April 18, 2025 • 29 mins
"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 1 (00:00):
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Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
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You're the only name.
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Speaker 1 (01:00):
Hello and welcome to Plays on Word Radio, where we
discuss, analyze, work and playon the Word of God.
Thank you for joining us onthis excursion.
Today let's join Pastor Teddy,also known as Fred David Kenny
Jr, the founder of Plays on WordTheater, as he does a deep dive
into the Word of God.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Amen.
Well, thank you, welcome backto everyone to Plays on Word
Radio.
Thank you very much, katieKenney and Mr Josh Taylor.
Thank you, every single one ofyou, for streaming this,
listening to Plays on Word Radio, wherever you might be.
May the Lord bless you this dayabsolutely.
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Last time we, um, we weregearing up, going, moving
towards last friday, we weremoving towards the triumphal, or
triumphant, entry of the kingand we we spent most of our time
on the raising of Lazarus inJohn, chapter 11.
Great, incredible event.
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And then after that, as far asthe timeline, how things happen,
we look at the triumphal entrywhere the king makes his way
into Jerusalem, and it had allbeen leading up to this king
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entering Jerusalem.
I'm going to read from theGospel of Mark for a second Mark
, chapter 11.
It says now, when they drewnear to Jerusalem, to Bethpage
and Bethany at the Mount ofOlives, jesus sent two of his
disciples and said to them gointo the village in front of you
and immediately as you enter it, you will find a colt tied on
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which no one has ever sat.
Untie it and bring it.
If anyone says to you, why areyou doing this?
Say the Lord has need of it andwill send it back here
immediately.
And they went and they found acolt tied at the door outside in
the street and they untied itand some of those standing there
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said to them what are you doinguntying that colt?
And they said to them what Jesushad said and they let him go
and they brought the colt toJesus and threw their cloaks on
it and he sat on it and manyspread their cloaks on the road
and others spread leafy branches.
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Those are the palm trees, palmbranches that had been cut from
the fields.
And those who went before,those who followed, were
shouting Hosanna, blessed is hewho comes in the name of the
Lord, blessed is the comingkingdom of our father, david.
Hosanna in the highest.
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They're shouting this at thetop of their lungs and it's my
sense of humor, slightly warped,I guess messed up.
This is a biblical example ofgrand theft auto, yeah, condoned
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by Jesus.
Well, it's not really theftbecause he owns everything.
But I just find this comical.
These guys, you know, they tiedup this cult, this donkey and
the two disciples.
They just roll into the town,untie it and I, I don't know.
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I just imagine the guys thatare standing there just chewing
the fat, talking, just hangingout, you know, and all of a
sudden they see these two guysshow up and start untying their
donkey.
They're like whoa, whoa, whoa,whoa.
Hey, what are you doing?
And I almost imagine like aJohn Wayne character sitting
there.
Maybe the donkey is his or hispartner's.
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What are you doing, pilgrim?
Is that donkey yours?
And they say the Lord has needof it and will send it back
immediately.
And they were like, well, allrighty, and they actually let
him.
This is an example of I won'tsay grand theft.
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This is an example of God'sfavor.
He granted these guys favor.
Believe me, had they not hadthe favor of the Lord and they
tried to untie somebody's donkey?
Yeah, that's a guaranteed wayto eat a knuckle sandwich.
Yeah, don't want that.
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And so this week, as we continue, continue, we have the
triumphal entry, the king whothe entire book, the entire
gospel of matthew, is presenting.
This king, the entire gospel ispresenting the king and not
only the earthly king who hasthe right to the throne of David
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.
See through Jesus, you knowJesus, mary and Joseph, through
Joseph was the legal right tothe kingdom to be the king,
going all the way back to KingSolomon, back to King David.
King going all the way back toKing Solomon, back to King David
.
And if the Romans were not incharge of Israel at the time and
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ruling over them, the amazingthing is that Joseph, the
husband of Mary, would have beenthe king, not Herod.
Herod was a fake king.
He was appointed by the Romans.
Yeah, it was a politicalappointment.
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It was not.
