The Donkey Principal Part 2

Understanding Servanthood
Today’s Focus: Servanthood: The Donkey Principal Part 2
Scripture: Matthew 21:1-11; Malachi 4;5,6; Philippians 2:7

Greetings Kingdom Citizens
Now in the last message we saw that in Matthew 21:1-3 we see a picture of an apostolic community based upon the foundation of a father/son model and the loosing of this father/son model from the doorpost which represents the Kingdom of God is an apostolic commissioning so that they may now be used by the Lord. Now let’s began to put some meat on this unique principal.

Matthew 21:4,5: All of this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet (Zechariah 9:9), saying, Tell ye the daughter of Sion (The Church), Behold thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass and a colt the foal of an ass.

Now we said in the last message that the ass and the colt is representing the father/son model. How do we know this? First let’s start with the last Old Testament prophecy

Malachi 4:5,6: Behold I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite earth with a curse

God in the New Testament to Zacharias speaks this same prophecy through an angel to began the New Testament. So God always intended to turn the hearts of the children to the fathers and the fathers to the children. Let me take it one step further:

Matthew 1:1: The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham
The very first page in the New Testament starts by explaining the genealogy of Jesus Christ and when you look at it, it shows how a father begats a son and the son becomes a father and begats another son for 41 generations to Jesus and then we are the 42nd Generation which is Christ. So let’s understand something here, the House of God is based upon a patriarchal order of fathers overseeing sons and bringing them into maturity so that they may become fathers and at the appointed time they can disciple sons. This is called trans-generational building. This is what we as the church have been called to do. Not convert people to our denomination and doctrines.

Now Matthew 21:5 says that the King is coming meek (gentle) and riding upon the concept of the father/son model. Now watch this! When the ass and the colt got back, the apostles or disciples took their garments and covered the ass and colt and then put Jesus on them. What does this symbolize? This is the picture of the apostles, taking their mantles or anointing and covering the unclean beasts. Now that the beasts are covered in the anointing, the Christ can now ride into Jerusalem on them. Now please understand the colt and the ass have never been ridden on and are untrained beasts but they submit to the Will of the Lord and they are covered in the anointing to carry the gift of the Father, Jesus, into Jerusalem. The scriptures go on to say that people stripped themselves of their garments and branches of trees and laid them in the way. Everyone is stripping themselves of their anointing to make way for Christ. We are the donkeys that are covered in apostolic grace to carry the gift of Christ wherever He sends us. Now here is the kicker!

Matthew 21:9: And the multitudes that went before and that followed, cried saying Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.
I know we have heard and read this a thousand times but did we notice that is says Blessed is HE (JESUS) THAT COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD. Jesus is simply representing the Father at this time because He, Jesus, comes in the name of the Lord. Remember in Philippians 2:7, Jesus made himself of NO REPUTATION and took upon the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men.

Now notice the donkeys get no glory. All of the glory goes to the person they are carrying, Christ. This is why we must become like the donkey and be carriers of the gift of God in the Earth. We must submit and humble ourselves just like these donkeys and do the Will of God. When we do this then can people say, Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord.

Peace, Love and Grace from the Father,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.