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Ep 159: Incomplete On Purpose - How Genesis Points Us Back To God

• Pastor/ Artist Fred Kenney Jr. • Season 4 • Episode 159

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"Are men and women incomplete? Today, we move from Adam to Ruth, showing a marriage design, honoring difference, and Old Testament promises pointing to Jesus, reshaping daily life, faith, and reading Scripture as one redemptive story."

We move from snow stories and regional quirks to Genesis, showing how Adam’s deep sleep, design, and blame point to a larger theme: Scripture from the first pages leads to Jesus. Along the way we share why Ruth belongs in a Christmas play and invite you to a new study.

• contrasts between Northeast blizzards and Southern shutdowns
• pastoring during storms with livestream worship
• audience check in across our global footprint
• why Old Testament stories point to Christ
• Ruth and Bethlehem as markers to the Messiah
• Hebrew nuance of rib versus side in Genesis 2
• Adam’s blame shift and the cost of excuse
• marriage as design, difference as gift, patience as practice
• updates on the Adam play and creative plans
• invitation to the GPS to the Messiah study

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Adam, Sleep, And First Design

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Lord, you know! Now listen to this! Man is made in the image of Adam, fallen at him, not perfect Adam. So when he went to sleep, think about this. He was perfect with perfect emotions, thinking, everything. The lore puts him to sleep and removes part of him and makes a woman. And as uh my dear brother Ken Graves, he points out, Adam went to sleep a complete man and woke up incomplete, missing something. He wasn't all there.

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Thank you for joining us on the experience 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.