That was not a recognizedkingship in god's eyes.
Legally, in god's eyes, the,the recognized kingship, went
down to joseph, the carpenterfrom nazareth.
He's working in a wood shop.
Oh, how the royal have fallen.
He's working.
He's a poor man working in thewood shop, whose wife-to-be, who
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he's betrothed to.
Basically, it's already a donedeal.
The only thing left is theceremony.
She comes and says, hey, I'mpregnant.
What?
Oh my goodness this guy.
Oh my goodness this guy.
But so Jesus had the right to bethe king.
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All the rights of kingship wentto him and the bloodline.
He didn't have Joseph's blood,but the blood line went back to
David as well, but back toNathan, david's other son, not
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Solomon.
And in Jeremiah the kingly lineis the kingly line.
That bloodline is cursed in thesense that there will not be a
king from that bloodline thatwill sit on the throne.
Yet the legal, the legal rightto the throne was never cut off,
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and that's how it goes downthrough joseph and maintains the
uh, jeremiah curse that was puton the, the kingly line of
conia.
I'm getting in the weeds here.
Some of you guys are like whatis 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 questioningit, send me an email.
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And if you're, if you like it,send me an email, let me know.
Let me know what you think.
Either way, though, christ, theking, is the theme of Matthew,
but it's more than just the king.
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He's also God with us, emmanuel, and one of the most
fascinating, one of theabsolutely most fascinating
things is that in the beginningof the Gospel of Matthew, in the
very the first prophecy talksabout how the virgin will.
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This was written to fulfillwhat was written that the virgin
will be with child, she'll givebirth to a son and she will
call him Emmanuel.
And then Matthew says thatmeans God with us, god with us,
god with us.
That's what Emmanuel means.
He gives us a translationthat's early up in the beginning
of the Gospel of Matthew.
At the end of the Gospel ofMatthew, jesus, he gives the
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great commission at the end andhe says go, baptize in the name
of the Father, son and HolySpirit.
And then he goes on to say andlo, I am with you even to the
end of the age.
Well, we kind of I don't knowman, we kind of pass through
that in the Greek.
In the Greek it's, it goes,it's it's way richer than how
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the English presents it.
Lo, I'm with you all the days.
You know it.
In the Greek it basically saysand see, I with you, I am, or I
with you am, all the days, untilthe completion of the age.
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So I with you am, and that isEmmanuel God with us.
Just like in the beginning, hewill be called Emmanuel God with
us.
Just like in the beginning, hewill be called Emmanuel God with
us.
And at the end he's stamping itwith the egoemi of the Greek or
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the I am statement.
But he sandwiches us in themidst of that.
I with you Am what you got tolove the scripture.
I'm what you would call ascripture geek, I guess, but I
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just it's.
You know, scripture is aliveand 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, wetalked about the, the Mandelbrot
set.
Uh, last, yeah, last time.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
No, yeah Was it last time.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I don't remember no, it wasn't last time, it was a
couple of episodes back but itjust continues and continues for
infinity, the Scripture, thedepth of God, the richness of
God.
So we talked about I rememberit was last season, we talked
about the triumphal entry ofJesus and then how he made his
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way to the temple and rememberhow we did the whole teaching on
the fig tree.
I don't remember the exactepisode, but it was cool.
We got a lot of mail on that.
A lot of people were blessed byit, because the fig tree was
basically false advertising,acting like it had fruit on it,
looking like it had fruit, butit did not have any fruit.
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And that was a picture and typeof what the religious leaders
were.
They were acting righteous andthey looked righteous and holy,
but yet there was no fruit thatwas being produced.
Jesus would also call themwhitewashed tombs all clean on
the outside, but yet there wasno fruit that was being produced
.
Jesus would also call themwhitewashed tombs all clean on
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the outside but inside full ofdead man's bones.
And so Jesus then makes his wayinto the temple.
He didn't like what he saw andhe made a whip out of cords,
turned over the table tomoneyers and and said, uh, my
father's house is a house ofprayer, you guys have made it a
den of robbers.
