text:  As a young man, Paul would have believed he was a sinner and that he must work relentlessly to keep God's commandments. But now he's been convicted of the truth that he couldn't in the slightest accomplish this and that Jesus had already kept all of God's laws spotlessly and then forfeited his own blood, the perfect lamb of God, to pay Paul's unpayable debt. To say the least, he was absolutely transformed.