Have you ever had a problem with wild wandering vines, taking over in your yard. You know those kind of aggressive vines that are of no use for anything, except to cause you a lot of hard work cleaning them out. Well, that is what you were like before you became a Christian. You didn't have a good root system. You were not producing any good fruit, just growing and wandering wildly without any clear direction. Once we become a Christian we are grafted into the strongest root system of all. With God as our root system, we will start to produce fruit and have a purpose in our life. But branches are always being pruned off the main vine. Why, because they stop producing fruit, they stop living their lives for the Lord and start living for themselves. But then, when they start living for Him again and doing right, He will graft them right back into the vine. You know how people are always trying to find out their genealogy, where they came from, what kind of stock they are from is one way of saying it. Well, once you become a Christian, you do not have to worry about where you came from, because you are now part of the best stock, the strongest stock, your roots belong to the best root system ever. So you can quit searching, you have the best roots you could possibly have.
The word tells us not to let this be a mystery to you. He wants you to know exactly how to become part of His root system. It doesn't matter what walk of life you came from, or what you have done in your past, God can take any type of branch and make it strong and the same as the other branches on the vine, because He is no respecter of man. We are all the same to Him. So once you become a part of the vine, don't just lay there and take up nutrients, in other words don't just go to church and get fed the word but never study it out, or never do what it says. Don't be a weak branch that will get pruned off. But if you do mess up and get pruned off, know this, God can graft you back in and he will do so when you repent and ask Him to take you back.
Romans 11 vs 16-24....For if the first fruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches. And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you. You will say then, "Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in." Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear. For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either. Therefore, consider the goodness and severity of God; on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off. And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. For if you were cut out of the Olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree? For I do not desire brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion......
This is telling us not to be quick to comment on others who may have fallen away into sin, do not judge. For you are not the judge, (you do not support the root). God can graft them in again.
And for those who want to know how to become part of this root system. It is simple and easy to understand. Just pray this prayer...
Lord Jesus, Please forgive me of my sins. Lord come into my heart and change me. Lord I want to live my life for you. I know you died on the cross for my sins, so that I might have eternal salvation with You and the Father one day. I am asking you now Lord Jesus to be my Lord and Savior. Amen
Now call someone you know who is a Christian and living for the Lord, and tell them what you have prayed, and ask them how to get involved in a good bible teaching, faith teaching church.
Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!
Neta
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