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Ep 117: God With Us - The Living Word Reveals His Kingship Through Scripture
"Ever wondered how the fulfilled prophecies of Christ’s passion deepen our understanding of God’s plan and personal love for humanity? Christ’s passion week reveals divine authorship through fulfilled prophecy, legal kingship, and sacrificial love—making Good Friday truly good and resurrection Sunday a celebration of transformation."
From a colt that had "never been ridden" to prophecies written centuries before crucifixion was invented, the story of Christ's final week reveals divine authorship on every page. Pastor Teddy Kenney, a.k.a. Fred David Kenney, Jr., takes us on a fascinating journey through Scripture, connecting ancient prophecies with their New Testament fulfillment.
The triumphal entry marks more than just Jesus riding into Jerusalem – it's the rightful King claiming His territory. This episode unpacks the remarkable legal qualifications Jesus possessed through both Joseph (legal heir to David's throne) and Mary (blood descendant through Nathan). We laugh at what Pastor Teddy playfully calls "biblical grand theft auto" when the disciples take the colt, then marvel at how God's favor makes the impossible happen with just a few words: "The Lord has need of it."
What makes Psalm 22 so extraordinary is its detailed description of crucifixion written a millennium before the Romans invented this brutal execution method. "They have pierced my hands and feet" and "they divide my garments among them, for my clothing they cast lots" aren't vague predictions but precise details that found perfect fulfillment on Good Friday. These prophetic connections form an unbroken thread throughout Scripture that only a divine Author could orchestrate.
The most profound revelation comes in understanding that God didn't simply dismiss our sins – Christ literally bore them. Unlike human forgiveness that might sweep offenses under the rug, divine forgiveness operates through substitution. Jesus carried our guilt and suffered our punishment, making Good Friday truly good for humanity. As we approach Resurrection Sunday, remember this ultimate expression of love that transforms us from condemned to "seated in heavenly places" with Christ.
Ready to experience this transformation yourself? Simply acknowledge Christ's sacrifice, receive His forgiveness, and invite Him to live through you. This Easter weekend, celebrate not just a historical event, but the living presence of Emmanuel – God with us – who promises to remain "all the days until the completion of the age."
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Speaker 2:It's the best, we'll be right back. You're the only name. You're the only name. You're the only name.
Speaker 1:Hello and welcome to Plays on Word Radio, where we discuss, analyze, work and play on the Word of God. Thank you for joining us on this excursion. Today let's join Pastor Teddy, also known as Fred David Kenny Jr, the founder of Plays on Word Theater, as he does a deep dive into the Word of God.
Speaker 2:Amen. Well, thank you, welcome back to everyone to Plays on Word Radio. Thank you very much, katie Kenney and Mr Josh Taylor. Thank you, every single one of you, for streaming this, listening to Plays on Word Radio, wherever you might be. May the Lord bless you this day absolutely.
Speaker 2:Last time we, um, we were gearing up, going, moving towards last friday, we were moving towards the triumphal, or triumphant, entry of the king and we we spent most of our time on the raising of Lazarus in John, chapter 11.
Speaker 2:Great, incredible event. And then after that, as far as the timeline, how things happen, we look at the triumphal entry where the king makes his way into Jerusalem, and it had all been leading up to this king entering Jerusalem. I'm going to read from the Gospel of Mark for a second Mark, chapter 11. It says now, when they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethpage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, jesus sent two of his disciples and said to them go into the village in front of you and immediately as you enter it, you will find a colt tied on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it. If anyone says to you, why are you doing this? Say the Lord has need of it and will send it back here immediately. And they went and they found a colt tied at the door outside in the street and they untied it and some of those standing there said to them what are you doing untying that colt?
Speaker 2:And they said to them what Jesus had said and they let him go and they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks on it and he sat on it and many spread their cloaks on the road and others spread leafy branches. Those are the palm trees, palm branches that had been cut from the fields. And those who went before, those who followed, were shouting Hosanna, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, blessed is the coming kingdom of our father, david. Hosanna in the highest. They're shouting this at the top of their lungs and it's my sense of humor, slightly warped, I guess messed up.
