The Road to Damascus

As we later learn from Romans 7, Saul was being tormented by the Law (the Commandments) and was at this point no doubt under the heavy weight and condemnation of it – for he said in Rom 7:9-13, “but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good…But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.” It was at this time in his life that we learn that he was under such great condemnation and conviction by his conscience of the judgment of God, and the Law of God, and his crimes against God’s Christ and Son Jesus. It was at this point of desperation and the grave reality of what he had done, that we find that he had nowhere to turn but to the Savior of the world who had paid the price for his crimes on the cross of Calvary and then rose again defeating sin and death!!