Authority in the World

When young people grow up and find work, they immediately learn that their employer, who gives them the paycheck, is the boss. That's another authority: the relationship between masters and servants.
When born in a land, we are immediately under the authority of the government that rules it. The Lord has put authority in the civil government, and we are definitely instructed to obey these "powers that be." That is another authority. God, the supreme authority, has delegated authority to man.