Salvation: its Subjective Elements.
I. Faith. (1) Faith is the first Christian grace; (2) faith is a personal trust in a personal Saviour; (3) faith is trust in an invisible Saviour.
II. Love. (1) Love is one essential element of the Christian religion; (2) Christ claims and gets our supreme love; (3) these strangers of the dispersion evinced their love to the Saviour by suffering themselves to be despoiled of all their possessions rather than deny Him.
III. Joy. This joy defies philosophy to explain it, or language to express it. It is already glorified or full of glory.
J. C. Jones, Studies in First Peter,p. 50.
References: 1 Peter 1:8; 1 Peter 1:9. F. Ferguson, Christian World Pulpit,vol. xxxiii., p. 193; A. Rowland, Ibid.,vol. xxxiv., p. 88; Homiletic Quarterly,vol. i., p. 120; Spurgeon, Sermons,vol. xii., No. 698.