The person's soul is purified by the blood of Jesus, and the record of sin that we carried was wiped clean.
Colossians 2:13-15 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.
He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.
God then made us alive in the spirit, transferred us to the kingdom of the Son He loves, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places.
2 Corinthians 5:17-21 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Colossians 1:13-14 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
In the spiritual realm, born again believers are already positionally in heaven.
Ephesians 2:4-7 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
Salvation is by faith alone in Christ alone. There is not one morsel of righteousness in any of us descended from Adam, so we cannot even approach The Holy God, He has to do it all, reconciling us to Himself to the glory of Christ alone. But men don't want only God, they want to exchange some deeds they believe are due recompense, so they can shre Christ's glory for their works.
It is never our works, for God is righteous and we are not so we cannot do deeds of righteousness unless GOD FIRST reconciles us to Himself through Whom H sent for our redeeming ... by faith alone in Christ alone, not one scintilla of our deeds for we cannot do righteous deeds until He imputes Christ's righteousness to us.