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  1. Grafted

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    Grafted – a word by Pastor Billy Johnson from The Rock Church in Draper, UT. "The joy of being grafted will reveal itself in a weight of glory that we will never see this side of eternity. To suffer with Him and for Him"

    In his last published book, “The Excellency of a Broken Heart,” the great puritan author John Bunyan wrote:

    “Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think . . . . It is wounding work, of course, this breaking of the hearts, but without wounding there is no saving. . . . Where there is grafting there is a cutting. The scion must be let in with a wound; to stick it on to the outside or to tie it on with a string would be of no use. The heart must be set to heart and back to back, or there will be no sap from root to branch, and this, I say, must be done by a wound.”

    Many blessings come with God’s gift of salvation. However, there are also many troubles and pains. There is the breaking down of our earthly bodies, the desires and temptations of our sinful flesh, and satan (the prowling lion) wishing to destroy us and ruin the joy and goodness in our lives. Additionally, hate and venom are directed toward us from a world the unregenerate part of us so longs to please. 

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