When Jesus appears to his disciples after his resurrection he says something that proves true to me over and over. My mind has been opened to understand the Scriptures. They are living words and God speaks to me in different ways on different days.

Luke 24:44-47

Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”

Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,

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and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead,

and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

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