Looking at Him Heals our Unbelief
Sanctification (God cleaning us up) becomes a process Only because we don't believe it's already done, or we've allowed the demonic forces to influence us against that reality. I think one of the reasons we don't believe is because we look at the lack of imperfection in us, instead of Christ, the perfect, sinless One, that lives inside of us. We have been joined with Him in marriage, so we are sanctified by Him-we aren't changed, per see, but we are swallowed up by the power of His Presence in us. If we reckon ourselves dead (believe we died with Him on the cross, and then represented by going under the waters in baptism,) then the New Life that came up, is Christ! "Old things have passed away; all things have become new." Do we believe this?