For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so those who have fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
      I. This looks as if we had no hope, 1 Thessalonians 4:13; 1 Thessalonians 4:13. It is to act too much like the Gentiles, who had no hope of a better life after this; whereas we Christians, who have a most sure hope, the hope of eternal life after this, which God who cannot lie hath promised us, should moderate all our joys and our sorrows on account of any worldly thing. This hope is more than enough to balance all our griefs upon account of any of the crosses of the present time.