Speaker 2:This is a biblical example of grand theft auto, yeah, condoned by Jesus. Well, it's not really theft because he owns everything. But I just find this comical. These guys, you know, they tied up this cult, this donkey and the two disciples. They just roll into the town, untie it and I, I don't know. I just imagine the guys that are standing there just chewing the fat, talking, just hanging out, you know, and all of a sudden they see these two guys show up and start untying their donkey. They're like whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey, what are you doing? And I almost imagine like a John Wayne character sitting there. Maybe the donkey is his or his partner's. What are you doing, pilgrim? Is that donkey yours? And they say the Lord has need of it and will send it back immediately. And they were like, well, all righty, and they actually let him. This is an example of I won't say grand theft. This is an example of God's favor. He granted these guys favor. Believe me, had they not had the favor of the Lord and they tried to untie somebody's donkey? Yeah, that's a guaranteed way to eat a knuckle sandwich. Yeah, don't want that.
Speaker 2:And so this week, as we continue, continue, we have the triumphal entry, the king who the entire book, the entire gospel of matthew, is presenting. This king, the entire gospel is presenting the king and not only the earthly king who has the right to the throne of David. See through Jesus, you know Jesus, mary and Joseph, through Joseph was the legal right to the kingdom to be the king, going all the way back to King Solomon, back to King David. King going all the way back to King Solomon, back to King David. And if the Romans were not in charge of Israel at the time and ruling over them, the amazing thing is that Joseph, the husband of Mary, would have been the king, not Herod. Herod was a fake king. He was appointed by the Romans. Yeah, it was a political appointment. It was not.
Speaker 2:That was not a recognized kingship in god's eyes. Legally, in god's eyes, the, the recognized kingship, went down to joseph, the carpenter from nazareth. He's working in a wood shop. Oh, how the royal have fallen. He's working. He's a poor man working in the wood shop, whose wife-to-be, who he's betrothed to. Basically, it's already a done deal. The only thing left is the ceremony. She comes and says, hey, I'm pregnant. What? Oh my goodness this guy. Oh my goodness this guy.
Speaker 2:But so Jesus had the right to be the king. All the rights of kingship went to him and the bloodline. He didn't have Joseph's blood, but the blood line went back to David as well, but back to Nathan, david's other son, not Solomon. And in Jeremiah the kingly line is the kingly line. That bloodline is cursed in the sense that there will not be a king from that bloodline that will sit on the throne. Yet the legal, the legal right to the throne was never cut off, and that's how it goes down through joseph and maintains the uh, jeremiah curse that was put on the, the kingly line of conia.
Speaker 2:I'm getting in the weeds here. Some of you guys are like what is he talking about? Some of you are like, yeah, yeah, right on, brother, I get it, I know it. I was just in there. Yes, so if you're questioning it, send me an email. And if you're, if you like it, send me an email, let me know. Let me know what you think.
Speaker 2:Either way, though, christ, the king, is the theme of Matthew, but it's more than just the king. He's also God with us, emmanuel, and one of the most fascinating, one of the absolutely most fascinating things is that in the beginning of the Gospel of Matthew, in the very the first prophecy talks about how the virgin will. This was written to fulfill what was written that the virgin will be with child, she'll give birth to a son and she will call him Emmanuel. And then Matthew says that means God with us, god with us, god with us. That's what Emmanuel means. He gives us a translation that's early up in the beginning of the Gospel of Matthew.
Speaker 2:At the end of the Gospel of Matthew, jesus, he gives the great commission at the end and he says go, baptize in the name of the Father, son and Holy Spirit. And then he goes on to say and lo, I am with you even to the end of the age. Well, we kind of I don't know man, we kind of pass through that in the Greek. In the Greek it's, it goes, it's it's way richer than how the English presents it. Lo, I'm with you all the days. You know it.
Speaker 2:In the Greek it basically says and see, I with you, I am, or I with you am, all the days, until the completion of the age. So I with you am, and that is Emmanuel God with us. Just like in the beginning, he will be called Emmanuel God with us. Just like in the beginning, he will be called Emmanuel God with us. And at the end he's stamping it with the egoemi of the Greek or the I am statement. But he sandwiches us in the midst of that. I with you Am what you got to love the scripture. I'm what you would call a scripture geek, I guess, but I just it's. You know, scripture is alive and active and it's just. It is life to our soul. And when you go deeper into it, like that it's, it just continues going and going. And we talked, remember, we talked about the, the Mandelbrot set. Uh, last, yeah, last time.
Speaker 1:No, yeah Was it last time.
