When Is a Person Seed of God- Before or After Being Born Again?
1) Direct Answer
Before. A person is seed of God by God’s choosing before the new birth; the new birth is when that seed is quickened, manifested, and brought to life by the Spirit through the Word.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- Ephesians 1:4–5: Chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world and predestined unto adoption. That shows sonship in God’s purpose before time, and the new birth brings it into experience.
- John 10:26–27: “You believe not, because you are not of my sheep… My sheep hear my voice.” Notice, they are sheep first; hearing and following proves what they already are.
- Galatians 4:6: “Because you are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts.” The Spirit comes because of sonship—showing seed precedes quickening.
- 1 Peter 1:23: “Being born again… by the word of God.” The incorruptible seed is the Word; the Spirit quickens that seed to life.
- 1 John 3:9: “His seed remaineth in him.” The life comes forth because His seed is there.
- Romans 8:29–30: Whom He foreknew, He predestinated, called, justified, glorified. The call and justification unfold what God purposed beforehand.
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
Now notice the order God shows: seed first—life next. A seed lying in the ground is still a seed before it springs up. The season does not create the seed; it quickens it. So the new birth does not make you a son in God’s mind; it reveals and manifests that you are one, by bringing that predestined seed to repentance, faith in Christ, and a Spirit-filled walk. Without a seed, there is nothing to quicken; with the seed present, the Word and the Spirit will call it to life in God’s time.
Short Reinforcing Statement
You see, the sheep were always His in God’s foreknowledge. The new birth is that moment when the Shepherd’s voice strikes the seed, and life comes forth.
Ask a Follow-up Question
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.
Questions and Answers (God being misunderstood)
61-0723E §82
And nobody knowed nothing about it. It was a strange thing that the King of the Jews was born and people hundreds of miles away knowed about it; and right here in the city where He was born, and the place He was born, amongst the people He was born to, and they knowed nothing about it. They misunderstood the Magi. They said, "There's no such a thing as the king of the Jews. We got a king up here, Herod." He was misunderstood in His birth when He was born. And Mary was to be mother before she was married to Joseph....
Everlasting Life and how to receive it
54-1231 §24
Now, in the Old Testament when a son was born into a home, it was a son because it was born in a home. My son is my son when he was born to me. And when the Pentecostal church gave birth, or found what they called "the birth, the new birth, or the Holy Ghost church," that they were born into the kingdom of God. Well, now, in the Old Testament... Now, in Ephesians, the first chapter, it said, "We are predestinated unto the adoption of sons." Unto the adoption of sons? Look at that: "The adoption of sons." Yes, sir....
Return and Jubilee
62-1122 §39
before it can be a body of human beings. Before I can act as a human, before I can walk like a human, before I can talk like a human I have to be born a human. How would a knot on a tree know how I acted? How could he ever say, "I don't act like that"? The only way he could be that would be to be born like me. That's the way organizations today has drawed people away, because it went after a creed. But in order to be a son of God, you got to be borned of the Spirit of God. Then you become Christ-like and do the wor...
Abraham and his Seed after him
61-0416 §66
we know in the Old Testament what happened. In the Old Testament there was such a thing as a son being born in a home... Now be sure you get this. Are you hearing it? Say, "Amen." I know you think I'm crazy this afternoon, or maybe all the time, but I want you to get it. Now watch what He did. When a man was born or a child born into a family, he was born a son. Is that right? But he had no inheritance yet. He had to be tutored. Is that right? Now when you receive the Holy Ghost... There's where the Pentecost made...
I will restore
54-0620A §20
Now, when Cain was born and Abel was born, there were two sons, two boys, and both of them had a spirit. And one was contrary to another. Now, I'm sitting here, perhaps, before a dozen or more churches. And I wouldn't teach a doctrine that was contrary to anything you'd heard. I have my opinion of whose son Cain was and where that evil streak come from. It could not have come from God nor from Adam. So he was evil to begin with. He was born evil. And being a little Calvinistic myself, I believe in foreordination, a...