The Donkey Principal

Understanding Servanthood
Today’s Focus: Servanthood: The Donkey Principal
Scripture: Genesis 49:8-12; Matthew 21:1-9; Mark 11:2,4; Ephesians 5:26

Greetings Kingdom Citizens
Now many people say “I am a gift from God” and if said in the proper context, this is true. However let’s change that statement to be “I am carrying or a carrier of the gifts of God”. Now the reason I say this because we as servants should never say anything to bring attention to ourselves. We are called to be representatives, deputies and agents of the Lord. We are called to speak or do on behalf of Him and whatever we do or say, points back to Him. So we
do nothing of ourselves for our glory. Now that brings me to these next two to three messages and I want to talk about the donkey principal and how we should embrace being a donkey or the son of a donkey. Now this may seem degrading but as you know God uses types and shadows to illustrate eternal truths in the earth and the key is to get beyond the type and shadow and see the reality. The type and shadow is there to help you get to the reality. Let’s start:

Matthew 21:1-3: And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethpage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples, saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied and a colt with her: loose them and bring them unto me. And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, the Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them

Now right off the top we see Jesus sending two disciples to get the ass and the colt that tied up and bring them unto him. In Mark 11:2,4 say that the colt nor the ass that has never been sat on and they are tied to a doorpost. Now you may say, “ok” this is a loaded scripture and let me show you back in Genesis 49:8-12 we see Jacob addressing Judah and of course we know that this is the prophesy that speaks of Jesus being the Lion of Judah but let me show you this powerful set of scripture and tie this back to Matthew 21:1-3:

Genesis 49:11: Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes

The word foal in Hebrew pertains to a young ass and we see that both the ass and the colt are connected to the vine and choice vine. This entire scripture is a picture of an apostolic community. Jesus said “I am the vine”. The ass and the colt are pictures of a father/son model and notice they are tied to the vine who is symbolically, Jesus. Now let me finish this and then we will jump back to Matthew. We know that vines produce grapes and grapes produce wine. The end product which is the wine is a picture of all the grace and revelation given to the church. So when the scripture says they washed their garments in wine, it is symbolically referencing the washing of one by the word of God in the grace and revelation from Jesus (Ephesians 5:26). The washing of the clothes in the blood of grapes, the blood is symbolic of the selfless, sacrifice and giving of oneself. Now let’s take all of this to Matthew.

The scripture says that the ass and the colt are tied to a doorpost (Mark 11:2,4). The doorpost is a picture of the gateway to the house and a picture of the governmental order of God. In order to enter the House you must come under the rulership (Kingdom) that governs it. Now like we showed the disciples will see an ass and colt tied to a doorpost and if anyone says ought they were to tell them that the Lord has need of them. Now first we understand that the ass and the colt is a picture of the father/son model. They are tied to the doorpost, hence they are tied to the Kingdom of God. Now the fact that the disciples were to say, “The Lord has need of them” now puts the reference of ownership on those beasts.

The loosing of the ass and colt is symbolically the apostolic commissioning for the father/son model so the Lord may use them to do His Will.

For the sake of information and time we will continue this powerful study in the next message.

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