Biblical Moments with Frank King

The World When Jesus Returns (Episode 159)

In this episode, Frank King addresses what the world will be like leading up to the return of Christ and what Christians refer to as the rapture of the church. The rapture refers to the time when Christ will descend from heaven, though He will not physically touch earth, and all who are in Christ, both the dead and the living, will be gathered in the air to meet the Lord. Then shall they ever be with Him. Paul addresses this event in 1 Thess. 4:17.
Jesus compares His return to the days of Noah when the floods came. “But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be,” He said (Matt. 24:37, KJV). As Noah built the ark to prepare for the flood, the people of the world were eating and drinking and marrying. They knew nothing until the flood came and took them all away (vv. 38-39).
Similarly, when Jesus returns, most people will be taken by surprise. Jesus says, “Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left” (verse 40). This event, the return of Christ and the rapture, will occur throughout the world at one time in history in the twinkling of an eye.
If Jesus returns at night while we sleep, those who are saved will be taken to meet Him, and those who are not saved will be left behind. For those aboard a plane at the time, if the pilot is a Christian, he will be taken, and those aboard who are not saved will be left behind. Jesus knows those who are His.  Not one person who is saved will be left behind at His return, and not one unsaved person will be mistakenly gathered to the Lord.
Nothing in our life should be more important than to be ready when Jesus returns. Ironically, that’s one of the subjects we seldom talk about in the local church. In some churches, you can hear preaching weekly about prosperity and God’s desire to shower blessings upon you. Or you can hear about spiritual gifts and particularly the prophetic ministry. But how often do we hear messages on the return of the Lord and the need for us to live in readiness for Him?

Developing a Christian Mindset (Episode 158)

Just because a person is a Christian does not mean his life will reflect a Christian mindset. What that tells us is that having a Christian mindset in life is not incidental to becoming a Christian.
In Paul’s letter to the church at Philippi he writes, “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2:5, KJV). More accurately, this is an appeal for us to have the same mindset as Christ. In this episode, Frank King addresses some areas of Christian living that are vital to developing a Christian mindset. These areas are found in chapter four of Paul’s letter to the Philippians.
Paul’s appeal is consistent with who we are as Christians. But some Christians will read the verses focused upon in the episode and dismiss them because some believers don’t think they can live accordingly. But God never calls on us to live on a level that He has not equipped us to live on. In Christ, He has changed our lives to live a Christlike life. Success won’t happen overnight, but if we never take the first step, we will never get there.
We have a saying in life that attitude determines altitude. This is true in our walk with Christ as well. For instance, when we commit to rejoicing always, and to not living in anxiety mode, and to occupying our mind with thoughts that are honest and pure and of good virtue, as Paul writes, our doing so will take us to another place in our relationship with the Lord. But if we are always having a pity party and worrying about everything in life and thinking negatively, the devil will have a field day with us. How committed are you to developing a Christian mindset?

Doing More Than the Norm to Win (Episode 157)

According to the Bible, the devil is our adversary, and as a roaring lion he goes about seeking whom he may destroy (1 Peter 5:8). That one verse is the reason for a lot of the things happening in our world today. Not all the things you and I face in this life stem from normal occurrences. Some of them are the result of spiritual opposition. In this episode, Evangelist Frank King explains why sometimes, we must do more than the norm to receive from the Lord.
In Matthew’s record of the gospel, he tells of a man who brought his epileptic son to the disciples, and they could not heal him. When the man told Jesus about this, He was disappointed with the disciples. That’s because at this point, Jesus had given the disciples the power to heal the sick and to cast out demons (Matthew 10:1). So, they had power to do what needed to be done, but when they did what they had done in the past, it didn’t get the job done.
Subsequently, Jesus healed the man’s son. If it was not the will of God for the young man to be healed, Jesus would not have been able to heal him either. And remember, Jesus had given the disciples the power to heal the sick and cast our devils. This power was the very thing this epileptic young man needed to be healed.
The disciples came to Jesus and wanted to know why He could heal the young man and they could not. Jesus replied, “Because of your unbelief” (Matthew 17:20, KJV). “Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer AND fasting,” Jesus added (verse 21).
In effect, Jesus was saying that this one is not business as usual. In this case, the disciples needed to do more than the usual to minister healing. Yes, they needed to pray, they needed to have faith, but in this case, they needed to fast as well. The point is that sometimes, it’s not true that it’s not the will of God to do what we ask of Him. But sometimes, we need to go deeper, fight a little harder in the spiritual realm to get what we need from the Lord.

