ARCHBISHOP GILBERT DEYA has been hitting headlines since 2004. A Biography has been written about him, but otherwise I have not been able to discover much about him prior to that date. TODAY he is exposed as a con artist of the first degree, and perhaps amongst the worst ever. And, very sad to say, he is a Kenyan, and a man who has pretended to be a follower of the Christian Faith. In the Press we are told that he was even in line to be appointed Kenya's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom!! Even though his name was already being polluted! How terrible is our world. A world where all our values and standards are being eroded and cast aside. But of course the Archbishop is a self made man - he founded his own Denomination, and appointed himself Archbishop. Perhaps he never had any real personal values and standards of his own - at least none that put God and a Holy life first. It is said that his wife and others have been trafficking in children - some of them no doubt then also became 'miracle babies' produced by previously infertile or otherwise barren women that Mr. Deya prayed for. But now he is discovered as a charlatan who has consistently enriched himself at the expense of 'silly women'. The amazing thing is that he has been enabled to delude so many for so long, building a fast growing denomination in a Country not his own on an apparent gimmick! In accomplishing it all he has been well used in assisting to promote the general discreditisation of the Christian Faith as a whole.

Sixty years ago - in England - the Christian Faith was respected and its preachers honoured. Today this attitude has crumbled. At every opportunity the media has exposed the duplicity of those espousing Christ, accusing them of being dishonest, money grasping, sensationalist, immoral and perverted - both relative to the Laity and the Priesthood. Hard for a sincere Christian to accept - BUT, after all the Christian knows better than any, that in the Last Days FALSE teachers and preachers will arise out of the Christian Community; vile pretenders seeking to destroy and pull down all faith in Christ. Empowered and inspired by the Devil himself, they are today multiplied and implanted everywhere - and yes EVEN more to be found within the Church.
Have you realised that some of those who have clamoured the loudest for licentious reforms that tone down the Word of God, and downgrade public morality are not only pastors and bishops, but even Archbishops? Consider this extract of dialogue from the Consecration (in the Church of England) of an Archbishop -

Question - (put to the one being Consecrated) 'Are you persuaded that the Holy Scriptures contain, sufficiently. all doctrine required of necessity for eternal salvation through faith in Jesus Christ?

Answer - I am so persuaded and determined by God's Grace.

Question - Will you then faithfully exercise yourself in the same Holy Scriptures and call upon God by prayer for the true understanding of them; so you may be able to teach and exhort them and to withstand and convince the gainsayers?

Answer - I will do so, by the help of God

Question - Be you ready, with all faithful diligence, to drive away and banish all erroneous and strange doctrine contrary to God's Word; and both privately and openly to call and encourage others to do the same?

Answer - I am ready, the Lord being my helper

BUT actions speak louder than words it seems, and for all the Vows and Promises that are made, the actual EXAMPLE that is given often proves them false.

'FOR THE TIME has come when men will not put up with sound doctrine.

INSTEAD

to suit their own desire

they will gather around them a great number of teachers

to say what their itching ears want to hear.

They will turn their ears away from the Truth and turn aside to myths.'

2. Timothy 4v3-4

It is in these very days that we might well consider the words of Peter in 2.Peter 2 where he says

'False teachers are among the people,

even as there shall be false teachers among you,

who privily shall bring in damnable heresies...

having their eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin;

beguiling unstable souls; an heart they have exercised

with covetous practices; cursed children

which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray

......servants of corruption.'

YET all this BEGAN at the very birth of the Church, and Paul on leaving the early Church at Ephesus says -

'Take heed to yourselves and all the flock,

among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers,

to shepherd the church of God which He purchased

with His own blood.

For I KNOW this,

that after my departure savage wolves will come among you,

not sparing the flock.

Also from among yourselves men will ruse up,

speaking perverse things to draw away the disciples after themselves.'

We should then be VERY alert and diligent to ensure that we put ourselves under the teaching of those who aspire to adhere to the Word of God alone, and to live by it. We should not run after every doctrine, every new 'revelation' or 'sighting' of Christ, but soberly measure all that is said and done by the very WORD of God.

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PRAY FOR KENYA ! She needs your prayers! Prayers for political wisdom and stability. Prayers for Political LEADERS who will lead with integrity and with regard to the Law of God. Prayers for NEW leaders untarnished by the sins of the past and unaligned to the party politics and tribal affiliations that have so far been the cause of so much distress and economic collapse. Prayers for the state of our climate and weather. All the sensational predictions of an 'El Nino' has produced little in regard to a meaningful supply of RAIN. DRYNESS is setting in, and for example here in Eldoret the river is less than a stinking trickle, and the air dry and parched so that already every green thing is turning brown, and the very grass becoming as dust - and this is only December. No sign of the needed Short Rains, and with an increasingly HOT season already making itself felt - a season that could easily continue through to May next year!

RIGHT NOW the prospects do not look good for the year ahead - BUT one thing is SURE, Those who KNOW the Lord Jesus will not walk through it alone, for HE will be with each one - and THEY will do great things with Him by their side - indeed THEY will overcome.

AND NOW AT LAST a few photos of STEVEN EROT YEGO taken TODAY just for you. Hope they will be visible. Mum and son both doing very well, and looking forward to Christmas. Dad Yego is still 'tickled pink' as they say, and is a truly doting father and husband in ever way. AND all the children seem just as happy and pleased by this special and long awaited addition to the family.

Dates ahead into December =
1-3rd Children to town to purchase shoes and school uniform for the New Year. A VERY demanding exercise in every way.
4-5th Christmas shopping
10-18th JOHN will be teaching every morning from 8a.m. to 1p.m. at Discipleship College Eldoret - Subject - Administration of a Children's Home - about 4 lessons per morning.. I really am NOT looking forward to it for a number of reasons, some purely intellectual and a few physical!
18th - the Homes will be putting up Christmas Decorations. We have always done this since we began on the same date each year.
We shall also be having our Annual Christmas Dinner for all our subordinate staff including our Houseparents. We have a good meal and a lot of fellowship.
23rd - A BIG Carol Party will be visiting neighbours and local groups singing carols from about 3 to 8p.m.
24th Christmas Eve
25th Christmas Day
We hope to have accomplished all the hard work before the 15th including the Christmas Shopping (just food for the Christmas time - we cannot go to buying presents, but the children don't seem to miss them at all, and enjoy a little extra special food on the menu AND new school clothes.)
NOVEMBER is at an end. Our friend John Cooper will be ministering at the last Meeting of the month in our Sunday Fellowship. I shall be Breaking Bread at the Communion. And then we are into December. God has been SO good to us.
Our thoughts and prayers are with you all as you also make ready for the Christmas Festival. We trust He will give you all joy and happiness together even as you prepare.
Lovingly in Him

John and Esther