They spring from a true and living faith and are pleasing and acceptable to God in Christ. Justification and Regeneration. God justifies and regenerates sinners when they personally believe and repent Justification is a judicial act which absolves us of the guilt and punishment for sin and restores us to divine favour. Justification has to do with the changing of the sinners standing before God. Regeneration has to do with the changing of the sinner's nature through the impartation of divine life.
Regeneration is a spiritual quickening, a new birth.
This experience is witnessed to by the indwelling Holy Spirit who produces in the heart a desire to do the will of God. Sanctification and Filling with the Holy Spirit Sanctification is defined as the work of God in making believers holy and renewing them in the image of God. It is the will of God that each believer should be cleansed from sin and filled with the Holy Spirit and sanctified. Sanctification involves separation from sin and full dedication to the will of God. God in turn bestows power for holy living and effective service.