Moving South And Weather Contrast

Northeast Blizzards And Grit

Southern Snow Shutdown Culture

Pastoring Through Storms Online

Gyms Closed And Regional Humor

No Snow Shovels In The South

Audience Check In And Global Footprint

Turning To Genesis And Adam Play

Joseph’s Silence And Ruth’s Relevance

Finding Christ In The Old Testament

Announcing GPS To The Messiah Study

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Amen. Welcome to all of you to Plays on Word Radio. Thank you for spending your your Friday or whatever day you are streaming this with us on Plays on Word Radio. Thank you for that. Thank you, uh Katie Kenny and Josh Taylor for that introduction. We are moving right along. We had fun last week, just bugging out. Let me tell you something, man. We are we're here in at our Southern Command in North Carolina, just north of South Carolina. So we are we are just north of the South Carolina border. I mean, I can be in South Carolina in 45 minutes, 40 minutes. No, no, less than that. Half an hour. Half an hour. 36 and a half minutes, something like that. And yeah, I'd be in South Carolina. And we are um this this is just uh it's an interesting change for us because we are from the Northeast. And you know, uh the Northeast, you get snowstorms. Hey man, I think it was 2010. Either 2010, 2011. I think it was 2010. Back in the Northeast. I remember I had to shovel my way out of my front door. Like I opened up, I couldn't even open the screen door. I had to like muscle my way to try to move the snow, and finally I was able to start digging, and I had to dig and dig and dig and dig and dig. The snow was over six feet. I'm six feet tall. It was over my head. The snow. And it wasn't all in one storm. It was um, how did that happen? It was uh man, I think it started like on a Tuesday, there was a storm where we got like, I don't know, a foot. And then Friday, there was another storm, and then the following Wednesday, there was another storm. There were these storms that piled snow on top of snow, and then there was one gigantic one. And I re I was like, man, I don't even know if I can get out my house. I don't even know if I can get out the house. And uh, yeah, it was it was piled up high in my front yard. And the worst part was I worked my way out, shoveled my way out, and finally got to the driveway, started shoveling that out. I didn't even have a snowblower. I'm shoveling that my way out and uh and a plow came by and plowed all the snow. I just shoveled out into the street, or up on the I didn't in the street, or it was on the edge there, but the plow came and set me back an hour and a half, two hours. I couldn't believe it. And it was big, heavy snow. This down here, hey, and we didn't the thing is we didn't stop, you know, like life, people still trying to get out on the roads and and do their thing. I don't think Wawa closed, man. Those of you in the northeast know what I'm talking about. But down here is a different story, it's a different story, man. Last year we had some snow and it I don't know, it was like an inch and a half, two inches. Everything closed. I was like, what what what? What's happening here? It's just a little dusting. This is, you know, nah, man. They shut everything down for a day or two days. I couldn't believe it. I was like, really? Yeah, so we we got some snow. I think it started Saturday night. It went into Sunday morning, and we got, I don't know, four inches, five inches, something like that. I don't think five inches. There were some drifts in my backyard, but we got some snow, and of course, everything was shut down. And you know, I pastor a church down here. So I was like, okay, looks like we're gonna have to go back to our COVID protocol and broadcast from the living room, and we did that. And it we had a couple technical glitches, but for the most part, we were able to do to lead worship and bring the message and people tuned in. So that was a blessing to be able to do that. Uh I I went to the gym, I want to say on Tuesday. Yeah, Tuesday. And the gym that I go to, maybe about 20 minutes from where I live, and the dude at the gym was like, Yeah, we've been closed, we've been closed for two days. And I was like, I was like, What, what? For two days, man, they closed up everything. I couldn't not just the gym, everything, man. Everything was closed. Um, I have a dear brother who's a pastor in Wisconsin. And, you know, I reached out to him and said, How you doing, man? What's the temperature? He's like, it's like, I don't know, 13 below, something like that. I was like, yo, you know, and I show, I tell him the snow we have, and he's like, that's not snow, that's decoration, man. Come on now. Come on now. Like it's amazing to see people from different regions how they respond to snow. Uh my buddy in Atlanta, Charles, my man Charles in Atlanta, man, I don't know how many years ago it was, but he they got snow one time, and traffic was backed up. I don't know, for miles there was a gigantic pile up on the road. Because people, I guess people aren't used to driving in snowy conditions. Um, yeah, this is, I don't know. And I gotta share this with you. Uh, last year when it snowed, see, when I moved down here, I was like, ah, I'm not gonna need no snow shovels. I'm moving to the south. I won't need this. And I left, I had a really nice snow shovel. It was bent, it was ergonomic. I could move tons of snow with that thing. It was like a front-end loader for a uh uh a truck or so. I mean, uh uh a tractor. It was like a tractor front-end loader. And I left it when I moved, I left it in New Jersey. I said, I'm not gonna need this. I gave it, I don't think I gave it to somebody. I'm not gonna need it. So when we got down here and it started snowing, I was like, uh oh. Uh-oh. I don't have any shovels. Well, I mean, yeah, I don't even have any shovels. I don't know. I have a broom, but I don't have any shovels. So I went over to the Lowe's Home Improvement Center, and I said to the guy, say, Hey man, you got it, you have any snow shovels? And he looked at me like, what? Are you out of your mind? We don't have snow shovels. I was