1. Jude 1:3 (ESV)
  2. Application

The Common Salvation

Jude 1:3 (ESV)

3 Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.

It is a common salvation which all believers possess, since it springs from the same divine grace. There are not some saved by grace and others by works, many by pure grace and more partly by works—but salvation is altogether of grace in every case and that grace is the same in all who possess it. All believers are chosen by the same electing love, for the same reason, namely, to the glory of the Father’s grace; and being so chosen, they are all ordained unto the same life, secured by the same covenant and given into the hands of the same surety. Eternal love encompasses, enriches, comforts, and preserves each individual believer and guarantees to each the same inheritance in Christ Jesus.1

Charles H. Spurgeon