Our lives are full of issues that are the result of sin's dominion in our lives. If you think that sin does not have dominance then consider the scripture "Lust when it is conceived brings forth sin and sin when it is finished brings forth death". Do you know or know of anyone that is not subject to death? Considering population statistics it would seem that even those considered very pious don't gain much over those considered hardened sinners. I'm not suggesting casting off all restraint to eat, drink, and be merry. I'm only suggesting that all humans are far off the path that Jesus walked and left to our devices we will continue that way to oblivion whether we will it or not. We've somehow gotten the mistaken idea that the Kingdom of God is somehow about health, wealth, and a host of other false gods that we are praying the God of Heaven to make work because we can't see into the unseen realm. Not only have we not seen it, but we have been taught ideas that lead us in the opposite direction. We think that when something in our world goes wrong its because of something we did and that if we pray God's forgiveness our world will be restored to the way it was. It went wrong because it was wrong and it needed to be brought down so that we would look for the world that cannot be shaken and that world is hidden within who We are, not within who we think we are. The point here is that our whole lives are sin because we deny Our very identity, we call God a liar by telling Him who we are rather than accepting who He says We are. And its these false identities that are the root of our sinfulness because we constantly invent and implement ways of making these dead selves feel alive before men including ourselves and fooling theseselves into feeling justified before God based upon adherence to behavioral ideals. In effect we make the ideals into gods and the amount that they can be lived up to is the measure of one's devotion to the God of creation, but upon examination these efforts only serve to keep one distracted from the fundamental insecurity of the animal human existence. There is no real triumph because in the end the strength fails and the man is laid to rest. What's the point, then?
Let's look from another viewpoint and reexamine this man of sin.
The man of sin is doomed to sin because he is cut off from the source of life that is within the Man God has planted in each and every human that has or ever will live. He is always going to fail in his efforts to get back to God because he can only get there through the Son of which his True Self is one. The man of sin must see God in the Son and die an eternal death. The saying "Death is swallowed up in life" is fulfilled. What then? The new birth I say.
After the man of sin dies and rebirth by the Spirit occurs the whole course of the natural person must be reined in, but the devices of the old man are not those of the new. The proud say I can do it. The humble says it is working in me. No flesh shall glory in the presence of the Lord.