Jesus has made the matter very plain in His life and teachings. One of the remarkable things about Jesus was His utter humility, and His complete submission subjection to authority. Although He was greater than the civil law, yet He submitted always to the requirements of that law. Nay, more, In His own labors. He recognized always the authority of a Superior Power under whose direction He worked. When we think of Jesus as a member of the Godhead, endowed with omnipotence, does it not seem strange to hear Him say, "I am not come of {155} myself, but He that sent me is true;" "my doctrine is not mine, but His that sent me;" "the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father do: for what things soever He doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise?" Yet, these sayings express the reverence of Jesus for authority. It must be plain to everyone who reads the life of Jesus that He recognized the fact that He held no authority of Himself, that He was not self-appointed; but that His influence, His power, His very Messiahship were conferred upon Him by the Father. [Sidenote: The submission of the apostles.] This same recognition of the necessity of authority, Jesus impressed upon His disciples. "Ye have not chosen me," he declared one day to them, "but I have chosen you, and ordained you." And we learn that Jesus did call and ordain apostles and seventies; and that it was the custom in the early Christian Church to ordain by laying on hands other officers, such as, high priests, elders, priests, teachers, and deacons, and bishops. Indeed, it must be clear to everyone, that only by such special call and ordination could the apostles rightfully go into the world to do the works that Jesus did. When the disciples of John the Baptist wondered that Jesus should surpass their master, do you recall what John answered them? Said he, "A man can receive (or take unto himself) nothing except it be given him from heaven." That is the point. No man can assume to act as a servant of God, in official position, unless He is called of God. Hence, Jesus said to His apostles, when He had finished His own lifework, "As my Father hath sent me, even so send I you." {156} [Sidenote: The second mark.] From these teachings of Jesus, we learn, then, the second mark of the Church of Christ. Not only will that Church believe in the necessity of continual revelation and actually receive it, but it will recognize the necessity of specially delegated divine authority to officiate in the name of God, and will provide in its Church organization for all the officers belonging to the priesthood of God. [Sidenote: Two orders of priesthood.]