the same thing.
In the Bible, "children of God" are saved people. The prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32) represents a type of saved person, because he is called a son. Even he was submitted to his father. Notice,
Luke 15:11-12, 18-19 KJV
[11] And he said, A certain man had two sons:
[12] And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.
[18] I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
[19] And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
Both before and after wasting the money, the son requested what he desired from his father. Then he accepted whatever his father decided. He did not rebel against his father at any time.
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