{"id":9295,"date":"2025-10-10T06:20:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T11:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblestudyradio.org\/?p=9295"},"modified":"2025-10-10T06:20:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T11:20:27","slug":"1-peter-program-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/?p=9295","title":{"rendered":"1 Peter (Program #25)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudyradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/bible_light.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>1 Peter (Program #25) &#8211; The Elders&#8217; Shepherding and Its Reward (2)<\/p>\n<p>We all know that Peter was first a disciple of the Lord Jesus.\u00a0 A disciple is a follower, a learner.\u00a0 Then Peter received the commission from the Lord and became chief among the apostles.\u00a0 An apostle in the New Testament is a sent one.\u00a0 It&#8217;s in this capacity that Peter is most often referred to.\u00a0 But in addition to being a disciple and an apostle, Peter was also an elder of the church in Jerusalem.\u00a0 It is in this status as an elder that Peter writes to the other elders in his first epistle.<\/p>\n<p>Elders are the overseers of the church and as Paul also tells us, these are the leading ones who has been charged by the Lord with a solemn and sober responsibility to care for His most precious possessions, that is His people, the flock of God.\u00a0 It&#8217;s in this charge that Peter brings the attention of all the elders past, present and future that their responsibility must extend even to the risk of their own lives.<\/p>\n<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"1 Peter (Program #25)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2025-10-10T06:20:27-05:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"1 Peter (Program #25) - The Elders' Shepherding and Its Reward (2)\r\n\r\nWe all know that Peter was first a disciple of the Lord Jesus.\u00a0 A disciple is a follower, a learner.\u00a0 Then Peter received the commission from the Lord and became chief among the ap...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Peter\/Pet_25.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"15.4\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6686\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Peter\/Pet_25.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('6686','http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Peter\/Pet_25.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Peter\/Pet_25.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/?powerpress_pinw=9295-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsmradio.com\/audio\/mp3-files\/Peter\/Pet_25.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Pet_25.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Religion--Spirituality-Podcas\/Bible-Study-Radio-p959109\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Peter (Program #25) &#8211; The Elders&#8217; Shepherding and Its Reward (2) We all know that Peter was first a disciple of the Lord Jesus.\u00a0 A disciple is a follower, a learner.\u00a0 Then Peter received the commission from the Lord and became chief among the apostles.\u00a0 An apostle in the New Testament is a sent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6356,4],"tags":[7850,2229,27,25,26,6267,7533,2627,96,7540,7535,29,3658,7536,7807,1050,7539,7538,750,7537,7532,5945,2628,5235],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9296,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9295\/revisions\/9296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}