Read Proverbs 23:17 & 18  Our first verse talks about the word envy.  What does envy mean?  Envy means to wish that you could be like someone else or that you could have the things like someone else.  You wish that you could have talent like someone or be able to play baseball like them.  There is nothing wrong about being like someone else, but envy means that you wish you could have what they have.  A person envy's someone else,s new bicycle, and then they steal it.  Envy begins as a jealous thought, but soon leads to bigger sins.  When we look at sinners and are envious of them, we soon want to become like them.  We want to sin.  Notice that Solomon says that envy is in the heart.  Envy is way down inside of us.  And when we want to be like sinners, we are headed down a dangerous pathway.  The second half of the first verse says that instead of envying a sinner, we should consider what ultimately happen to a sinner.  What ultimately happens to a sinner - what happens when they die?  That is told to us in the second verse, verse 18. When sinners die, they are cut off from heaven and home with God.  Sinners live a life that looks exciting, but the sinner is headed down the path to destruction.  And when we consider the sinner's end, well we surely don't want that, do we?  We want a home in heaven when we die. So, when we are envious of a sinner's great life, remember where they will end up.  Always go with God.  You will never be sorry that you did.  I'm not!