Speaker 2:I don't remember no, it wasn't last time, it was a couple of episodes back but it just continues and continues for infinity, the Scripture, the depth of God, the richness of God. So we talked about I remember it was last season, we talked about the triumphal entry of Jesus and then how he made his way to the temple and remember how we did the whole teaching on the fig tree. I don't remember the exact episode, but it was cool. We got a lot of mail on that. A lot of people were blessed by it, because the fig tree was basically false advertising, acting like it had fruit on it, looking like it had fruit, but it did not have any fruit. And that was a picture and type of what the religious leaders were. They were acting righteous and they looked righteous and holy, but yet there was no fruit that was being produced. Jesus would also call them whitewashed tombs all clean on the outside, but yet there was no fruit that was being produced. Jesus would also call them whitewashed tombs all clean on the outside but inside full of dead man's bones. And so Jesus then makes his way into the temple. He didn't like what he saw and he made a whip out of cords, turned over the table to moneyers and and said, uh, my father's house is a house of prayer, you guys have made it a den of robbers. And he turned, he, oh, he created a ruckus, he was angry, but he didn't sin, and he knocked over the tables. The coins went all over the place. Uh, then they went back to the house, um, and then tuesday they they head back to the temple and when they get back there, the religious leaders are all bent out of shape and waiting for him, saying who gave what gives you the right to do these things here? Who said you could do these things here? And? And he asked him about John the Baptist, and where did his baptism come from? He basically shut them down.
Speaker 2:And this all leads up to this week. What is happening this week? What we're celebrating? So these things went down 2,000 some years ago, around this period of time leading up to the Passover, which is Friday today, which is Friday today. So what's so good about this Friday?
Speaker 2:You know you had the Passover meal and the trials of Christ, all from last night into the morning, and then today would have been Christ put on the cross nine o'clock in the morning, hung between two prisoners, and while he's on the cross, people are saying he trusts in the Lord. Let the Lord deliver him. Trusts in the Lord, let the Lord deliver him. Let the Lord rescue him, for he delights in him. Oh, that wasn't from the New Testament, that was from the Old Testament. Yet it was fulfilled in the New Testament and it's also written in the New Testament In Matthew 27, verse 42,.
Speaker 2:At the crucifixion, people around the cross and they're mocking him and the people are saying he saved others. He cannot save himself. He's the king of Israel. Let him come down now from the cross and we'll believe in him. Here's the key verse 43. He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now if he desires him. For he said I am the son of God. That's verbatim what was said a thousand years before through the pen and the hand of King David. King David was never pierced through his hands and his feet.
Speaker 2:I'm going to read this. I want you to listen. Feel me on this. I'm telling you, listen to this. In you, our fathers trusted. They trusted and you delivered them To you. They cried and were rescued. In you, they trusted and were not put to shame.
Speaker 2:But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by the people. All who see me mock me. They make mouths at me and wag their heads. He trusts in the Lord. Let him deliver him, let him rescue him, for he delights in him. Yet you are he who took me from the womb. You made me trust, at my mother's breast, on you. I was cast from my birth and from my mother's womb you have been my God. Be not far from me, for trouble is near and there is none to help. Many bulls encompass me, strong bulls of Bashan surround me. They open wide their mouths at me like a raving and roaring lion. I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted within my breast. My strength is dried up like a pot shirt. My tongue sticks to my jaws at a roof of my mouth.
Speaker 2:Some translations say you lay me in the dust of death. Pay attention to this coming up, for dogs have encompassed me. A company of evildoers encircles me. They have pierced my hands and feet. What no-transcript. They have pierced my hands and my feet. This is at least 600, 700 years before crucifixion was even invented. I can count on my bones. They stare and gloat over me and divide my garments among them. For my clothing, they cast lots. They cast lots. That's what they did for Jesus' clothes.
