away from God, truth, and even happiness. If you want to be happy, you cannot act on the advice and the counsel of people who push away, ignore, or mock God. Getting spiritual counsel from unspiritual people would be like getting advice on brain surgery from an automobile mechanic. There is a progression in verse 1 that we are wise to pay attention to. First, you walk among the wrong crowd, then you stand around the wrong crowd, and then you join in or sit with the wrong crowd. This is the way it always