It is a common salvation because faith and spiritual life are worked in us by the same Spirit. Faith does not come to one by the operation of free will and to another by free grace, but to everyone by the same Spirit. You, then, my brothers and sisters, are plucked like a brand from the burning by the power of the Spirit of God, and so also is your friend who rejoices with you. All are quickened by the same Spirit and kept alive by the same Quickener. The love of the Spirit should be joyfully acknowledged by us all without exception, for the Spirit has worked all our works in us. It is a common salvation as to its results, for all believers are equally born again and they are all renewed by him who says,
Charles H. SpurgeonBehold I make all things new.Brought into the one family of God, they are all made children of God and joint heirs with Christ Jesus. They are all justified, accepted, preserved, guided, upheld, and comforted. Their feet are set upon the same rock. They are led in the same King’s highway. And a new song is prepared for every one of their mouths.1
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.