Showing Respect to Ministers and Rulers, July 15

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. Hebrews 13:17.RRe 198.1

The fifth commandment requires children ... to yield respect, submission, and obedience to their parents.... It also enjoins respect for ministers and rulers, and for all others to whom God has delegated authority.—Patriarchs and Prophets, 308.RRe 198.2

Men and women are to be brought under the influence of true, earnest, whole-hearted workers, who labor for souls as they that must give an account. All who are baptized into a measure of the apostolic spirit will be constrained to become God’s missionaries. If they will be true, firm in the faith, if they will not sell their Lord for gain, but will ever acknowledge the divine supremacy and superintendence, God will prepare the way before them, and will greatly bless them. He will help them to represent His goodness, love, and mercy. And the glory of the Lord will be their rearward. There will be joy in the heavenly courts, and joy, pure, heavenly joy, will fill the hearts of the workers.—Testimonies for the Church 9:58.RRe 198.3