By this divine work the sinner is re-created in and to newness of life, has the defilement of his heart cleansed or “washed” away (Ezek. 36:25-26; John 3:5; Titus 3:5), and is [supernatually] enabled to “see” and to “enter” the kingdom of God by faith (John 3:3, 5).

He is also enabled to believe in Jesus (John 1:12-13), to believe Jesus is the Christ (1 John 5:1), to love others, particularly other Christians (1 John 4:7; 5:1); and to do righteousness and to shum the life of sin (1 John 3:9; 5:18). (A New Systematic Theology Of The Christian Faith, 719)

Dr. Robert L. Reymond