Muncie Times, Muncie, Delaware County, 1 July 2004 — Page 44

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Isaac? Let us start with the Great Commission, in Luke 24:46-49 “...Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are witnesses of these thihgs. And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until ye be endued with power from on high.” Then we find Jesus; promise of the Spirit in John 14:16-26. Here it is called the “...Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to

you...because I live, ye shall live also. At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.” The question is also asked, “Who must have the Holy Ghost in order to be in the body of Christ; in order to be a child of Christ; in order to be a child of God?” We find, in the first chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, Peter, John the Beloved, and the other disciples approximately 120, and among them Mary, the mother of Jesus. These all returned to the upper room, received the Holy Ghost, as promised of the Father, and spoke in tongues as the Spirit of God gave the utterance. Peter fulfilled the Great Commission that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in Jesus; name, on the day of

Pentecost, when he stood up and commanded everyone to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and promised that they should receive the gift of the holy Ghost. “For the promise is to you and your children.” Thus you will become seed after the promise given to Abraham. “For if ye be Christ’s then are ye Abraham’s seed.” This is the seal of the New Testament child of God. This is the earnest of our inheritance, which assures us that we will receive our redeemed body at the coming of the Lord. “For . *" by one spirit are ye all baptizing unto one body.” Grieve not the holy spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption (Ephesians 4:30). After that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of

promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory (Ephesians 1:13). Ephesians 1:4-5 says, “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him in love”. Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will. In conclusion, may I refer once more to Romans 8:35-39, which declares that nothing shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord? This church is not comparable to any other church, because there has never been another like it. We are not naive

enough to not realize tha some people are going t< fall by the wayside ant forsake the truth, as Dema: and others have done in the past. However, by tht destination of the church, i shall go on and on until ii goes up. Praise the Lord!

Ball State students find ‘pot of gold’ when unearthing archaeological site

Broken pieces of pottery, animal bones and discarded tools were trash to Native Americans hundreds of years ago, but the materials in Hamilton County are an archaeological pot of gold for students from Ball State University. Students participating in the archaeological field school, sponsored by the Ball State Department of Anthropology, have located nearly 50 pre- Columbian archaeological sites on 200 acres of farmland in the flood plain along the White River in Hamilton County. Until recent heavy rains stopped their work, students unearthed several large, circular pits that had been filled with trash from* the area’s original occupants on what is now Koteewj Park. “We found the site

two years ago and quickly realized it was intriguing because of all the artifacts, some of which were right on the surface,” said Beth McCord, assistant director for research for ball Statefs Archaeological Resource management Service. “We have found a great deal of material that will tell us more about the people who lived there centuries ago.” The summer field school is being funded, in part by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National park Service Historic Preservation Fund administered by the Division of Historical Preservation and .Archaeology of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. Eleven students spent several weeks in May and June recording the archaeological sites and

testing a part of one site. A magnetometer survey of the excavated site revealed many features, but the students were only able to excavate 11 of them. The features were large, circular oval pits about three feet wide and three feet deep. Don Cochran, director of the archaeological service, believes the site will improve the understanding of the transition to dependence on corn horticulture. The time period for the transitional phase is somewhere from 1000 to 1300 A.D. “This is about the time we think that corn became the dominant food source for theses people,” he said. “At that point, they began to settle down and raise more crops. The pits on the site show that some were used for cooking, but

other uses are not yet known.” Cochran believes the Strawtown site, which is being developed as a park and recreations area by the Hamilton County parks department, may be the literal “crossroads of America,” which is also the Indiana state motto.

“There also is evidence that the Strawtown area was a transitional or boundary region for people from the east and the west,” “We seem to have an area that attracted people that were culturally linked with the Great Lakes, Ohio and other parts of Indiana.”

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