They come from a relationship with the living Lord, Jesus Christ. They are the result and evidence of being chosen by God the Father. And they are the work of the Holy Spirit through the preaching of a particular message called the gospel. What we want to focus on this morning is the relationship between endurance and hope. I take this to mean that hope produces endurance, or that endurance is the fruit of hope.
Faith produces work.
And love produces labor. Similarly then, endurance comes from hope and hope produces endurance. The limelight is terribly fickle. It moves from ministry to ministry in the local church. For a while it is on the music ministry.