Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.

Do you want a life filled with strong relationships, personal influence, and deep meaning?

Who does it?

And according to Jesus, you can have that kind of

life. But here's the catch. You've got to live without hypocrisy. So how do you do that? How do you

live a life of winsome authenticity? Well, that's the subject we're going to talk about today.

Throughout this series called The New You, Chip Ingram has been making the

case that how you live flows directly from who you believe you are. And today on Living on the

Edge, Chip poses a challenging question. If you know the truth, if you believe in Christ,

why is it still so hard to close the gap between what you say

and how you actually live? Chip takes us to Ephesians 5 and gives us Jesus' own prescription,

not three steps to try harder, but one decisive answer. Here's Chip with today's message,

how to overcome hypocrisy in your heart.

We all think we've got to be something else, portray something different than who we really are,

so that people will love us and accept us and make us significant. We all hate hypocrisy.

We hate it when we see it in other people. We despise it when we see it in the church,

and we actually hate it when we see it in us. Now, it would be nice if hypocrisy was like a virus or like bacteria, and you can go to the doctor and say, I got a bad case of hypocrisy, and he could write a prescription and say, here you go, take care of it, three pills, like penicillin, you're done. But hypocrisy is a lot more complex

than that. It has to do with your heart and your mind and your attitudes and your relationship

with God and relationship with people. But there is a doctor who can solve the hypocrisy issue.

If you'll go ahead and pull out your teaching notes, I'd like to give you Jesus' personal prescription

for dealing with hypocrisy in your life and in mind. And as you look at that, he's going to give us

three clear things. You know, a doctor says, you know, take a couple aspirin, go to bed, call me in the

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