EXCHANGED LIFE BELIEVERS ARE ENGRAFTED into Christ with LIFE from Christ flowing through us! In the botanical or husbandry sense, "engrafting" is the act of grafting something onto or into something else.
In order for us to be grafted into God, and for God to have us grafted into Him, both parties need to have passed through a process. Just as in the physical world, both the tree and the branch (to be grafted into the tree) need to be cut. Christ, as God who dwells in unapproachable Light, needed to pass through the process of incarnation, human living, crucifixion, and resurrection, so that He could become the life-giving Spirit - the "the Graft-able God." By becoming such a Spirit, God (in Christ) was ready for grafting!
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