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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Y2K" data-source="post: 10835164" data-attributes="member: 35049">Priya: Jesus, when we get back to the boat, could you please get me my medicine from the brown bottle in my bag? It's to help with the pain ... I'm afraid it does nothing for the disease.Jesus: That's the way it is with man's attempt to gain favor with God, too. All that you've seen here-the ceremony, the superstition-is dealing with the pain. It doesn't get at the disease.Where's your cup, Priya?Priya: I put it back in the bag so nobody would come in contact with it.Jesus: Fill it with water for me, please.Priya: What're you doing? Wait! No, don't! Why ... why did you drink from my cup? My germs are all over that cup! Why did you do this to yourself?Jesus: I did it for you, Priya, in even greater measure than this. No one wants to drink from your cup. Buddha said that you filled your cup with your choices and so you alone must drink it. I say to you something different.Read my Word, Priya. Shortly before those who wanted me crucified came to take me, I was alone in prayer, in communion with my heavenly Father. As I prayed, I knew that the cup of suffering and death that I was to drink from was for all mankind. I knew it was a bitter cup. It contained the sins and the shame of the whole world. In agreeing to drink from that cup I knew it would even separate me for a moment from my Father. That desolation was the most fearsome thing I was called upon to do. But in drinking from that cup, I was able to offer the gift of eternal life to all who would accept it.Priya: You mean you've taken a drink from the cup of all human suffering and sin ... and even death?Jesus: Yes, I have.A thousand years before that moment, one of the psalmists of Israel spoke of it. Out of the depths of pain he cried:The LORD is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion. I believed; therefore I said, "I am greatly afflicted." And in my dismay I said, "All men are liars." How can I repay the LORD for all his goodness to me?I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the LORD.I offer my cup for yours, Priya. At the Cross I drank your cup. Now I give you a fresh cup of eternal life. You can drink from it.This is your chance, Priya. Take it freely.Buddha: It's getting a bit dark; it's time to return. Who'll pay the boatman? I don't keep any money with me.Boat Driver: No need for it. What I've learned has been of infinite worth.Jesus: But then you have to bear the cost.Boat Driver: Please consider it my gift.Jesus: Before you leave, War, may I offer you my gift too? With just a slight change of intonation, your name would mean "temple," wouldn't it?Boat Driver: Yes, but I could never make that change because only a building can be a temple.Jesus: I have said in my Word that each person is meant to be a temple, and I make my home in each one who invites me to come in. I offer you that relationship as well.Boat Driver: I'll never forget you, Sir!Priya: I suppose neither of you can go back to my home with me?Buddha: No, I can't.Jesus: I can.</blockquote>

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