If a person obeys, he submits to proper authority. It means that he does what the authority tells him to do. He does exactly what he is told to do. He does not do anything more and he does not do anything less.
Obedience has at least two primary responsibilities.
In the first, ideal obedience is concerned about the best interests of the one who obeys. God asks us to obey because God seeks our best interest. In God's concern, obedience's objective is to prevent the injuries that result from the ignorance of the person who is to obey. Because of our ignorance, dangers, unrecognized and unknown to us can destroy us. In this concern, God asks us to obey to protect us from disasters created by ignorance.