Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and bestselling author Dr. Paul David Tripp

connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

In today's episode, as we continue through Paul's Bible study in First Peter, we're going to go

through three more sections of this encouraging letter.

In this first segment, Peter provides one of the most succinct summaries

of the gospel story in all of Scripture.

Here's Paul on 1 Peter 5.

Well, we're in our final stages of our year-long study of 1. Peter, we're in 1. Peter 5.

And 1st Peter 5 is directed to elders. Elders are God's appointed leaders of his church.

And Peter humbly says, I want to speak to you as a fellow elder.

But although this material is primarily written to elders,

there's so much gospel helpfulness in this passage. And I actually

love the way he begins. There's a hymn that we used to sing growing up. It was I love to tell the story and it was a hymn about the amazing gospel story well

Peter does one of the best summaries of the gospel story in verse one of first Peter 5 that you could ever read.

So I exhort the elders among you as a fellow elder

and a witness of the suffering of Christ

as well as a partaker in the glory that is to be revealed.

If you are looking for a two-word summary of the entire biblical narrative, here it is,

suffering and glory.

Those themes are everywhere throughout the biblical story.

We know from the prophecies of Isaiah that Christ's life was going to be a life

of suffering, despised and rejected, a man of sorrows acquainted with grief. But Christ's life

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