Faith in God (Episode 156)

Our faith is only as good as the person or thing we choose to place our faith in. In this episode, Frank King addresses Jesus’ commandment for us to have faith in God.
At times we all struggle with exercising our faith in God. In Hebrews 11:6, we find two important requirements for exercising faith in God. One, the verse says we must believe that God exists. All genuine believers get an A-plus on that one. Secondly, this verse says we must believe God rewards those who diligently seek Him. That last part is the challenge. Faith requires us to hang in there with God. And too many people today are too spiritually impotent to endure that.
One day, as Jesus was headed to the temple in Jerusalem, He was hungry, and He saw this fig tree. He came to the tree hoping to find some figs. Because the tree was barren, Jesus cursed the tree. The next day, He and His disciples passed that same tree and it was dead. Peter remembered that Jesus had cursed the tree the day before.  So, he says, Master, the fig tree you cursed is withered away. Jesus replied, “Have faith in God” (Matthew 11:22, KJV). He said those words to reveal the means by which He had cursed the tree. He did it by faith in God.
Faith in God revolutionizes our outlook on life. We no longer live in bondage of the fear of dying. Even if the economy were to tank so that everybody’s worried about it, we believe that God is able to sustain us even then. That’s what having faith in God will do for us.
We are so blessed to be able to go to the house of God each week and hear the good news of the gospel. We are blessed to have Christian TV and programming we can watch and listen to deepen our faith.
It is our faith in God that determines the quality of Christian life we can have. Not how often we go to the house of God. Nor the kind of church we attend. But it’s our faith that determines that. The healthier your faith in God is, the more vibrant and victorious your Christian life will be.

The Relationship Between Your Heart and God's Word (Episode 155)

What is the relationship between your heart and God’s Word? In the parable found in Matthew, chapter 13; the takeaway is that we can know a lot about the heart of a person solely by how that person interacts with the Word of God. In this parable, Jesus addresses four types of hearers. Each of us should be able to see ourselves in one of these four types of hearers.
The message of this parable is cut and dry. It says, in effect, either you have a solid relationship with the Lord, or you don't, and that is reflected in your interaction with the Word of God. In other words, there is a dynamic chemistry that exists between God’s Word and the heart that God has changed.
In this parable, the seed fell upon four different kinds of ground. Some fell by the wayside, some in stony places, some among the thorns, and some into good ground. And it was the type of soil that determined what became of the seed.
If you plant good seed in good soil, you will get a good yield. If you plant good seed in bad soil, however, you won’t get a good yield. This is not to minimize the importance of a preacher’s ability to minister the Word of God effectively. But it does not matter how good his communication skills are, when he sows seed in the heart of a person whose heart is bad soil, the yield will be little if any.
In the parable, the Sower represents the preacher, the seed represents the Word of God, and the soil represents the heart of the listener. Of course, if you want to please the Lord, your heart must become like good soil so God's Word can be fruitful in you.

A Prophet Like Moses (Episode 154)

Moses was one of the most phenomenal people we read and learn about in the OT. At one point, God spoke with Moses face to face as a man does with a friend (Ex. 33:11). Moses had a special relationship with God because it was through the mouth of Moses that God spoke to His people. That brings us to the subject of the office of the prophet. They were the messengers of God for speaking to His people.
In this episode, Frank King focuses on the prophetic role that Moses played in the life of God’s people during His day. Frank says this was a foreshadow of the role Christ would play in the life of God’s people when He came.
Moses told the Israelites that one day God was going to send them a special prophet. “The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen, you shall listen to him,” Moses said (Deuteronomy 18:15, NASB). A key point here is that Moses said this person is going to be a prophet like himself. Moses was in effect the mouth of God to the people of God. Similarly, when Jesus came on earth, He was the mouth of God to the people of God.
Moses said three noteworthy things to the people about the words of this prophet (verses 18-19):
“I will put My words in His mouth”
“He shall speak to them all that I command him”
“Whoever will not listen to My words which he shall speak in My name, I Myself will require it of him”
Jesus Is That Prophet
Heretofore, we have assumed that the prophet Moses talked about was Jesus himself. But how can we validate that? Consider these words of Peter: “Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brethren; to Him you shall give heed to everything He says to you’” (Acts 3:23).
 Peter said these words as he challenged the Jews to repent regarding their rejection of Christ to let them know that He was prophet promised them by God. Jesus plays that same prophetic role to us today. God is speaking to us in these last days by His Son (Heb 1:2). Let us hear Him.

