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My brothers and sisters, if you are in Christ you are a new creation, the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come. You have now become the temple of the living God and your life is no longer yours; you belong to Christ and have been purchased with His blood. The Holy Spirit, who has been poured out within your heart, has sealed your fate. You are now no longer a slave to sin, but a slave to righteousness. You have been transferred into the kingdom of Jesus Christ. This was a supernatural rebirth that you could not attain or achieve in and of yourself. The Scriptures tell us, “Just as the wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” For though the body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness, for the Spirit who raised Christ Jesus from the dead also gives life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. As the Puritan Thomas Watson said, “This is the mystical union between Christ and the believer. For this reason alone you will not be able to tolerate sin, nor continue in the habitual practice of it.”

Let me begin by saying that I love the United States of America. I absolutely believe that it’s the greatest country in the world, and I am so grateful that God chose to plant me here, where we are free.

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is a member-based 501(c)(4) nonprofit corporation that operates the electric grid and manages the deregulated market for 75 percent of the state, according to their website www.ercot.com. ER- COT—governed by a board of directors and regulated by the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Texas Legislature—manages the flow of electric power to more than 26 million Texas customers -- representing about 90 percent of the state’s electric load.