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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Sirs, we would see Jesus
54-0328 §25
...eyes are blinded from truth and they can't believe. They haven't got nothing to believe with. How can I move a hand if I haven't got a hand to move with? How can I believe God when I'm just look at a word here, and Him not in here? You've got to have God in here first, before you can believe God. "Except a man be born again, he can't see the kingdom of God." Is that right? See it is "understand it." So how can a man that's not born again know anything about the kingdom of God? Jesus said Himself, "Except a man be...
The Seed is not heir with the shuck
65-0218 §29
There is no judgment to the royal, spiritual, predestinated seed of Abraham, for they are predestinated to eternal life. They have accepted God's provided sacrifice and ... that sacrifice which was Christ, the Word. "And there is therefore now no condemnation [St. John 5:24, if you want the Scripture] there is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus [Romans 8:1] ... walk not after the flesh, but the Spirit." And Romans 5:24, "He that heareth my word..." The word there is "understandeth." Any...
Fellowship through the reconciliation of the blood
55-0605 §62
...around through the country for three and a half years, that there was a fellow around there, healing the sick, performing miracles, seeing visions. He claimed to be the Son of God. He claimed that God was in Him; that He'd done nothing of Himself, but giving praise and glory to God for it. The church of that day condemned Him, and refused Him, and said, "He won't join up with our church, so we won't have nothing to do with Him." And refused the members to receive Him. "He came to His own, and His own received Him n...
You must be born again
61-1231M §125
Don't say it, "Lord, I know I oughtn't to say it." Well, you might not say it with your lips, but mean it in your heart, see. It's your heart's what counts, see. When you're born again of the Spirit of God, you actually love everybody. Now you don't love their ways and things like that, don't want to partake of it. No, sir. Stay away from the things of the world, but you just keep yourself spotless. And the only way you have to do it, it comes from the inside out, like the dove fixing his feathers, you see. He don'...
You must be born again
61-1231M §78
Still with tempers, still mean, arrogant, somebody say something about you, you light up, ready to fight. And then born of the Spirit of God? No. God's Spirit don't do like that. No. God's Spirit is humble, meek, sweet, long-suffering. That's God---loving, kind, forgiving, that's God's Spirit. Oh, yes. But they'll hold to that denomination, and speak in tongues, prophesy, do all kinds of works. Jesus said they'd do it. "Having a form of godliness." Hold to the denomination because that's their father. They was born...