Does a True Born Again Seed of God Believer Know When He Is Sinning?
1) Direct Answer
Yes. A true born‑again seed of God knows when he is wrong. The Holy Spirit in him exposes it, convicts him, and will not let him live in it. He may stumble, but he cannot continue in known sin or justify it.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- “Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin… and he cannot sin, because he is born of God” (1 John 3:9; 5:18). The new birth plants God’s Seed in the soul; the root sin—unbelief—cannot rule there.
- The Spirit “will reprove the world of sin” and “guide you into all truth” (John 16:8,13). A son is “led by the Spirit of God” (Romans 8:14).
- God chastens every true son (Hebrews 12:6–8). If someone can continue in sin without correction, he is not a son.
- If a believer does wrong, he is moved to confess and make it right: “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive” (1 John 1:9); “we have an advocate with the Father” (1 John 2:1).
- The inward man agrees with God’s law (Romans 7:22), and the sheep hear His voice (John 10:27). So they cannot be satisfied to walk against the Word.
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
Now notice: sin, at its core, is unbelief. Acts like lying or immorality are the fruits of that root. A born‑again person has a new nature that believes the Word. He may make mistakes in the flesh, but the life inside won’t let him rest there—he is convicted, chastened, and brought to repentance. If one can practice known sin and feel at home in it, that shows he has not been born of God.
Short reinforcing statement
You see, the Seed in the soul won’t sin. The Spirit will always pull that believer back to the light, to confession, cleansing, and walking in truth.
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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
Sirs, we would see Jesus
57-0104 §24
...rinking, committing adultery, cursing, and so forth. That isn't sin. Committing adultery isn't sin. Smoking cigarettes and drinking whiskey isn't sin; that's the attributes of unbelief. Unbelief is sin. Saint John 3 said, "He that believeth not is condemned already." There's only two roads. One of them is unbelief and the other one is faith. Jesus said, "He that heareth My words and believeth on Him that sent Me has everlasting life." Not "this, that, this or that," but has everlasting life because he believes. And...
The unpardonable sin
54-1024 §74
But let me tell you the Gospel truth now in the coming revival: "Except a man be born of water and of Spirit, he will in nowise enter into the kingdom"; the words of Jesus Christ in Saint John the third chapter. He told the great ruler that was a religious man; he was a renown man, he was a pious man, he was a teacher, he was a scholar. Everything that you could expect in him, he was. But Jesus told him that he did not have everlasting life, 'cause he hadn't been... He didn't even understand it. He said, "Except a...
The presence of God unrecognized
64-0618 §79
And Jesus said, "Except a man be borned again [become as much Christian as that deer was a mother], you'll never see God." You're done, no matter how many churches you join. He was talking to a religious leader of that day, Nicodemus (eighty-year old man), and told him that he must be born, he must become the kind of a Christian like the deer was a mother there. Was there one that didn't put up their hands, would really know the presence of God recognize it, and say, "I know that I'm wrong."? When you realize you'r...
You must be born again
61-1231M §87
But the true word comes to the true prophet, and he tells you the true word. You follow that true word, and you get a true experience of the Word because the Word is made flesh in you, and you become God's son, and the Word of God is revolving right out of God into you, because you are of His nature, His Spirit is in you and you'll do the works of God. Hallelujah! The Bible said so. Oh, my!
Hearing, recognizing, acting on the Word of God
60-0221 §61
Now, anyone knows that the seal of God is the birthright, the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Ephesians 4:30 says, "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you're sealed till the day of your redemption." When they were born again, they were filled with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the new birth, we know that. You're begotten of the Spirit, I'll admit that, but until you're born... A baby is begotten in its mother's womb, it's got one kind of life. That's life in its little ... the little cells in its body is t...