As I was finishing digging the raspberry bushes out of my yard and lamenting over my laziness in letting them take over my yard, I was still thinking about how similar to sin those raspberry bushes were. However, my thoughts were now moving in a different direction. I have heard people say, “Well, everyone has a sin that so easily entangles them. This is mine.” I have to confess it makes me sad and as I was digging and cutting down the raspberries, I realized why it makes me sad. I had the power over the bushes. I didn’t have to let them stay in the yard, I chose to let them stay in the yard. Then I started getting excited because I realized that I have the same power over sin that I had over the bushes. Sin is already defeated!! We no longer have to let it say in our life. Praise God! We can say no to sin and yes to “God-likeness." In fact, we are commanded to “throw off the sin that so easily entangles." There is ...