Why a donkey?

In Service Notes from Bruno on Steve’s sermon.

Why did Jesus ride in on a donkey?

• What expectations am I holding onto?

• Where am I missing God’s movement because I expect it to look like something else? 

• What am I doing with what God is giving me right now?

• Deut 8:6-9

• Obedience to God = peace

• God wants us to live in His peace

• He wants us to stay in the fields, not to sit back and chill

• God puts us in tough places so we can grow and draw near to Him

• There are no short cuts

• We can’t be flopping back and forth

• God can change our plans

Jesus didn’t ride in like He’s described in Rev 19.

Whatever God has for you, that’s what you’re supposed to be doing.

• business, teaching, trade work, doctor, Walmart, bus driver…. 

• There are people ministering the gospel in all walks of life. 

• People need to connect to real people. 

Jesus rode in on a young donkey (colt)

• The donkey was the lowliest of animals to ride on.

• They cried Hosanna - “Save us please”

• They wanted to be restored as in the days of David. 

• He wasn’t a warrior king coming to save them from government oppression. He came to save us from spiritual oppression.

“ I think that Him arriving on a young donkey fits the same theme that most of Jesus’ life. He subverted expectations by arriving in humility rather than in all His glory. He was born in a low place, He was from a town people didn’t think much of, and He died the death of ultimate shame. His entire life was lived in humble circumstances. He lived a life of perfect obedience to the Father, and passed the test of life for us.” - Bruno