our counselors carefully. And selection inevitably carries with it the idea of rejection. David warns against the counsel of the ungodly, and Bible history gives examples of men who made a failure of their lives because they took wrong advice. Rehoboam, for instance, listened to men who had not listened to God, and the whole future of Israel was affected adversely as a consequence. The counsel of Ahitophel was an evil thing that added greatly to the iniquities of Absalom. No man has any right to