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.
You must be born again
61-1231M §83
people of today take all kinds of spirits. They go up and take a church spirit. They even take spirits that call themselves God's spirits, born again, and deny the Word of God being true. Could you imagine the Spirit of God denying His own Word? To you Catholic people ---Roman Catholic, I mean---could you actually say that you are born of the Spirit of God, and take those dogmas which is contrary to the Bible, and deny the Word of God? And say that you are ... the Spirit of God's in you, the Spirit that wrote this...
Demonology
53-1120 §2
I've often heard people say, "Brother Branham, why don't you take the initiative side. Go right out there and just take the side and rebuke the enemy." I was afraid to. Because I--I suppose, maybe, I'd, I maybe had seen something that I should not have seen. And I do realize, friends, with all sincerity, that this is not just a--a drama, a stage show. We're in church and--and it's the--it's the power of Almighty God. And it's demon spirits are on people, it's if I tell Christians that... Now, I don't mean if... You...
You must be born again
61-1231M §118
...nner, or not, I don't know. I can't say that. But this one thing I do know, wherein I was once blind, I now see." What was he doing? He was vindicated. That's right. He was being vindicated. Something happened to him. His being was changed from darkness to light, from blind to sight. And a man that's born of the Spirit of God---that once had a form of godliness, deny the Word thereof, and the power thereof, and to say the days of miracles is past---when he's born again, he might not be a scholar, he might not be ab...
You must be born again
61-1231M §92
...e birth of churches, the birth of creeds, the birth of denominations. And here you are, Pentecostal brother, false ... or sensations, and tell a man he's got the Holy Ghost because he speaks with tongues. I've seen devils speak with tongues, pencils lay down and write in unknown tongues. That don't mean a thing. See, it's got to be a life. "By their fruit you shall know them." "Brother Branham, do you believe in speaking in tongues?" "Yes, sir." "Do you believe in shouting?" "Yes, sir." To be a Christian, I believe...
You must be born again
61-1231M §72
"There is a fountain filled with blood, drawn from Immanuel's veins, where sinners plunge beneath the flood and lose all their guilty stain." A real Christian wants nothing to do with the world. They don't want to live around here haphazardly, wondering where they're at, and today they're Methodist and tomorrow they're Baptist, and Presbyterian, and Pentecostals, and so forth. Oh, brother, that's miserable! A real Christian wants to get the freshness of the Spirit, the freshness of God in his life, something that m...