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Here's a fun exercise, sort of. Think of somebody you really just don't like it all

maybe somebody at work maybe somebody you struggle with your own family might be somebody who's

on the news in the news whatever there's something good about that person and i say that it's not

naive like like happy happy talk

there really is and you know what it is the image of God like you're the worst person in the world

I'm not exaggerating it has the image of God on him or her.

The worst.

So there is something there that we're supposed to love.

Like that's why we love people.

Yeah, so Uncle Sy from Duck Dynasty. He was on Twitter and he said this.

And it sounds simplistic, but I think it's genius it's genius okay he said it doesn't matter how

many followers you have hitler had millions jesus had 12 so i love that that was on twitter

again it sounds simple like well yeah but how many followers does indicate like okay that important? Right. You're doing a great job because you've got 10,000 followers on Twitter, 100,000, or a million, or this person is a superstar preacher because he's got a million people following him, but you don't. Right. Like, that's not how God computes things. That's a good point. Yeah, I actually thought that's, there's some, just having his picture next to it for some reason to bring him up Hitler and Jesus. I'm like, that's so true. All of this makes sense. It does make sense. And again, there was a woman who followed that up on my Twitter timeline and said, well, that makes me feel better. And I looked at she had 19 followers. Okay. Like, well, I'll be your 20th. Nice. But compared to somebody who's got two million,

how significant am I? It doesn't matter. That's not how God looks at it at all. Well, but my influence,

you don't measure influence by the number of followers you have. Look at the way Jesus wound up on a

cross alone or just with his mom and a friend

and that's it abandoned that is not is not an indicator of success if you've got a bunch of followers

i was just reading uh the transcript martin luther king junior gave this he did this sermon called

loving your enemies and it's so good.

But what was funny to me, because it's funny, not ha-ha, but I don't know it is, kind of ha-ha.

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