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Living Hope: Part 10 Shepherding His Sheep

March 30, 2025   /   Watermark

Living Hope

Part 10 – Shepherding His Sheep

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1 Peter 5:1-4

To the elders among you, I appeal as a fellow elder and a witness of Christ’s sufferings who also will share in the glory to be revealed: Be shepherds of God’s flock that is under your care, watching over them—not because you must, but because you are willing, as God wants you to be; not pursuing dishonest gain, but eager to serve; not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock. And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that will never fade away.

1 Peter 5:1-4

  1. A pastor is a .

To the elders among you, I appeal as a fellow elder and a witness of Christ’s sufferings who also will share in the glory to be revealed: 1 Peter 5:1

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

2) A pastor is a .

Be shepherds of God’s flock that is under your care, watching over them— 1 Peter 5:2a

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:1-2

  • the flock.
  • the flock.

11 For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children, 1 Thessalonians 2:11.

  • the flock.

Be shepherds of God’s flock that is under your care, watching over them… 1 Peter 4:2

28 Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood. Acts 20:28

17 Have confidence in your leaders and submit to their authority, because they keep watch over you as those who must give an account. Do this so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no benefit to you. Hebrews 13:17

  • the flock willingly and eagerly.

Be shepherds of God’s flock that is under your care, watching over them—not because you must, but because you are willing, as God wants you to be; not pursuing dishonest gain, but eager to serve; 1 Peter 4:2

  • to the flock.

not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock. 1 Peter 4:3

3) A pastor is a faithful .

And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that will never fade away. 1 Peter 5:4

10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. 1 Corinthians 15:10

Today’s Song List:

There’s Nothing That Our God Can’t Do

Back To Life

Trust In God

Jesus We Love You

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