Did you ever hear this playground chant? “I know something you don’t know.” Wasn’t that annoying? Unless you also knew the thing that somebody else didn’t know. If you were “in,” you probably enjoyed, with some smug satisfaction, knowing the delicious morsel of information that some people didn’t know. It is human nature to enjoy having information that others do not have. To be an “insider” makes us feel powerful and important. The Gnostic heretics used that propensity of human beings to draw people in to their mixed up religion. They claimed they had the secrets to a “real” life with God. They reduced the person and work of Christ to simply “another of the emanations” from God. They did not honor the supremacy and preeminence of Christ. Since Christianity is Christ, to minimize Him is to eviscerate the core content of the faith. To deal with the heresy that was taking hold in Colosse, Paul reminded the church that they already had all the secrets they needed to have in Christ. In Christ, all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are “hidden.” It reminds me of that saying, “If you have Christ and nothing else, you have everything you need. If you have everything else, but you don’t have Christ, you have nothing.”