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.
The Law having a shadow
56-0621 §55
...s condemned already." You don't have to do anything; you're condemned already. Now, drinking, committing adultery, and that, that's not sin. You do that because you're an unbeliever. You're an unbeliever to begin with. That's the reason you do those things. Now, if you once get right with Christ, those things will just ... they're circumcised at the altar. When you confess it, God just takes it away, and puts the life of Himself in you. And then you're in Christ and you can't come to judgment. Jesus said in Saint J...
Hebrews, Chapter 7, part 2
57-0922 §47
You'll appreciate that, you'll love it (if you're a real Christian) to a place that sin would haunt you till you couldn't do it. "For the seed of God remains in him, and he cannot sin." The Bible said, "Once purged by the blood of Jesus, has no more desire of sin." If you have a desire, your heart's not right with God. Now, you will do wrong, but you don't do it willfully. See, you're trapped, and anything you're trapped into (or do something that you don't mean to do it), it's not sin yet, you'll repent the minute...
I know
60-0417S §39
It taken those people who had seen Him open the eyes of the blind, seen Him stand there and perceive the very thoughts that was in the people's hearts. "How didn't He know," they'd say, "that them were coming after Him? How did He know... ? Why didn't He know Judas would betray Him? Why did He know the soldiers were coming up the mountain there with staves and swords and everything to get Him, if He could perceive their thoughts?" See, the devil was working on them, putting them on an ash heap, for they wanted to g...
When their eyes were opened
56-0420 §7
What is sin? Unbelief. Smoking, drinking, committing adultery, lying, stealing, that's not sin. That's the attributes of sin. You do that because you're an unbeliever. If you was a believer, you wouldn't do that, see. Just because you quit drinking, and quit smoking, and quit drinking and committing adultery, that doesn't make you a Christian. You're a Christian because you are a believer, see. You are a sinner, you do the things that you ought not, because the life that's in you makes you do it. The tree's known b...
Token
63-0901M §61
There is a Token over there, the Holy Spirit, that it belongs to God. It is His. "When I see the token, I'll pass over you"---a positive token. The Holy Spirit is our Token. Therefore, when you receive the Holy Ghost, you've passed from death to life. That's all there is to it, because life is in you. You can no more perish. The Bible said, "He that is born of God, does not commit sin." For he cannot sin, for the Seed of God. Amen! The Seed of God remains in him, and how can he sin, when the sinless God is in him....