Sept 17, 2024 … Grafted In To Be Fruitful

Sept 17, 2024 … Grafted In To Be Fruitful

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take time  to hear the group, CJ and Friends, with music and lyrics, singing I Wanna Bear Fruit,  young people singing of how God has called them to bear fruit for Jesus.  

Bearing Good Fruit - Living from God's word 

 

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Highlight Passage: … Romans 11:17 [NLT] … 

17 But some of these branches from Abraham’s tree—some of the people of Israel—have been broken off. 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.  

… The Apostle Paul explains why God allowed Gentiles to be grafted into God’s family by the rejection of Jews who chose by their lack of faith in Jesus as the Messiah and the faith of Gentiles to believe.      

    

Highlight Passage (in context): …  Romans 11:11-21 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… The Apostle Paul teaches, most Jewish Christians (and to us) why God allowed Gentile believers to be grafted into the family of God.                                                                                  

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Reference Passage: … Jeremiah 11:16-17 … [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

…  God, thru the Prophet Jeremiah, prophesies of a time when God, in anger because of the sins of God’s people will throw them into the fire to make way for the fruitful branches He will graft in as faithful/fruitful branches.

Reference Passage: …  John 3:16-17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… Jesus shows Nicodemus God’s plan to save all who would believe in Jesus as Messiah and Lord.                      

Reference Passage: … John 15:1-4 [NLT] …  USE THIS Link …   

… Jesus teaches His disciples (and us) that He is the vine where only those who are His branches will produce fruit.  

Reference Passage: …Galatians 5:22-23 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

…  Paul teaches fellow Christians the kind of fruit which will come from all those who faithfully believe in Christ as the Messiah.  

Reference Passage: … Ephesians 2:11-13  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

…  Paul teaches Gentiles that they were once separated from God’s family but now have been grafted into God’s family by their faith, believing in Jesus as the Messiah.              

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author, Nancy Galvanes  AT THIS LINK  -   told of visiting her dad’s homeland in Ecuador and him explaining how trees with strange fruit growing had been created by grafting the branches from other fruit trees into the host trees, producing the strange, but new and different fruit.      

     

And seeing that grafting process reminded the ODB author of how, as described in the Scriptures shared above, God has grafted in new - Gentile - branches into the fruit bearing - Jewish trees which are the main branches of God’s fruit trees.  And it should cause all reading here with me to ask if we are producing God’s fruit because we’re grafted into God’s tree of life.  

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for grafting me into You, Lord, and allowing me to produce Your fruit from my faith and witness of You as Messiah and Lord.      

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I’m praying that those who read with me here will join together in faith to produce Your good fruit, Lord, forever.  …  Amen

 

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