Submission is the opposite of self-assertion, which is the act of asserting one’s rights, claims, opinions, or actions of asserting your superiority over others. Men and women must be out of reverence for Christ, submitting them to one another. We must be submissive to one another because we recognize Christ as our King, and He rules His Church through His Word and Spirit. In contradiction against our natural sin that wants to rule over one another, we are encouraged to be submissive in God’s Word as men and women!