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You know, expressions common among people today who have no hope in God and his promise. The faithful prophet Job said that even a tree has hope of sprouting again, but man, when he dies, is gone permanently. But Job then indicates that he was speaking of man on his own without help from God, for Job expresses the desire and hope that God will remember him. (Job 14:7-15) The apostle Paul strikes the same note when he informs true Christians that they, having the hope of resurrection, should not “sorrow just as the rest also do who have no hope.” (1 Thess. 4:13) Why?