The Cincinnati Church

THE END OF FAITH WITHOUT SIGHT (1 Peter 1:8-12)

v.8.
A. Believers do not now see Christ in this world. 2CO 5:7.
1. Note the verb tenses: "having not seen..." and "now ye see him not."
a. These believers had never personally seen Christ.
b. They would not have been of those whom Peter elsewhere described as
"these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us" (ACT 1:21).
c. Paul said, "And last of all he was seen of me also..." (1CO 15:8).
c/w ACT 22:14; 26:16.