like, how are you not gonna have a snow shovel? Come on, man. So we don't have snow shovels. I could not believe it. They didn't have any snow. I said, man, can I have a regular shovel? He gave me a regular shovel. So I'm out in my driveway shoveling snow with a regular shovel. Oh, what's the problem with that? It does you have to do twice as much work, maybe three times as much work. Anyway, so it goes for the adventure of plays on word southern command. I wanted to uh I wanted to share with you guys or see how you guys are doing. So shoot me a text or an email, let me know how you're doing. Uh, those of you that are in contact with the program, um I just wanted to reach out to you guys, see how things are going with with everybody in the listening uh footprint, which is global. We have folks that listen all over the world, which is really cool. Tell me if you have snow shovels where you live, or what do you do with the snow? Anyway, I wanted to, besides reaching out to you, last week I didn't get to it. I wanted to get to this idea of uh Genesis. We do an we do an Adam play, which we are also working on and expanding right now because the church is in that I pastor is in the book of Genesis. Particularly, we just did chapters one and two, and we did a lengthy intro into the book. We're coming up on chapter three this week, and the Adam play, it comes from those chapters, and one of the things that we touched on in the message that we're gonna try to expand a little bit without doing any damage to the scripture. I don't want to go beyond what scripture, you know. I I I have to start with what does God give us? What does he give us? And I don't you don't want to go too far out of bounds on what he gives you in scripture. And for instance, like the in the Christmas Joe play, we don't have a whole lot of passages about Joseph, man. We have a genealogy in Matthew, we have uh the angel appearing to him, telling him, Don't be afraid to take Mary as your wife, because what's conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. Uh then we have the story in Luke about him and Mary making their way to Bethlehem, and then the angel, uh then the uh shepherds coming over to see them, and then we we have a a a post-Christmas story about uh Jesus being twelve or whatever it is, when when they go to the temple and he's left behind. Um we I mean, we don't have a whole lot about Joseph. So and amazingly, God gave us the the gen uh the Christmas Joe play, which is amazingly, it's a half an hour long. We don't have direct uh dialogue or uh direct scriptures uh involving Joseph. There are many indirect though, and that's what we focus on. Uh particularly the book of Ruth is in the Christmas Joe play. What do you mean? How can you put Ruth in it? Well, uh if you see the play, you'll understand it. If you're uh you know a student of the Bible, you'll understand it. That the book of Ruth takes place in Bethlehem. And some of you, some light bulbs should be going off. Bethlehem, wait a second, that's right. Jesus was born in the city of David in Bethlehem and he was born to that family that goes back from you know through the Book of Ruth, through Boaz, all the way back to Abraham, all the way back to Adam. So it is relevant. Not only is it relevant that the bread of life would be born in the house of bread, but he it was uh the a story of redemption that which seemed to be lost was brought back, and a story of hope. All of these things tie into the main reason. These are shadows of things that are to come, and Christ is the substance. And Christ, Jesus, is the substance of all the shadows of the Old Testament, what we call the Old Testament, the Hebrew Scriptures. Jesus is the point. And I've said this many times: if you miss Christ in the Old Testament, you missed everything. You missed the point. You missed the point. If you miss Jesus in the Old Testament, you miss the point. He is the point. He says in uh the Gospel of John, he's talking to the religious leaders, and he said, You guys, you diligently search the scriptures because you think in them you have eternal life. You don't even realize these are the scriptures that are talking about me. They testify of me. And uh our church, we're gonna be starting. And if you guys want to log in, we might even live stream it. Let me know if you want me to live stream it. Uh, we'll most likely post it on our church website. Uh, we're gonna be starting a study called GPS to the Messiah. And the GPS is just like you you get GPS coordinates, map. It used to, man. This I used to do the study many years ago. I mean, the first time I did it, I think it was 20 years ago. And it was uh, I called it map quest to the messiah. But uh, yeah, the idea is you know, we're trying to help people not miss Christ in the old testament and see what is he what is he talking about when he says these are the scriptures that testify of me. So we're gonna be starting that next week, and uh it's gonna be really um real it's it's it's it's gonna be intense, it's gonna be fun. We're gonna be going through it. But just as this the same way I just mentioned uh Christmas Joe, the story of Adam that we're doing, our Adam play, there's I mean, there's uh not a lot of chapters dedicated to the guy, and he doesn't have a whole lot of dialogue. And seems like the dialogue he has, first thing he does, he passes the pass the buck, man. So does he? I mean, okay, when when God brings him his wife in chapter two, he brings him Eve, he's completely amped up. He said, This is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh, she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man. Okay, he's he says that, and then if you look, like the next thing he says is in chapter three, verse nine, the Lord God called to the man and said to him, Where are you? And Adam says, I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked and I hid myself. And then the Lord says to him, Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat? And then the man said, Here's where he passes the book. The man says, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate. Oh my goodness, man.

