The Cultivated Olive Tree

Paul tells his Gentile readers to check their arrogance at the door because a proper understanding of the story they're a part of will lead them to speechless humility. Paul points out that if Israel was a cultivated olive tree, then the Gentiles were a wild, uncultivated olive tree. If some of the branches have been broken off and you though a wild olive shoot have been grafted in among the others, do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. Do not be arrogant but tremble for if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.