that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
Now, there is two kinds of sorrow for the dead: that sorrow for them because you have no hope, the world sorrow for the dead. They're gone. It's all over, that's the end. But the sorrow of the believer is not as those who have no hope. You see, our sorrow really isn't for the person that is gone. Our sorrow is for ourselves because we're still here, and we're going to miss them. We sorrow for what's been taken from us. I won't be able to call them on the phone anymore. I won't be able to go over and see them. I won't be able to go over to receive the input that they have given into my life that has blessed me and meant so much to me. And I sorrow for what I have lost, but if they are a child of God, I rejoice for them that they are there in the presence of our Lord. So we sorrow not as those who have no hope.