And he turned, he, oh, hecreated a ruckus, he was angry,
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but he didn't sin, and heknocked over the tables.
The coins went all over theplace.
Uh, then they went back to thehouse, um, and then tuesday they
they head back to the templeand when they get back there,
the religious leaders are allbent out of shape and waiting
for him, saying who gave whatgives you the right to do these
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things here?
Who said you could do thesethings here?
And?
And he asked him about John theBaptist, and where did his
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baptism come from?
He basically shut them down.
And this all leads up to thisweek.
What is happening this week?
What we're celebrating?
So these things went down 2,000some years ago, around this
period of time leading up to thePassover, which is Friday today
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, which is Friday today.
So what's so good about thisFriday?
You know you had the Passovermeal and the trials of Christ,
all from last night into themorning, and then today would
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have been Christ put on thecross nine o'clock in the
morning, hung between twoprisoners, and while he's on the
cross, people are saying hetrusts in the Lord.
Let the Lord deliver him.
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Trusts in the Lord, let theLord deliver him.
Let the Lord rescue him, for hedelights in him.
Oh, that wasn't from the NewTestament, that was from the Old
Testament.
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Yet it was fulfilled in the NewTestament and it's also written
in the New Testament In Matthew27, verse 42,.
At the crucifixion, peoplearound the cross and they're
mocking him and the people aresaying he saved others.
He cannot save himself.
He's the king of Israel.
Let him come down now from thecross and we'll believe in him.
Here's the key verse 43.
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He trusts in God.
Let God deliver him now if hedesires him.
For he said I am the son of God.
That's verbatim what was said athousand years before through
the pen and the hand of KingDavid.
King David was never piercedthrough his hands and his feet.
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I'm going to read this.
I want you to listen.
Feel me on this.
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I'm telling you, listen to this.
In you, our fathers trusted.
They trusted and you deliveredthem To you.
They cried and were rescued.
In you, they trusted and werenot put to shame.
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 wagtheir heads.
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He trusts in the Lord.
Let him deliver him, let himrescue him, for he delights in
him.
Yet you are he who took me fromthe womb.
You made me trust, at mymother's breast, on you.
I was cast from my birth andfrom my mother's womb you have
been my God.
Be not far from me, for troubleis near and there is none to
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help.
Many bulls encompass me, strongbulls of Bashan surround me.
They open wide their mouths atme 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 apot shirt.
My tongue sticks to my jaws ata roof of my mouth.
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Some translations say you lay mein the dust of death.
Pay attention to this coming up, for dogs have encompassed me.
A company of evildoersencircles me.
They have pierced my hands andfeet.
What no-transcript.
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They have pierced my hands andmy feet.
This is at least 600, 700 yearsbefore crucifixion was even
invented.
I can count on my bones.
They stare and gloat over meand divide my garments among
them.
For my clothing, they cast lots.
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They cast lots.
That's what they did for Jesus'clothes.
But you, o Lord, do not be faroff.
O, you help me, come quickly tomy aid, deliver my soul from
the sword, my precious life fromthe power of the dog, save me
from the mouth of the lion.
You have rescued me from thehorns of the wild oxen.
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Now look at this part.
I will tell of your name to mybrothers in the midst of the
congregation, I will praise you,you who fear the Lord.
Praise him, all you, offspringof Jacob, glorify him and stand
in awe of him, all of you,offspring of Israel, for he has
not despised or abandoned theaffliction of the afflicted and
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he has not hidden his face fromhim, but has heard when he cried
to him.
From you comes my praise in thecongregation.
My vows I will perform beforethose who fear him.
The afflicted shall eat and besatisfied.
Those who seek him shall praisethe Lord.
May your hearts live forever.
All the ends of the earth shallremember and turn to the Lord
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and all the families of thenations shall worship before you
, for kingship belongs to theLord and he rules over the
nations.
All the prosperous of the earth, eat and worship, bow down
before him.
Yeah, bow, let me get thatright.
All the prosperous of the earth, eat and worship before him
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shall bow.
And all who go down to the dust, even the one who could not
keep himself alive, psalm 22.
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You read that.
