Did I ever tell you I used to be a cheerleader?

Well I was. I was a Benson Braves football cheerleader. But I don't take a lot of pride in that time.
We had 9 girls on the "team." Eight were cheerleaders and one was the mascot. Our coach for some reason didn't feel the need to name a captain. If she were going to be the boss at each game, that might have been fine, but she didn't attend the games, just made sure we could do each cheer well at practice.
So, each game one of us would be the "captain" that night. That left us all on the same level with no one as a clear authority. Can you imagine what our games looked like? What are the odds that the WHOLE team liked the captain that night? Not good.
So, our "team" was really split in two each game, and the behavior only served to make each game worse. The pretend captain would say what cheer we would do, and the other team would start a different cheer at LEAST once a night, just to make them mad.
By the end of the year we called OURSELVES "The B**ch Squad."

If we had a captain, we would have fallen in line with the leader, or been off the squad.

You MUST have a captain, manager, leader for a team. And the Bible says that you must respect and obey the authority placed over you, because God put them there. The only reason that a person has to legitimately rebel against that authority is if they ask you to disobey or sin against God.

Romans 13:1-2 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there
is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever
therefore resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God and they that
resist shall receive to themselves damnation.

1 Peter 2:18 Servants, be submissive to your masters with all
respect, not only to those who are good and gentle, but also to those who are
unreasonable.

If our body didn't have a "head" what would happen? Would the hand do it's job and the foot it's job and the heart even do it's job? Let's say they all do what they are supposed to do, would it be for the good or the destruction of the body? If all parts are drawing off the food source, but no one regulating who gets how much food and orders a replenishing of the food, what would happen to the body? Clearly the body needs a leader, a head. Just as any team or group or business. If a team member/body part doesn't follow the lead of the head, cancer develops.

What exceptions are there to following a corrupt leader? When they ask you to disobey God, or sin, is a good reason. There are examples of this in the Bible.

Exodus 1:15-21 Pharaoh told the midwives to kill male children as they were born. They creatively disobeyed the Pharaoh out of fear of God, and God blessed them.

Acts 4:18-31 Peter and John were told not to tell people about Jesus and they told the leaders to judge for themselves whether is would be better in God's sight to obey the leaders or God. But they would not stop talking about what they had seen.

Therefore, if someone is in authority over you, you need to submit to that authority, graciously and without complaint, no matter how bad you think they are, until they ask you to disobey God. God put them in authority for a reason, and He will bring it down in His time, or change things in His time.