Speaker 2:But you, o Lord, do not be far off. O, you help me, come quickly to my aid, deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog, save me from the mouth of the lion. You have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen. Now look at this part. I will tell of your name to my brothers in the midst of the congregation, I will praise you, you who fear the Lord. Praise him, all you, offspring of Jacob, glorify him and stand in awe of him, all of you, offspring of Israel, for he has not despised or abandoned the affliction of the afflicted and he has not hidden his face from him, but has heard when he cried to him. From you comes my praise in the congregation. My vows I will perform before those who fear him. The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied. Those who seek him shall praise the Lord. May your hearts live forever. All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord and all the families of the nations shall worship before you, for kingship belongs to the Lord and he rules over the nations. All the prosperous of the earth, eat and worship, bow down before him. Yeah, bow, let me get that right. All the prosperous of the earth, eat and worship before him shall bow. And all who go down to the dust, even the one who could not keep himself alive, psalm 22. You read that. And then go read Isaiah 53. What you got? A ringside seat. You have a ringside seat of the crucifixion. Much of that, much of it is straight crucifixion there and is straight crucifixion there.
Speaker 2:And on this Friday we celebrate that the Lamb of God takes away the sin of the world. He took away our sin. Because of what he did. We are not guilty because the Lord has done it. He made intercession for the transgressors. He bore the sins of many, bore the sin, took it on himself. That's the concept. That's the idea that's why it's such a good Friday today that he bore my sin and your sin on him, took it off of us Past, present and future, which is a that's a bizarre concept, to just wrap your mind around. He was not counting his sins against us in his forbearance, and so he took my sin and your sin and the things that were keeping us away from that barrier.
Speaker 2:See, god never forgave sin the way we think of forgiving sin. He never. Just, you know, if a judge today is going to pardon somebody, like a presidential pardon, that's actually an injustice, especially when they're guilty as sin and the president comes and pardons them. Now, if you're not guilty and you get a pardon, ok, cool, justice has been served. But if you're guilty and a judge says, you know, we're not going to throw the book at you. In fact, I just, you know, pay court costs or you get a pardon. That you know.
Speaker 2:You walk out and say, oh, I was forgiven. The state forgave me of my sin. No, or my offenses were forgiven, okay, that's how man sees forgiveness. That's not how God does it. No, god never shoved any guilt under the rug. No, our sin was transferred. He bore our sin, he suffered our wrath. The wrath was poured out on him instead of us. This is the most amazing thing, because now we are sin-free, we have been forgiven, but never, ever forget the fact that your sin was not just expunged or crumpled up on a piece of paper and put through the shredder. No, it was put in a box that someone carried, and that someone is Christ. Hallelujah, thank God, he did that. That makes me worship, say thank you, be appreciative of what he did.
Speaker 2:That went down on Friday. Good Friday, oh, but Sunday's coming. If you read Leviticus 23, you will see Good Friday. In the Passover, you will see Saturday, the resting of the bread of life, the yeast-free bread of life. Who is Christ? The body of Christ that was broken and given for us, rested on the Sabbath day following the Passover, and then Sunday's coming, and that starts the feast of first fruits. Oh, hallelujah, the first fruits, the firstborn from among the dead. Never to die again. He didn't need to die in the first place, but never, ever to die again. Death has been defeated and the resurrection of Christ is the stamp saying that's right. So everything he says is now certified through the resurrection and he verifies the Bible that Moses wrote, that Elijah wrote, that Daniel wrote All these things these higher criticism critics like to question.
Speaker 2:He also says I've called you Before the foundation of the world. You were chosen in him to be in him. Yeah, seated in heavenly places. When Christ sat down at the right hand of God, he makes an intercession he's seated in heavenly places, but guess what? You're seated in heavenly places, because you're seated in him, because of his great love that he displayed for us. No eye has seen, no ear has heard what he has prepared for those who love Him and we're called according to His purposes. He can do exceedingly and abundantly, far more than we can even comprehend, ask or think. All these things come because he defeated death, came out of the grave and all heaven caught it. All heaven saw it. It's just too bad. Dense humanity can't see it, but there are some within the range of my voice right now that have seen it or might be on the edge of seeing it.
Speaker 2:Praise be to God for every single believer, and I pray before this program's over. If you are not a believer right now, you will give your life to the Lord. Just say Lord, please come into my life. I believe that you lived and died and paid for my sin. Please forgive me of my sin, come into my life, fill me with your Holy Spirit, live through me.
Speaker 2:That guy who's absolutely out of his mind on the radio program there, if he's right. I want to know you, lord. I want to know what the truth is. Come on now. Any rational human being is going to want to know what the truth is. You ask him what is the truth? I guarantee his spirit will let you know that he is the truth. Amen. My brothers and sisters, may the Lord bless you this Resurrection, sunday morning, coming up what we celebrate today, good Friday this weekend, remember, thank him for it and the Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
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