Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.

When you think about organized religion, what comes to your mind?

As a young adult, the word that came to my mind was hypocrisy. Because of that, I threw the church and all its religious trappings out of my life. But I later discovered that the church was never supposed to be that way. Today, I want to share with you my journey, and together we're going to learn how to live lives that are free of hypocrisy.

Most of us have spent years perfecting the art of impression management, acting one way at church, another way at work, another way at home.

We hate it in ourselves. And if you're honest, you'd probably say you've never fully escaped it. Well, today

on Living on the Edge, Chip Ingram confronts that head on, picking up in Ephesians Chapter 5 with

the haunting story of Ananias and Sapphire. He's going to show us what it actually looks like

to walk in the light and what's at stake when we don't. Well, now here's Chipp Ingram with his message,

why we all hate hypocrisy.

Ephesians 5 1 to 14.

In these 14 verses, God is going to reveal

why you hate hypocrisy and why he has zero tolerance for it as well.

It begins in verse 1, and it says,

therefore be imitators of God as beloved children and walk in love.

How?

Just as Christ also loved you and gave himself up for us,

an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.

There's two commands for every Christian to follow. Command number one,

mimic God. The word where it says imitate, the Greek words here we get our word mimic. Mimic

God. How? The way children in a healthy family mimic their parents. That's the positive side.

Now, notice the negative side,

verses 3 through 6. He's going to give two warnings for every believer to heed. But in contrast to

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