Grafted In
For thousands of years, God's family could be traced from one lineage--the people of Israel, descended from Abraham. With the coming of Christ and His death and resurrection, God launched a new era in the life of His people, fulfilling prophesies that the nations would be counted as His people and worship Him (see Isaiah 49:6 and Psalm 86:9). Paul explains how God has put the Gentiles together with the Jews in God's family through the analogy of an olive tree with grafted branches. God is portrayed as a gardener who skillfully stitches a wild olive shoot into the body of an established olive tree. In the same way, adoptive families graft one life into the life of their family,...
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