Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.

What can cause lifelong relationships to end suddenly or destroy the credibility of an honored person or institution, one word,

hypocrisy. We'll find out what the scripture says about it and how you and I can be freed from it.

Stay with me.

We all have a story about the first time hypocrisy stung us. Maybe it was in the church. Maybe it was in the locker room.

Maybe it was looking in the mirror one morning and realizing we'd become exactly what we hated.

Well, today I'm living on The Edge, Chip Ingram begins a lesson that takes that universal

experience seriously. Now, Chip holds up an illustration at the top of this message involving a vintage cologne bottle shaped like a Volkswagen.

It's a great story.

But before we get started, remember you can always revisit these lessons online at living on theedge.org.

With that, here's Chip Ingram.

Do you remember the first time that you tasted hypocrisy?

I mean the kind of hypocrisy that, I mean, it was ugly, it was distasteful.

I don't mean it was mild.

I mean, it was blatant.

And someone really pretended or projected genuine concern and love,

and then you realize behind the scenes, maybe just ripping you off. And that's why I brought

my black Volkswagen. It is precious to me. It may look just like a black Volkswagen,

but this end comes off. And you can undo that. It still

has, and on the bottom, it says Avon. Volkswagen, wild country, after shave. Now, believe it or not, in about

1973, this was really cool.

And I had a little collection of these, my mom, dad, or sister.

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