And then go read Isaiah 53.
What you got?
A ringside seat.
You have a ringside seat of thecrucifixion.
Much of that, much of it isstraight crucifixion there and
is straight crucifixion there.
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And on this Friday we celebratethat 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 theLord has done it.
He made intercession for thetransgressors.
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He bore the sins of many, borethe sin, took it on himself.
That's the concept.
That's the idea that's why it'ssuch a good Friday today that
he bore my sin and your sin onhim, took it off of us Past,
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present and future, which is athat's a bizarre concept, to
just wrap your mind around.
He was not counting his sinsagainst us in his forbearance,
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and so he took my sin and yoursin and the things that were
keeping us away from thatbarrier.
See, god never forgave sin theway we think of forgiving sin.
He never.
Just, you know, if a judgetoday is going to pardon
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somebody, like a presidentialpardon, that's actually an
injustice, especially whenthey're guilty as sin and the
president comes and pardons them.
Now, if you're not guilty andyou get a pardon, ok, cool,
justice has been served.
But if you're guilty and ajudge says, you know, we're not
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going to throw the book at you.
In fact, I just, you know, paycourt costs or you get a pardon.
That you know.
You walk out and say, oh, I wasforgiven.
The state forgave me of my sin.
No, or my offenses wereforgiven, okay, that's how man
sees forgiveness.
That's not how God does it.
No, god never shoved any guiltunder the rug.
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No, our sin was transferred.
He bore our sin, he sufferedour wrath.
The wrath was poured out on himinstead 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 orcrumpled up on a piece of paper
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and put through the shredder.
No, it was put in a box thatsomeone carried, and that
someone is Christ.
Hallelujah, thank God, he didthat.
That makes me worship, saythank you, be appreciative of
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what he did.
That went down on Friday.
Good Friday, oh, but Sunday'scoming.
If you read Leviticus 23, youwill see Good Friday.
In the Passover, you will seeSaturday, the resting of the
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bread of life, the yeast-freebread of life.
Who is Christ?
The body of Christ that wasbroken and given for us, rested
on the Sabbath day following thePassover, and then Sunday's
coming, and that starts thefeast of first fruits.
Oh, hallelujah, the firstfruits, the firstborn from among
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the dead.
Never to die again.
He didn't need to die in thefirst place, but never, ever to
die again.
Death has been defeated and theresurrection of Christ is the
stamp saying that's right.
So everything he says is nowcertified through the
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resurrection and he verifies theBible that Moses wrote, that
Elijah wrote, that Daniel wroteAll these things these higher
criticism critics like toquestion.
He also says I've called youBefore the foundation of the
world.
You were chosen in him to be inhim.
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Yeah, seated in heavenly places.
When Christ sat down at theright hand of God, he makes an
intercession he's seated inheavenly places, but guess what?
You're seated in heavenlyplaces, because you're seated in
him, because of his great lovethat he displayed for us.
No eye has seen, no ear hasheard what he has prepared for
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those who love Him and we'recalled according to His purposes
.
He can do exceedingly andabundantly, far more than we can
even comprehend, ask or think.
All these things come becausehe defeated death, came out of
the grave and all heaven caughtit.
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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 thathave seen it or might be on the
edge of seeing it.
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Praise be to God for everysingle believer, and I pray
before this program's over.
If you are not a believer rightnow, you will give your life to
the Lord.
Just say Lord, please come intomy life.
I believe that you lived anddied and paid for my sin.
Please forgive me of my sin,come into my life, fill me with
your Holy Spirit, live throughme.
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That guy who's absolutely out ofhis mind on the radio program
there, if he's right.
I want to know you, lord.
I want to know what the truthis.
Come on now.
Any rational human being isgoing to want to know what the
truth is.
You ask him what is the truth?
I guarantee his spirit will letyou know that he is the truth.
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Amen.
My brothers and sisters, maythe 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 shineupon you and be gracious to you
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.
The Lord make his face to shineupon you and be gracious to you
.
The Lord lift up hiscountenance upon you and give
you peace.
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You're the only name.
