The Apostle Paul becomes the prototype for salvation under the new economy of God’s message of grace to the Gentile world in that his message is consistent with his teachings of grace applied completely apart from any works of the Mosaic Law as evidence of faith. Review his salvation story in the following passages from Acts: 9:1-19, 1:1-16, 26:1-23. Paul’s conversion is so carefully recorded as it lays the foundation for a very important truth found in God’s Word, namely that no one is outside the possibility of coming to faith in Christ. 1 Timothy 1:15-16 clearly explains the sense in which Paul is both the prototype and chief example of a sinner saved by grace in this Dispensation of the Church the Body of Christ. Each of us has a salvation story that is just as miraculous as Paul’s, for while our experience may not seem as dramatic, the truth is that each of us has been fully changed, converted, and passed from death to life when the blood of Christ’s atonement was applied to our souls.
The Old Testament individuals could never have fully understood the Messiah coming to die and be the atonement for their sins, and yet the New Testament makes it clear that it was the death and resurrection of Christ that ultimately provides redemption for all ages, always in the end applied by faith in God’s Word as evidenced by the practice of sacrifices according to His commands.
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