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Galatians 3:26-29

For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Generally, folks quote these verses, and I've done it myself, as standalone verses. But you really need to read the entire chapter, in fact I'd really recommend reading chapter 2 and chapter 3. Then when you get to this verse, you can see it's a summation of all of the verses that preceded it. And the explanation is just fantastic. How Jesus was the promise given to Abraham. That Abraham's seed would carry the inheritance of the promise. And the promise being, that Abraham's seed would bless all the nations. That the plan to include the rest of the world (Gentiles) in salvation was already at work, even in the promise given to Abraham. Through Jesus we are grafted into the vine of the promise. You can read more about that in Romans chapter 11 starting with verse 11.

The more we understand the inner workings of our salvation, the more beautiful it becomes. It is just so amazing how things from long long ago were already in the works so that you and I could be saved, redeemed, and grafted in to the family of God, sharing in the full inheritance of Jesus Christ.
 Jesus explains the vine in John chapter 15. How the branches can do nothing without the vine. And that we can do nothing without Jesus. And it is so true. Our redemption comes from Him and our ability to prosper and produce fruit comes only through Him. Just like physical branches get their sustenance from the vine, we get our sustenance from the Lord. I guess in today's time you could equate it with an appliance being plugged in. The appliance is fully capable of doing whatever it was created to do, when it's plugged in to the source. The electricity. But without the source, it can do nothing. A washing machine, dishwasher, oven, and microwave, just really big paper weights without electricity. Useless. Before we come to Jesus we are trying to plug ourselves into different things. Things that other folks say will sustain us. But they never do. It just doesn't work. We weren't designed to be plugged in anywhere else, but into the vine alone.

Only Jesus will sustain us. Our salvation was bought with a very precious price. The blood of the only begotten Son of God, Jesus. Jesus speaks of this in John chapter 3 and how we must be born again from the physical realm, into the spiritual realm. (See Romans 10:9-10) From understanding natural things to understanding supernatural things. And that doesn't happen if you don't know Jesus. Even Nicodemus, one who studied the law from the time he was a child, and was already an old man in John chapter 3, he couldn't even grasp it. He asked Jesus, what am I supposed to do crawl up in my mothers womb again? Almost mockingly because we know an old guy like that, his mom is no longer around. And even he says, we know You're of God because no one who is not could do what You're doing. He speaking of the miracles that Jesus is doing. Anyway I highly recommend reading that as well. Goodness gravy if I don't stop now I never will. This will be a 40 page message.

I hope you're having a great day so far. Have a great rest of your day, a splendid weekend, and God bless you and yours. James