Theology of St. Paul: The key to understanding Paul is his mystical experience of Jesus on the road to Damascus. For Paul, the Gospel is the power of God for salvation for everyone who has faith. Under the power of sin and death, man found himself in a predicament from which he could not free himself. But God graciously justified man through Christ. The redeemed now live in the community of the Church where, empowered by the Spirit, they lead a morally good life, as they wait for the fullness of their redemption that will occur at the general resurrection of the dead. Taken from a series of sermons given by Father Kenneth Baker, S.J., on the Letters of Saint Paul the Apostle: Sermon 17 of 17. Father Baker was the editor of the Homiletic and Pastoral Review for 40 years.