Good Morning Christian and Welcome To The Morning Light! THE GRAFT Rom. 11:17 And you Gentiles, who were branches from a wild olive tree, have been grafted in. So now you also receive the blessing God has promised Abraham and his children, sharing in the rich nourishment from the root of God’s special olive tree. In Jesus famous teaching in John 15, about abiding in Him, He describes Himself as The Vine and we are The Branches. In His analogy Jesus presents our salvation and subsequent relationship with Him as the result of the Father grafting us into Jesus The Vine. In the business of growing grapes there is a vine, which is a trunk and root system w/ the top cut off. Then other grape branches are grafted into the trunk, and these become the branches of the vine. A vine, before the branches are grafted into it, looks like it cant survive. The branchless trunk sticking out of the ground looks dramatically barren and dead. But its not. Its roots are very much alive. In His death, Jesus was cut off from among men. Yet because of Who He is, His roots remain, reaching into eternity. Death could not kill Him. And branches have been grafted into Him ever since— including you. Yes, God cut you off from your own roots that were planted in the worlds sin-cursed soil. You died to your old existence, along with sins claims over your life. Yet today you live in Christ. For God immediately took you and grafted you into Jesus His Son, making you alive in Him—one of the branches of the Vine. Draw your life from Him! 1John 3:1-2 See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him. Dear friends, we are already God’s children, but he has not yet shown us what we will be like when Christ appears. But we do know that we will be like him, for we will see him as he really is. Keep following The Morning Light and share it with a friend! -- With Love & Blessing In Christ, Nick Champlin
Posted on: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 03:00:00 +0000
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