GRAFTED IN
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You, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root.
Romans 11.17
In Romans 11, the apostle Paul shows us that the olive tree represents the covenants and promises to Israel, growing from its Holy Root, the Messiah or the Word of God. The natural branches are the people of Israel. Those who turned away from that relationship were broken off. Christians are simply the gentile nations "grafted in" among the natural branches to "share in the nourishing sap from the olive root," which God established (Romans 11:17). It is evident from Scripture and from nature that a tree's roots and trunk support the branches, not vice versa. (Romans 11:18) In this position, there is no room for pride or the belief that Christians have replaced Israel, or that God has rejected his own covenants and promises in the Hebrew Scriptures. There is no room for boasting and arrogance because both the natural branches and the grafted in wild branches remain only by faith.
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