Your mind, will and emotions have to be renewed. Once I was lost, but God judged that person, poured out Himself on him and destroyed that old person. God, who is a consuming fire, burned up the garbage and purified me like gold in a furnace. Saul of Tarsus got Baptized with Fire on the road to Damascus. We Christians are blessed in the fact that that happens to us here, while we are still in our mortal bodies.
Most people don t have that happen until their mortal bodies have died.
They die in their sins and stand before God on judgment day still having to go through that fire . God doesn t treat some people differently than He treats others. The wages of sin is death. Before you know God, you are dead. You turn on a light.