The Heavenly Inheritance.
I. The greatness of God's mercy is to be seen in the great number of the saved.
II. The greatness of God's mercy is to be seen in the great change which takes place in the great multitude.
III. The greatness of God's mercy is to be seen in the greatness of the inheritance which He confers on the great multitude which have undergone the great change.
IV. The greatness of God's mercy is to be seen in the greatness of the expense to which He went to be able to confer this great inheritance on the great multitude that have undergone the change.
V. The greatness of God's mercy is to be seen, lastly, in the greatness of the power that is pledged to bring the great multitude to the possession of the inheritance secured for them at such a cost.
J. C. Jones, Studies in First Peter,p. 15.
References: 1 Peter 1:3-5. Spurgeon, Sermons,vol. xvi., No. 048; W. Boyd-Carpenter, Church of England Pulpit,vol. v., p. 263; Ibid.,vol. xxi., p. 267; F. D. Huntingdon, Christian World Pulpit,vol. i., p. 232. 1 Peter 1:4. W. Marshall, Ibid.,vol. x., p. 315; Homilist,2nd series, vol. iv., p. 375. 1 Peter 1:6. Spurgeon, Sermons,vol. iv., No. 222.