The problem Wes is that you are confusing sanctification with justification. Justification is an act done by God where He declares an individual “not guilty” so to speak and thus is freed from the penalty of sin. This is a free gift from God that is appropriated through faith in the atoning work of Christ and is not something that someone works to attain.
Sanctification does have two aspects to it. One is God setting aside an individual as holy and the other is God continuing to transform us in to the image of Christ.

I hope this clarifies things for you.

Scripture speaks to both. We are told that we are no longer slaves to sin however we are also admonished to continue in what we have received in Christ.

The need to understand the two aspects of Salvation; “justification and sanctification” embodies this question. Those who see these as an one time closed occurrence seem to struggle with the implications of “maturing” in Christ. The fruit of the Spirit Paul speaks of just hangs on the tree and the crisis of faith becomes a plan to endure instead of pruning to sweeten the fruit. However the pattern Scripture reveals to us appears to overtly and as a hint underlying many of its teachings to indicate the duel nature like two witnesses. This dual nature of birth and growth would seem to be the lesson behind such teachings as after converting one must become like a little child or seeds are put in a field and the maturity of the growth determines harvest outcome, both implying a starting leading to maturity. Even at the close of the Bible we are told that the righteous will continue and the unrighteous will continue increasingly, implying maturing.

If we take Scripture seriously man is inflected with two types of sin. The root or “original” bestowed upon us as inheritance from 1st Adam, and the fruit “habitual” growing and cultivated by us from our inheritance. Mankind lives out in our dissipating condition the creative fruitful inclinations formed in us by Yahweh.
Coming to Yahweh through Jesus; justification cuts at/out the root destroying the “life flow” so to speak, of sin. As the ways of nature show us even when the root of a tree is cut the fruit can still fall to the ground and reproduce itself. It would seem that this is what Jesus is speaking about in Matt.12:43-45 & Luke11:24-26 reflecting Lev.26:21 in the section of warning about turning away. Once the root is cut and dieing the tree is removed from its former place, the ground is made ready for the new tree. The fruit of the “Fallen” tree can be planted or the fruit of the “vine – dresser” the Father John 15 can be planted in the swept out house, to mix the teachings.

The flow of Scripture uses this picture of seed, growth, and maturity of fruit and it would appear that the aspects of sanctification are embodied here. Restored to the Garden relationship with Yahweh and having His Spirit living in us as 1st Adam once did we are able to cooperate with our Creator receiving the inheritance of the 2nd Adam; life over death. However we as 1st Adam stand at the foot of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. But at this point we have seen and tasted the mature fruit of that tree. This could get long , but the point is once we are freed from the slavery of 1st Adam we are free to turn and eat the tree of life and bear the fruit of that tree leading to entire sanctification. Without the root of evil’s cutting and the new planting from a new fruit the same old tree would grow, therefore both and.
Pastor Art