You're the only name.
You're the only name.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Hello and welcome to Plays on Word Radio, where we
discuss, analyze, work and playon the Word of God.
Thank you for joining us onthis excursion.
Today let's join Pastor Teddy,also known as Fred David Kenny
Jr, the founder of Plays on WordTheater, as he does a deep dive
into the Word of God.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Amen.
Well, thank you, welcome backto everyone to Plays on Word
Radio.
Thank you very much, katieKenney and Mr Josh Taylor.
Thank you, every single one ofyou, for streaming this,
listening to Plays on Word Radio, wherever you might be.
May the Lord bless you this dayabsolutely.
(01:49):
Last time we, um, we weregearing up, going, moving
towards last friday, we weremoving towards the triumphal, or
triumphant, entry of the kingand we we spent most of our time
on the raising of Lazarus inJohn, chapter 11.
Great, incredible event.
(02:10):
And then after that, as far asthe timeline, how things happen,
we look at the triumphal entrywhere the king makes his way
into Jerusalem, and it had allbeen leading up to this king
(02:33):
entering Jerusalem.
I'm going to read from theGospel of Mark for a second Mark
, chapter 11.
It says now, when they drewnear to Jerusalem, to Bethpage
and Bethany at the Mount ofOlives, jesus sent two of his
disciples and said to them gointo the village in front of you
and immediately as you enter it, you will find a colt tied on
(02:55):
which no one has ever sat.
Untie it and bring it.
If anyone says to you, why areyou doing this?
Say the Lord has need of it andwill send it back here
immediately.
And they went and they found acolt tied at the door outside in
the street and they untied itand some of those standing there
(03:19):
said to them what are you doinguntying that colt?
And they said to them what Jesushad said and they let him go
and they brought the colt toJesus and threw their cloaks on
it and he sat on it and manyspread their cloaks on the road
and others spread leafy branches.
(03:41):
Those are the palm trees, palmbranches that had been cut from
the fields.
And those who went before,those who followed, were
shouting Hosanna, blessed is hewho comes in the name of the
Lord, blessed is the comingkingdom of our father, david.
Hosanna in the highest.
(04:02):
They're shouting this at thetop of their lungs and it's my
sense of humor, slightly warped,I guess messed up.
This is a biblical example ofgrand theft auto, yeah, condoned
(04:27):
by Jesus.
Well, it's not really theftbecause he owns everything.
But I just find this comical.
These guys, you know, they tiedup this cult, this donkey and
the two disciples.
They just roll into the town,untie it and I, I don't know.
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I just imagine the guys thatare standing there just chewing
the fat, talking, just hangingout, you know, and all of a
sudden they see these two guysshow up and start untying their
donkey.
They're like whoa, whoa, whoa,whoa.
Hey, what are you doing?
And I almost imagine like aJohn Wayne character sitting
there.
Maybe the donkey is his or hispartner's.
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What are you doing, pilgrim?
Is that donkey yours?
And they say the Lord has needof it and will send it back
immediately.
And they were like, well, allrighty, and they actually let
him.
This is an example of I won'tsay grand theft.
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This is an example of God'sfavor.
He granted these guys favor.
Believe me, had they not hadthe favor of the Lord and they
tried to untie somebody's donkey?
Yeah, that's a guaranteed wayto eat a knuckle sandwich.
Yeah, don't want that.
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And so this week, as we continue, continue, we have the
triumphal entry, the king whothe entire book, the entire
gospel of matthew, is presenting.
This king, the entire gospel ispresenting the king and not
only the earthly king who hasthe right to the throne of David
(06:29):
.
See through Jesus, you knowJesus, mary and Joseph, through
Joseph was the legal right tothe kingdom to be the king,
going all the way back to KingSolomon, back to King David.
King going all the way back toKing Solomon, back to King David
.
And if the Romans were not incharge of Israel at the time and
(06:56):
ruling over them, the amazingthing is that Joseph, the
husband of Mary, would have beenthe king, not Herod.
Herod was a fake king.
He was appointed by the Romans.
Yeah, it was a politicalappointment.
