Rule is to be regulated by love. Christians are not to aspire after dominance but usefulness. Saints are likened unto sheep and not goats or wolves. Submitting yourselves one to another means mutually serving one another, seeking each other s well-being and advantage in all things. Sin chafes at any restraints, determined to have its own way.
Sin is self-centered, imperious, indifferent to the welfare of others.
Yokes and restrictions are intolerable unto sin, and every attempt to enforce them meets with opposition. That resistance is evinced from earliest infancy, for a thwarted babe will cry and kick because not suffered to have its own way. Because all are born in sin the world is filled with strife and contention, crime and war. But at regeneration a principle of grace is communicated, and though sin be not annihilated, its dominion is broken. The love of God is shed abroad in the renewed heart to counteract its native selfishness.