Luke 11:5-8, “And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves; For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him? And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee. I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.”
Very few people understand what it means to truly be a friend. Jesus tells a helpful illustration of 'A Friend At Midnight.' A neighbour has an unannounced friend visit him at midnight, who is hungry from his long journey, but the man has no bread to feed his friend. So, he goes to his next door neighbour and pleads for bread for his friend who is visiting, but the neighbor is sleeping and tells him to go away. The desperate neighbor is relentless and refuses to go away until he gets some bread for his hungry friend. Finally, his neighbor relents and gives him the bread.
The hero is in story is the caring neighbour who won't go away until he gets some food for his hungry friend. That is what a true friend does, he helps someone when they are in need. Have you ever shared your burden with someone who you considered a friend, but they didn't seem to care? I know that painful feeling. More times than I can remember in life, when I was at the bottom of life and discouraged, people that I thought were my friend crapped on me.
If you confide in someone to share your marital problems with them; someone who claims to be your friend, but they completely ignore you, they are either a selfish jerk or they're being holier-than-thou self righteous. I've met a lot of hypocritical churchgoers like that, religious snobs who look down on others who aren't regularly church attendees. Either way, they're not being a friend at all. I cannot remember one time in 24 years of website ministry when I ignored someone who shared their burdens, problems and broken heart with me.
Dear reader, be a friend to your family and friends. Sometimes the best thing you can do is just a hurting individual know that you will pray for them, and that you sincerely care. If you don't care, just say and do nothing and they'll know that you couldn't care less, or that you are condemning them in your own self-righteous mind. And shame on you if that shoe fits!
Pastor Steven Anderson has been under malicious attack for the past year, being slandered falsely by his four oldest spoiled brat adult children. It is wrong to air one's family's dirty laundry in public. The brats have even talked about what their Mom and Dad do in their own private bedroom (Hebrews 13:4). Despite their rebellious behavior, I see four brilliant young adults who are well groomed, intelligent, educated, hard working and impressive. I've been praying for the whole family because I care.
Brother Anderson's wicked enemies who hate the LORD have shamefully exploited the Anderson's children in a malicious attempt to destroy him and his ministry. They are looking for weaknesses to exploit for their own financial gain. Greedy film maker Paul Wittenberger is selling has new wicked “Man of God” slanderous video for $50, asking for higher donations. The video features Pastor Anderson's disgruntled adult children attacking their parents. What an ungodly sinner! Woe unto Paul when he answers to God in eternity. Don't ever forget that Satan is “the accuser of the brethren” (Revelation 12:10b).
By God's grace, I have been a friend at midnight to Pastor Anderson, to encourage him in the LORD. We are ministry friends. Faithful Word Baptist Church led 10,121 lost sinners to Jesus Christ in 2025-2026. That is awesome! I and Brother Anderson don't agree on several doctrinal issues, but we are both aggressive soulwinners. We agree on the Gospel of free grace. We agree on the inspiration of the King James Bible. We share a common bond of a love for the truth and righteousness. I refuse to be a fair-weather friend, which equates to being a phony.
“We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.” —Benjamin Franklin
I am going to stand with the faithful fundamentalist Bible preacher who is preaching unapologetically against sin. I am going to stand with the Bible preacher who exposes false prophets, false religions, false bibles and false doctrines. RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS! Ephesians 6:13, “Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.”“I've been preaching a long time, and I've watched a lot of things happen. To me the saddest thing that I've watched in my life, apart from my own country going to the Devil nearly, has been the change of preachers and churches. I find myself amazed and stunned with near disbelief, as I see men who once stood who don't stand anymore ... I know every week I cry some, I mean cry, I mean tear cry, because of preachers who are turning.”
SOURCE: Pastor Jack Hyles, from the 1972 sermon titled, “I Shall Not Be Moved”
Please don't ever become holier than thou dear reader. The Bible teaches to view others as being BETTER THAN OURSELVES. Philippians 2:3, “Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.” That is a command from almighty God! If you avoid and look down on a Christian that you think is not living up to YOUR expectations, you are not right with God.
Even if someone knows better and are choosing to live in open sin, you should at least show concern to let them know that you care, and that you are praying for that individual and their family, and that it is not your place to condemn them. You are not God. Judges 4:12, “There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?” If you don't, you've been brainwashed by some religious cult. Your hatred evidenced that you are not closely walking with your Creator. God doesn't have love, God is love. Saints who walk with God are full of unconditional love for all sinners, not just the righteous. ...“If we could ever hate the sin in ourselves as much as we hate the sin in others, we might have some idea what His [God's] Book is all about.” —Pastor Jack Hyles (a quote from page 322 of the awesome biography of Dr. Hyles titled, “The Fundamental Man,” by Mrs. Cindy Hyles Schaap)
There is a woeful lack of love and compassion in nearly all Bible colleges and churches today. Tragically, ninety-nine percent of pastors and their wives are only in the ministry for the INCOME, not the OUTCOME. Ephesians 4:30-32, “And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”
I have been kicked out of the last five churches I've attended; namely, Agana Heights Baptist Church on Guam, Harvest Baptist Church on Guam, Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College, Smyrna Baptist Church in Pensacola and Family Baptist Church in Pensacola. Those cults have hateful hypocrites as pastors. They are illegitimate ministers who are wrong on God's simple plan of salvation. They have hatred toward sinners. They kicked me out of their cults. They all made an issue, not me. They had a problem with me as a fundamentalist Bible preacher! I've been kicked out of churches by ungodly neo-evangelical pastors. These are perilous times (2nd Timothy 3:1-7). It's best to just stay home and listen to solid preaching from the internet if you cannot find a doctrinally sound local church to attend.
I encourage you dear reader to be a friend to your friends. If some wicked pastor kicks you out of his church (it's not God's church), that pastor was never your friend at all. A true friend helps a friend to see. I have been a true friend to pastors' Marty Herron, Jeff Redlin, Bobby and Brad Moffett and Bill Adams (to name but a few), but they are wicked neo-evangelical pastors who couldn't care less about loving people or right doctrine. Any church that distributes Chick Tracts is pulling on the same rope as the Devil. Jack Chick (1924-2016) was wrong on Bible repentance!
I have been a true friend to a bunch of ungodly money-driven rotten neo-evangelical pastors who have no business standing behind any pulpit. Proverbs 12:17, “He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.” Humans by nature are stupid. They will (with few exceptions) follow anyone who leads them, no matter how wrong they are on God's Word. Very few people search the Scriptures as Jesus commanded in John 5:39. Instead, they will follow any fool who claims to speak for God, fools like Bobby Moffett at the demonic Family Baptist Church cult in Pensacola (they falsely preach that you must turn away from past sinful ways to get to Heaven). I was a friend to them, but they kicked me and my wife out in June of 2025. Woe unto those evil pastors on Judgment Day (Jeremiah 5:31).
Being a friend at midnight can mean a bunch of different things. It can mean telling the truth to a church that has become corrupted by false doctrine. It can mean encouraging a friend going through marital troubles. I had a guy contact me today about his marital problems. I poured out my heart to help and encourage him, as his Brother in Christ (1st Peter 5:9). I am going to be a friend at midnight to anyone who needs my help. Thank you for reading my ministry blog.