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It was not.
That was not a recognizedkingship in god's eyes.
Legally, in god's eyes, the,the recognized kingship, went
down to joseph, the carpenterfrom nazareth.
He's working in a wood shop.
Oh, how the royal have fallen.
He's working.
He's a poor man working in thewood shop, whose wife-to-be, who
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he's betrothed to.
Basically, it's already a donedeal.
The only thing left is theceremony.
She comes and says, hey, I'mpregnant.
What?
Oh my goodness this guy.
Oh my goodness this guy.
But so Jesus had the right to bethe king.
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All the rights of kingship wentto him and the bloodline.
He didn't have Joseph's blood,but the blood line went back to
David as well, but back toNathan, david's other son, not
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Solomon.
And in Jeremiah the kingly lineis the kingly line.
That bloodline is cursed in thesense that there will not be a
king from that bloodline thatwill sit on the throne.
Yet the legal, the legal rightto the throne was never cut off,
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and that's how it goes downthrough joseph and maintains the
uh, jeremiah curse that was puton the, the kingly line of
conia.
I'm getting in the weeds here.
Some of you guys are like whatis 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 questioningit, send me an email.
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And if you're, if you like it,send me an email, let me know.
Let me know what you think.
Either way, though, christ, theking, is the theme of Matthew,
but it's more than just the king.
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He's also God with us, emmanuel, and one of the most
fascinating, one of theabsolutely most fascinating
things is that in the beginningof the Gospel of Matthew, in the
very the first prophecy talksabout how the virgin will.
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This was written to fulfillwhat was written that the virgin
will be with child, she'll givebirth to a son and she will
call him Emmanuel.
And then Matthew says thatmeans God with us, god with us,
god with us.
That's what Emmanuel means.
He gives us a translationthat's early up in the beginning
of the Gospel of Matthew.
At the end of the Gospel ofMatthew, jesus, he gives the
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great commission at the end andhe says go, baptize in the name
of the Father, son and HolySpirit.
And then he goes on to say andlo, I am with you even to the
end of the age.
Well, we kind of I don't knowman, we kind of pass through
that in the Greek.
In the Greek it's, it goes,it's it's way richer than how
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the English presents it.
Lo, I'm with you all the days.
You know it.
In the Greek it basically saysand see, I with you, I am, or I
with you am, all the days, untilthe completion of the age.
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So I with you am, and that isEmmanuel God with us.
Just like in the beginning, hewill be called Emmanuel God with
us.
Just like in the beginning, hewill be called Emmanuel God with
us.
And at the end he's stamping itwith the egoemi of the Greek or
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the I am statement.
But he sandwiches us in themidst of that.
I with you Am what you got tolove the scripture.
I'm what you would call ascripture geek, I guess, but I
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just it's.
You know, scripture is aliveand 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, wetalked about the, the Mandelbrot
set.
Uh, last, yeah, last time.
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No, yeah Was it last time.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I don't remember no, it wasn't last time, it was a
couple of episodes back but itjust continues and continues for
infinity, the Scripture, thedepth of God, the richness of
God.
So we talked about I rememberit was last season, we talked
about the triumphal entry ofJesus and then how he made his
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way to the temple and rememberhow we did the whole teaching on
the fig tree.
I don't remember the exactepisode, but it was cool.
We got a lot of mail on that.
A lot of people were blessed byit, because the fig tree was
basically false advertising,acting like it had fruit on it,
looking like it had fruit, butit did not have any fruit.
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And that was a picture and typeof what the religious leaders
were.
They were acting righteous andthey looked righteous and holy,
but yet there was no fruit thatwas being produced.
Jesus would also call themwhitewashed tombs all clean on
the outside, but yet there wasno fruit that was being produced
.
Jesus would also call themwhitewashed tombs all clean on
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the outside but inside full ofdead man's bones.
And so Jesus then makes his wayinto the temple.
He didn't like what he saw andhe made a whip out of cords,
turned over the table tomoneyers and and said, uh, my
father's house is a house ofprayer, you guys have made it a
den of robbers.
