Don’t Be Deluded! Colossians 1-2

Colossians 2:1-4 (ESV Strong's)

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments.

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The world is out to delude us.  Note the last line of this section of Colossians.  There are people in this world who which to come along side and delude us with logical arguments.    Jesus has been declared to us and given us a freedom in His grace.  But, there are those who want to limit that freedom we have in Christ with legal arguments.   The arguments they make, however, are logical.    They make sense to our natural mind.  We can think of Eve in the Garden of Eden as an example.  Satan made a logical argument to her.    He did not come way off the wall with some made up story.  He actually used God’s own words to entice her to disobey those very words.    This is because Satan is the father of lies (John 16:11).   He continually wishes to delude our thinking.   

2 Corinthians 11:4 (ESV Strong's)

For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.

2 Corinthians 11:14-15 (ESV Strong's)

And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.

The only way we can avoid being deluded by these supernatural forces of evil is to know the mystery of Christ.   We need to have a deeper understanding of Christ.  This is what Paul’s prayer is for the Colossians.   In Christ are hidden all the knowledge of God.  As we learn more about the mystery of Christ we are better prepared to not be deluded by the many disguises of Satan.  To combat delusion we have to learn more about Christ.