Philippians 3:8 Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ.

While we were attempting to begin again by studying the gospel of John, at this point it would be helpful to seek examples of what others did to discover this Christ and who is God and became flesh.

These are the words of Paul, who as Saul studied under Gamaliel, a teacher of renown in Torah. This Saul probably knew more about Jewish traditions and the law than any of us today. I cannot imagine what Paul knew. Paul threw that all away in order to know Christ.

That is not the whole truth in the matter. As Paul became aware of Jesus Christ all that he had learned from Gamaliet was seen with a clearer understanding about how those scriptures pointed to Jesus as the Messiah. That is how Paul could go into the synagogues and convince the leaders and teachers that those scriptures held all the secrets needed to identify Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah of promise.

Paul replaced the wrong message with the right message.

This is what we seek to do in reading the gospel of John as a roadmap to Christ. We must, like Sargent Schultz, see nothing, know nothing, and allow what is happening play out before us.

John 1:4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

The Word, Jesus, came into the world to show us what living a life in the will of the Father would look like. We must remember that this is just a beginning and we must be patient to allow everything to play out with a new understanding. A new way to look at old information.

John 1:6-8 English Standard Version

6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. 8 He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.

This John is John the Baptist and was foretold by the prophet Isaiah 40:3 A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.