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Oh man.

Adam’s Dialogue And The Buck Pass

Rib Or Side And Hebrew Nuance

The Perfect Man Before The Fall

Waking Incomplete And Gender Differences

Humor On Habits And Design

Completeness In God And Marriage

Updating The Adam Play And Touring

Patience, Honor, And God’s Craft

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Instead of just saying, Yes, I ate, man. Yeah, I ate of the tree, and I I'm in error owning it. He really passed the buck there. The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the fruit of the tree, and I ate. And then the Lord he turns to to Eve and he says, What is this that you have done? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me and I ate. That's actually more direct than Adam. She wasn't passing the book. I mean, that was true. She was deceived. The serpent did deceive her, and she ate. She was direct. Adam was like, It was the woman that you he blamed Eve and he blamed God. Oh man. See, and I think this, I'm telling you, I think this goes back, and I mentioned this, and I'm trying to work this into the Adam play without doing damage. But if you go back to chapter two, it says the Lord caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept, he took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man, he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Now it's rendered as rib, the word we we use the word rib, but yeah, it's it's probably I mean it could mean something from Adam's side, part of Adam, uh from beside Adam, like part of him taken from his side. It's it's uh it's not definite the way the word eyes or hair or flesh or you know that kind of stuff. It's uh it's a little ambiguous. And we pointed out in the message that it was there there's enough information in every single cell. In actually in one cell, there's enough information to fill a library, enough digital information, genetic information to build a person. So the Lord, you know, He did He didn't even have to take like a whole rib to create somebody. He could have taken a cell from his side. Um, does it say that? No, and I'm not going beyond, I'm not gonna nope, don't quote me on it. I'm not saying that. The scripture says rib, but when you learn the Hebrew, it does allow for some interpretation wiggle room there. But the real point, this is the real point that a lot of people miss. They were they focus on the physical aspect. But Adam, when he went to sleep, he was a 100% the perfect man. Made in the image of God. He was the he was the man when he went to sleep. Perfect. In in his creation, the way he was made. Perfect. Think about that. We don't even have, man, we have no example except for Christ. We have no example that we can really look to. Nobody in our um generation or generations except for Christ. Every other man is made in the image of Adam, from fallen Adam, not perfect Adam. So bottom line is this though. When he went to sleep, think about this he was perfect, the perfect man with perfect emotions, thoughts, uh, responses, thinking, everything. The Lord puts him to sleep and removes part of him and makes a woman. And as uh my dear brother Ken Graves, Pastor Ken Graves, he points out, Adam went to sleep a complete man and woke up incomplete, missing some things. He wasn't all there. And I I telling you, I think he I think he was he was missing lacking emotions, uh compass compassion, levels of compassion, the ability to have multiple thoughts simultaneously. Uh he lacked a love for shopping and spending money on credit cards, uh shopping. Um he probably woke up staring at nothing, just staring into space and thinking about nothing. What's on your mind? Nothing. What are you thinking about? Nothing. I think from that day on that was built into every dude to varying degrees. Okay, so I'm not. Painting with a broad brush. Um I think he woke up loving the idea of shopping at Home Depot. Tools and he was ready to blow things up. Guns and explosions and battle and he was ready to race. Isn't it amazing that mankind will find will find a way to race. Whatever type of vehicle they make, they will find a way to race it. I saw, man, they have drone races now. Like you go buy a drone online or whatever, they have like you actually can race your my drone is faster than your drone. Let's see. And they race it. That is a that is a I don't want to say it's just a dude thing, because there are a lot of women that race too. But well, not a lot. Let me say. Not a lot. There you go. That's my case. Drop the mic. Just look at it. Um, I think Adam was ready to get dirty, greasy, in the, you know, get his hands dirty and fix things. And probably the most identifiable thing that happened to Adam after the Lord removed something from him to make Eve was that he had from this point on a tendency to leave the toilet seat up. Like these things, we're definitely different from women, d guys are different from women. Guess where it goes back to? It goes back to the very creation of man and woman. That's where these differences came from. Because Eve was part of Adam. And so now, you know, there's an incompleteness. And many people search for completeness in other people and drugs and all kinds of other things, man. And but the completeness, really, the true completeness comes in knowing the Lord. Being right and being one with him, knowing him. And and then when he brings you your wife, there there is a completeness. There are many things that Katie does that I don't want to say I'm incapable of, but man, it's harder, hard, much harder for me. It's just, I don't know, she's very sensitive to certain things that I'm insensitive to. And there are things that I do that, you know, are more or how do I say that? I'm trying to say this in a in a politically correct way so I don't end up in trouble after this podcast. Can I get an amen? Uh let's just say, you know, me, I'll run through a brick wall, man. I don't I'll run through a brick wall, not even care about it. Whatever. I might complain later. I'm banged up, but you know, just that that mentality where, you know, the feminine side is not trying to do that. Um and I'm I think I'm I'm digging a hole, so I'm gonna get out of this, I'm gonna leave this here. But anyway, the Adam play, we are we are working on that. Please be in prayer about that, because we're also gonna bring that back for some select um showings coming up. A lot of you have not seen that, the Adam Play. And I just feel in my soul that you know, especially going through Genesis, we're going through Genesis as a church, and then in our midweek, we're doing GPS to the Messiah, which starts in Genesis. So I just really feel like wow, there's some things here that would be really cool in the Adam play, and so just be in prayer about that. You know, we're working. This is our time to be really creative and tighten up plays and do things like that before we start touring and getting out there. So and think about that. The next we're told to have patience with our wives, you guys out there, have patience with our wives, and recognize that they are a part of you, a part that God has designed, that God made. Yeah. But he, even though God took ingredients from Adam and aspects of Adam, God still fashioned the woman and brought her to Adam. So this is God's work. So we gotta, oh man, sometimes you know, sometimes you can get frustrated with with your spouse or whatever. Gotta gotta try to remember, wait a second, you know, this is somebody, God made her this way. And ladies, God made him this way and then removed something in him that you have, you have insight that he can't see. He can't detect it because he doesn't even have the radar anymore. You got the radar. Anyway, I think we're out of time. I think we're out of time. I'm so glad to just spend this Friday or whatever day you're watching or listening to this podcast. Thank you for being part of the Plays on Word family. Please keep this ministry in prayer as we um lock in some new tours and some actually some things on the horizon. Possible things on the horizon could be really cool. Plays on word. So keep that in prayer. Until we meet next week. The Lord bless you and keep 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.

Closing Blessing And Support

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