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Podcast Introduction Our reading today is Psalms 24-26, and I’m calling the episode “Exit Stage Left." Comments on Psalm 26 Psalm 1:1 says, "Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers..." Here in chapter 26, verses 4 and 5 David says, "I do not sit with men of falsehood, nor do I consort with hypocrites. I hate the assembly of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked." When I was a boy, my parents taught me the importance of choosing my friends wisely.  Bible commentator James Montgomery Boice wrote, “Many Christians can trace a lost youth or fruitless middle years to the bad influence of evil persons, whom they looked up to and even envied at one time.”  I'm thankful that I learned that lesson early in my life. Much of my teen years were in the 60s. I am truly one of the hippie generation, and marijuana and LSD were very much glorified in those years. Many of my high school classmates got involved