# Questions - Week 23: How Are Minds Opened Today?

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Podcast: [Awake Us Now](https://stenobird.com/podcast/awake-us-now-3481)
Published: 2026-04-19T16:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

This message focuses on the question: "How are minds opened today?", which is part of our ongoing series: "What's the answer?" Pastor explores how people's lives are changed and what changes their attitudes about God, about Jesus, the resurrection, and about the power of God's Word. Pastor takes us through Luke 24:36-47, an encounter with Jesus that His disciples have with Him after His resurrection. Jesus tells them: "This is what I told you while I was still with you; Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses , the Prophets and the Psalms ." Luke 24:44. He tells them everything written there points to Him. Then next verse says, "Then He opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures." How did Jesus do that? Let's look at Luke's clues … Law of Moses Passover Lamb - Exodus 12. As protection from the tenth plague God told them He would passover their homes if they would take a lamb without spot or blemish, kill it, spread its blood on the doorposts of their homes, then roast and eat the lamb. In Luke 22:15-16 Jesus tells His disciples: "I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover meal with you before I suffer. For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it finds fulfillment in the kingdom of God." What He is saying about the Passover is that HE is the one that will fulfill it as The Passover Lamb. The Passover is a preview of God's redemption through the shed blood of Jesus. Blood of the Covenant - Exodus 24. Moses built an altar at the foot of Mt. Sinai and the Israelites pledged to follow God. Moses took the blood of bulls, sprinkled it on the altar and the people saying, "This is the blood of the Covenant that the Lord has made with you…" Exodus 24:8. What this is, again, is a preview of the coming Christ and the fulfillm…

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