There comes a time when pretending costs more than its worth.

When the energy required to maintain the facade exceeds our ability to keep up appearances,

when we realize that living two lives, one public and one private, is slowly destroying us from the inside out.

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall doesn't just diagnose the problem of hypocrisy.

He issues an urgent call to action.

By the end of today's program, you'll be challenged to cultivate authenticity and root out hypocrisy.

Chuck titled today's message, Rehoboam, the reckless phony.

First Kings 11 is not the story of Rehoboam.

It's the story of his father's fall.

His father's name is familiar to all of us.

His name was Solomon.

Israel, under Solomon, became heavily taxed.

Because of his spiritual compromise, there were those who left him, who deserted.

One man's name was Jeroboam.

Jeroboam disagreed with the policy that Solomon had developed, so he went to Egypt to live there. Now turn the page and look at the

last verse of this chapter. Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father,

David. And his son, Rehoboam, reigned in his place.

Jeroboam, who has departed, comes back down to the city of Sheckham, and he visits with the king elect.

Verse four, your father made our yoke hard.

Therefore lightened the hard surface of your father and his heavy yoke,

which he put on us and we will serve you.

Then he said to them, depart for three days, then return to me.

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