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Believers’ Battle Station - Colossians 2:6-7As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.How do we fight back against not just one false belief system, or one empty philosophy but against thousands? Where do we take our stand, where is our battle station?Anytime you hear someone trying to tell you that there is a different way, a better way, a deeper way of salvation or a spiritual life, you are encountering a new form of Gnosticism. And in truth the false lies of Gnosticism go all the way back to the Garden of Eden when Satan told Eve, Genesis 3:4-5 Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.Then Satan spoke directly. Today he lets the the world says, "Here is a better way than God’s way. Here is a better word than the word of God. You won’t die, you will see things you’ve never seen. You will be like a god. You will know, you will decide what is good and what is evil because you are a god."Don’t like the truth, then make your own truth. Don’t like God’s design for marriage then ignore it. Don’t think God knew what he was doing when He put your DNA together and made you a man or a woman, then ignore your masculinity or your femininity and be whatever gender you choose or don’t be a gender at all. Talk about being beguiled, deceived, robbed and wronged. Nothing is more devastating than after years of living a lie, realizing how much that lie has destroyed any hope of joy, or fulfillment you ever had. How terrible to trade the treasures of Jesus Christ for a false philosophy from the Father of Lies.We can fight back and take our battle station by “Being In Christ.” Look again at what Paul said, this time break it into Be statements. These are the be alls, to be able to beat the beguilement of this broken, beaten and bad world… ( I love alliteration, it is the poetry of pastors)Be steadfast; in ChristBe mindful; of your beginning in Christ.Be humble: As you received him in repentance and faithBe consistent: So continue to walk in Him in repentance and faithBe rooted: Steadfast, anchored and holding fast to HimBe built up: Growing, learning, maturingBe established: firmly founded in “the faith” the doctrine, discipline of what it means to be a true Christian.Be abounding: Overflowing in your relationship in Christ and in the Christian faith, he teaches us.And finally, always Be Thankful: with thanksgiving for all He is and all He has given us.ConclusionRecently a man I know turned his back on the Lord. He claims to be an atheist now and his betrayal has hurt a lot of people, but the one he hurt the most is himself. I spoke with him and asked him to think about all he had walked away from. I told him, “Everything that was good in your life, came from the Lord. Your friends, people who considered a brother and loved you like closer than any brother, your wife, you met in church, your clothes, your food, your purpose in life all came because you were serving the Lord. And now you’ve lost it all.”I don’t know whether he is and always was lost and just a deceiver or if he has been beguiled by the philosophy of atheism, to something he thinks is better than Christ. Yet, can you imagine trading the riches, the treasure of all that is the Lord Jesus for the emptiness of atheism? Turning from the promise and fullness of eternal life to the emptiness of a dark grave?Any of us can make the same trade in less dramatic ways, but the result is the same you are trading treasure for trash, wisdom for wickedness, knowledge for nothingness, the Lord of Heaven for the lies of this Hell.Take your stand with Jesus. He is our all-sufficient Savior and in Him you will find all the riches of eternity.