And he turned, he, oh, hecreated a ruckus, he was angry,
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but he didn't sin, and heknocked over the tables.
The coins went all over theplace.
Uh, then they went back to thehouse, um, and then tuesday they
they head back to the templeand when they get back there,
the religious leaders are allbent out of shape and waiting
for him, saying who gave whatgives you the right to do these
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things here?
Who said you could do thesethings here?
And?
And he asked him about John theBaptist, and where did his
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baptism come from?
He basically shut them down.
And this all leads up to thisweek.
What is happening this week?
What we're celebrating?
So these things went down 2,000some years ago, around this
period of time leading up to thePassover, which is Friday today
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, which is Friday today.
So what's so good about thisFriday?
You know you had the Passovermeal and the trials of Christ,
all from last night into themorning, and then today would
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have been Christ put on thecross nine o'clock in the
morning, hung between twoprisoners, and while he's on the
cross, people are saying hetrusts in the Lord.
Let the Lord deliver him.
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Trusts in the Lord, let theLord deliver him.
Let the Lord rescue him, for hedelights in him.
Oh, that wasn't from the NewTestament, that was from the Old
Testament.
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Yet it was fulfilled in the NewTestament and it's also written
in the New Testament In Matthew27, verse 42,.
At the crucifixion, peoplearound the cross and they're
mocking him and the people aresaying he saved others.
He cannot save himself.
He's the king of Israel.
Let him come down now from thecross and we'll believe in him.
Here's the key verse 43.
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He trusts in God.
Let God deliver him now if hedesires him.
For he said I am the son of God.
That's verbatim what was said athousand years before through
the pen and the hand of KingDavid.
King David was never piercedthrough his hands and his feet.
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I'm going to read this.
I want you to listen.
Feel me on this.
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I'm telling you, listen to this.
In you, our fathers trusted.
They trusted and you deliveredthem To you.
They cried and were rescued.
In you, they trusted and werenot put to shame.
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 wagtheir heads.
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He trusts in the Lord.
Let him deliver him, let himrescue him, for he delights in
him.
Yet you are he who took me fromthe womb.
You made me trust, at mymother's breast, on you.
I was cast from my birth andfrom my mother's womb you have
been my God.
Be not far from me, for troubleis near and there is none to
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help.
Many bulls encompass me, strongbulls of Bashan surround me.
They open wide their mouths atme 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 apot shirt.
My tongue sticks to my jaws ata roof of my mouth.
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Some translations say you lay mein the dust of death.
Pay attention to this coming up, for dogs have encompassed me.
A company of evildoersencircles me.
They have pierced my hands andfeet.
What no-transcript.
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They have pierced my hands andmy feet.
This is at least 600, 700 yearsbefore crucifixion was even
invented.
I can count on my bones.
They stare and gloat over meand divide my garments among
them.
For my clothing, they cast lots.
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They cast lots.
That's what they did for Jesus'clothes.
But you, o Lord, do not be faroff.
O, you help me, come quickly tomy aid, deliver my soul from
the sword, my precious life fromthe power of the dog, save me
from the mouth of the lion.
You have rescued me from thehorns of the wild oxen.
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Now look at this part.
I will tell of your name to mybrothers in the midst of the
congregation, I will praise you,you who fear the Lord.
Praise him, all you, offspringof Jacob, glorify him and stand
in awe of him, all of you,offspring of Israel, for he has
not despised or abandoned theaffliction of the afflicted and
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he has not hidden his face fromhim, but has heard when he cried
to him.
From you comes my praise in thecongregation.
My vows I will perform beforethose who fear him.
The afflicted shall eat and besatisfied.
Those who seek him shall praisethe Lord.
May your hearts live forever.
All the ends of the earth shallremember and turn to the Lord
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and all the families of thenations shall worship before you
, for kingship belongs to theLord and he rules over the
nations.
All the prosperous of the earth, eat and worship, bow down
before him.
Yeah, bow, let me get thatright.
All the prosperous of the earth, eat and worship before him
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shall bow.
And all who go down to the dust, even the one who could not
keep himself alive, psalm 22.
