Paul, a disciple and an Apostle of Jesus Christ, saw the Light of His glory shining brighter than the noonday sun on the Damascus Road. After having been blinded by the Light, the Light of the Holy Spirit led him to renounce all things to follow after Him. It was his recognition and appreciation of the grace of God that allowed him to understand that God came into the world to save sinners. His personal life served as a product of God’s mercy and grace. Apart from the grace of God, he would have continued doing the things done before his divine encounter. He placed no confidence in his flesh but relied wholly on the Spirit to lead him on his entire journey of life. His former life had to be completely renounced so that he could attain excellent and intimate knowledge. However, what he knew through natural sources conflicted with what God was yet to reveal to him. 1 Timothy Chapter I and verse 15 expressed his life after he had gone through many humbling experiences. He said, “this is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance that Christ came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.” The Light of the glory of the Lord exposed the defects that still existed in his life. He was aware of the fact that the closer one walks with the Lord, the more one is enabled by the Holy Spirit to see areas in need of being perfected. He spoke of not having yet arrived or having apprehended, but that his life was a journey through time to eternity. The journey of his life was as just as important as arriving at the destination. 

 Primarily, Paul proclaimed that “Christ came into the world to save sinners,” which was the primary purpose for His coming. The Father’s love is expressed through what He provides, and He sent His Only Begotten Son into a sinful and rebellious environment to rescue man from self-destruction by choice. Adam chose to disobey God, thus introducing sin into the world. Even though Adam’s choice became the nature of all who came after him, the lustful passions and desires of the flesh were not originally a part of who you were intended to be. The goodness that remains in fallen man is merely a shadow of what God created. Man was made to be in fellowship and communion with His Creator and the wealth of His wisdom and knowledge working in you was to be your reward. Jesus came to save sinners. To sin is to miss the mark of God’s high calling – His voice from Heaven. Through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the perfect order of Heaven was to be established in your life. Unfortunately, the attention given to voices heeds you to look around and to see what the masses are saying. To listen to what makes sense to them even if it contradicts what God is saying. The serpent in the Garden of Eden tempted Eve with a contradiction, “you shall not surely die, but you will be as God knowing both good and evil.” 

 Jesus is the Word of God, the voice from Heaven made flesh to dwell among us. The Law brought forth the Word, but the Word became word. Although the prophets spoke of the Word, it was the Word becoming word that illuminated the path to man’s salvation. When Jesus came, the Word became flesh and was personified so that the activity contained in the Word could be given full expression among us. We could then witness God’s original intentions in contrast to the nonsense of sinful activities that lead to death. He did not merely speak the Word, but thankfully, He led those who were willing to follow Him into discipleship. 

 Jesus came to save those who recognize their need for salvation. Those who cannot see it are blinded by the world’s fancies and live a life of perpetual dying until they finally succumb to their final end of eternal death. Christ came! Know this and know why He came that you may live!