Can a Truly Born Again Christian Be Demon Possessed?
1) Direct Answer
No. A truly born-again Christian cannot be demon-possessed. When the Holy Spirit comes in, He takes ownership of that life. The devil cannot cross the Blood, cannot share that temple, and cannot possess the soul that is sealed by the Holy Ghost.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- The Bible says believers are “sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise… until the redemption” (Ephesians 1:13-14). A sealed life is not an open house.
- “Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world” (1 John 4:4). The One inside is greater than any spirit outside.
- “Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost” (1 Corinthians 6:19), and “what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?” (2 Corinthians 6:16). God doesn’t share His temple with demons.
- We have been “delivered from the power of darkness” (Colossians 1:13). Delivered is not half-owned.
- “Whosoever is born of God… his seed remaineth in him” (1 John 3:9). God’s life remains; the enemy can’t take that throne.
- Jesus spoke of an unclean spirit returning to an empty house (Matthew 12:43-45). The key word is empty. The born-again life is not empty; it is indwelt.
- Jesus described the “strong man,” but said a “stronger than he” comes and takes over (Luke 11:21-22). Christ, the Stronger One, occupies the believer.
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- Possession means ownership and control of the inner man. That cannot happen where the Holy Spirit dwells and seals.
- Oppression is different. A believer can be harassed, tempted, or afflicted in body or mind. Scripture shows a “daughter of Abraham” whom Satan had bound physically (Luke 13:16), and believers are told, “Neither give place to the devil” (Ephesians 4:27). So attacks are real, but ownership is not.
- The Bible’s order is clear: repent, submit to God, and “resist the devil, and he will flee” (James 4:7). He may knock, but he cannot take the house that the Lord has sealed.
Short Reinforcing Statement
The Holy Ghost does not cohabit with demons. The believer’s soul is sealed; the enemy may battle from the outside, but he cannot possess what the Blood has purchased and the Spirit indwells.
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.
The Faith Of Abraham
59-0415E §18
Therefore, that every person that's been born again of the Holy Spirit, truly born ... not just thought they were born, not went through some emotion, not went through some sensation, but was truly born. They could have all the emotion, sensation with it; but you could have the sensation and emotion and not be born. But those who are born of the Spirit of God are Abraham's seed. Not seeds, but seed---the promised seed. For it's through Christ, which was the Son of Abraham. If you can get a hold of this. Then if we...
What does it take to make a Christian life?
57-0113 §55
If you just say to God, "Here's my hand, God; I truly want You to come into my heart. I've belonged to church for years. I believe something happened to me, but I've never been able to live that type of life that the preacher is speaking of. I am living a life of ups and downs, and I'm up and done and in and out and I can't get nowhere. God, maybe I just received a new spirit. Your Word said so. Your prophet said that You said You'd give them a new spirit, then put Your Spirit in the new spirit; and maybe I just go...
Images of Christ
59-0525 §28
...cause. Hold on to it with all you've got. It's a blood washed way. It cleans a man up. Not going out here drinking, and smoking, and rallying around, and calling themselves Christians because they belong to a church. It's that clean, unadulterated Holy Spirit in a human life that reflects Jesus Christ, the Son of God. That's why people today reject the new birth. Oh, they've got what they call the new birth. "I went up shaking hands with the pastor." But that's not a birth. The reason they won't accept it... That's...
Hear ye Him
57-0105 §40
And that's what the Father God has done for His church. And when we are born into the church of the living God (and that's the only way we can get into it), for by birth, one spirit. I've been with the Branham family forty-seven years, and they never did ask me to join the family. Why? I was born a Branham. And that's how you become a Christian, when you're not joined a Christian, but born a Christian.
Sirs, we would see Jesus
61-1224 §86
Oh, one of them say, "He was born right here. We got a church built over it." Other one said, "He was born over here." Like... You know how many nails they got, can prove it, original nails that was in the cross? Nineteen---each fellow holding a nail. "This, we got it. Hallelujah, we got it." They just got some dead bones of some... "We got it, we got it. This is the place He was born." Others say, "This is the place He was born." They say, "This is the place He was born." What difference does it make? Here's where...