“Why does Paul argue that nothing can remove the elect from Christ, and then turn around and deliver a sober warning about the dangers of being removed from the olive tree? The answer is inescapable. There is a difference between being elect, and being a covenant member. The elect cannot be removed from God’s sovereign decree; professing Christians can be removed from among God’s people, and they frequently are. When they are removed, their unregenerate status is revealed. They are not regenerate, and never were. But they were really in the covenant, a fact that now applies to them to their sorrow” (To a Thousand Generations, p. 90).
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