Is Anything Too Hard for the Lord? (Episode 153)

At times, we face problems that are too big for us. Nothing in the Bible assures us that that will never be the case. That’s why our faith in God is so important. Let’s face it; had He created us to be self-sufficient so we could solve all of our own problems, we wouldn’t need to have faith in God. But the truth is that we all have limitations, and when life takes us beyond those limits, we must look to God. In this episode, Frank shares a message of encouragement, reminding us that nothing is too hard for the Lord.
In this episode, Frank uses the experience of Abraham and Sarah as an example. Abraham was 100 and Sarah was 90 when God blessed them with a child God had promised to them 25 years earlier. Furthermore, Sarah was born barren. Based upon their reality, what Abraham and Sarah wanted at this point was humanly impossible. But it was not impossible with God. The angel of the Lord said according to the time of life, I shall return and Sarah your wife will have a son.
We often talk about God in terms of natural reasoning. It’s as if we think God can only get something done while natural circumstances are favorable to the situation. We think that if God waits too long, even He can’t do anything about our situation. But natural circumstances don’t have to be favorable for God to work on your behalf. God can still work on your behalf even when natural circumstances are not in your favor.
Sarah laughed at the angel’s promise. Then the angel asked the question, “Is anything too hard for the Lord?” (Genesis 18:14, KJV).
The Importance of Faith
What should be abundantly clear here is the importance of our faith in God. So, in Psalm 27:13, the psalmist writes, “I had fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living” (Psalm 27:13). He is saying that the thing that kept him from giving up, the only thing that kept him from going under, was that he believed he was going to see the goodness of the Lord.
When you are faced with difficult situations, when you are faced with a problem for which there seems to be no answer, what’s going to keep you moving, what’s going to keep you from giving up, what’s going to keep you from despairing is that you believe you are going to see the goodness of the Lord. So, the answer to the question posed by the title of this episode is no, there is nothing too hard for the Lord.

Becoming a Mature Christian (Episode 152)

Think about your relationship with Christ a year ago. And think about your relationship with Him today. From year to year, your relationship with Him should be moving in a positive direction. The truth is, however, that is not what’s happening in every Christian’s life. In this episode, Frank King teaches on the importance of becoming a mature Christian.
In the book of Hebrews, the writer addresses a problem that exists with many believers. He writes, “For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food” (Hebrews 5:12, NASB).
One important reason God wants us to mature as Christians is so that He can use us to serve Him. We come to church to worship God, but we also come to be equipped to serve God more effectively. There is a dying world out there depending on Christians reaching out to it with the life-changing gospel of our Lord.
But the verse highlights a serious problem. The writer talks about people who had been Christians and who had been coming to church so long that by now they should be able to teach others. But he says, instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic stuff about being a Christian. In other words, because they were not growing, they were actually going backward.
This is a serious problem with Christians failing to grow.  That is, if you are not growing as a Christian, you are not getting to the place where God can use you like He wants to use you.
Salvation is Just the Beginning
When students assemble to graduate from high school or college, we refer to those assemblies as commencement exercises. Now the word commencement refers to a beginning and not an end. But even though the graduates are ending their high school or college experience, the graduation is called a commencement exercise.
It is called a commencement exercise because when you graduate, you have not arrived, but you have only just begun. Your education gives you some tools, a skillset for embarking upon life. What your life becomes, however, depends upon what you do with the skillset you have.
The same is true when you accept Christ. It’s not a graduation; it is but a commencement. You have not arrived; you have only just begun. Upon salvation, God gives you everything you need to become a mature and productive Christian. What your life becomes, however, is dependent upon what you do with what God has imparted to you. That’s why it’s important for you to become a mature Christian.