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You read that.
And then go read Isaiah 53.
What you got?
A ringside seat.
You have a ringside seat of thecrucifixion.
Much of that, much of it isstraight crucifixion there and
is straight crucifixion there.
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And on this Friday we celebratethat 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 theLord has done it.
He made intercession for thetransgressors.
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He bore the sins of many, borethe sin, took it on himself.
That's the concept.
That's the idea that's why it'ssuch a good Friday today that
he bore my sin and your sin onhim, took it off of us Past,
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present and future, which is athat's a bizarre concept, to
just wrap your mind around.
He was not counting his sinsagainst us in his forbearance,
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and so he took my sin and yoursin and the things that were
keeping us away from thatbarrier.
See, god never forgave sin theway we think of forgiving sin.
He never.
Just, you know, if a judgetoday is going to pardon
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somebody, like a presidentialpardon, that's actually an
injustice, especially whenthey're guilty as sin and the
president comes and pardons them.
Now, if you're not guilty andyou get a pardon, ok, cool,
justice has been served.
But if you're guilty and ajudge says, you know, we're not
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going to throw the book at you.
In fact, I just, you know, paycourt costs or you get a pardon.
That you know.
You walk out and say, oh, I wasforgiven.
The state forgave me of my sin.
No, or my offenses wereforgiven, okay, that's how man
sees forgiveness.
That's not how God does it.
No, god never shoved any guiltunder the rug.
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No, our sin was transferred.
He bore our sin, he sufferedour wrath.
The wrath was poured out on himinstead 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 orcrumpled up on a piece of paper
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and put through the shredder.
No, it was put in a box thatsomeone carried, and that
someone is Christ.
Hallelujah, thank God, he didthat.
That makes me worship, saythank you, be appreciative of
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what he did.
That went down on Friday.
Good Friday, oh, but Sunday'scoming.
If you read Leviticus 23, youwill see Good Friday.
In the Passover, you will seeSaturday, the resting of the
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bread of life, the yeast-freebread of life.
Who is Christ?
The body of Christ that wasbroken and given for us, rested
on the Sabbath day following thePassover, and then Sunday's
coming, and that starts thefeast of first fruits.
Oh, hallelujah, the firstfruits, the firstborn from among
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the dead.
Never to die again.
He didn't need to die in thefirst place, but never, ever to
die again.
Death has been defeated and theresurrection of Christ is the
stamp saying that's right.
So everything he says is nowcertified through the
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resurrection and he verifies theBible that Moses wrote, that
Elijah wrote, that Daniel wroteAll these things these higher
criticism critics like toquestion.
He also says I've called youBefore the foundation of the
world.
You were chosen in him to be inhim.
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Yeah, seated in heavenly places.
When Christ sat down at theright hand of God, he makes an
intercession he's seated inheavenly places, but guess what?
You're seated in heavenlyplaces, because you're seated in
him, because of his great lovethat he displayed for us.
No eye has seen, no ear hasheard what he has prepared for
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those who love Him and we'recalled according to His purposes
.
He can do exceedingly andabundantly, far more than we can
even comprehend, ask or think.
All these things come becausehe defeated death, came out of
the grave and all heaven caughtit.
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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 thathave seen it or might be on the
edge of seeing it.
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Praise be to God for everysingle believer, and I pray
before this program's over.
If you are not a believer rightnow, you will give your life to
the Lord.
Just say Lord, please come intomy life.
I believe that you lived anddied and paid for my sin.
Please forgive me of my sin,come into my life, fill me with
your Holy Spirit, live throughme.
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That guy who's absolutely out ofhis mind on the radio program
there, if he's right.
I want to know you, lord.
I want to know what the truthis.
Come on now.
Any rational human being isgoing to want to know what the
truth is.
You ask him what is the truth?
I guarantee his spirit will letyou know that he is the truth.
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Amen.
My brothers and sisters, maythe 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 shineupon you and be gracious to you
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.
The Lord make his face to shineupon you and be gracious to you
.
The Lord lift up hiscountenance upon you and give
you peace.
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