Its power has been broken. So that every sincere believer, with God's help, can live an overcoming and victorious Christian life. We need no longer be slaves to sin. One word of caution. What folly it is to somehow seek to sanction our own sinfulness by scoffing at those who aim even for the unattainable.
Trees never reach the sky, but they keep growing in that direction.
We will never in this life attain perfection, but we will keep growing toward it. Perfection, then, is not the end, But the direction of sanctification. The pursuit after sanctification must never yield itself to legalism. For some the journey toward purity of life has tipped in the direction of externals. There has developed a kind of obsession to clean up the outer man.