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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Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
The sin of unbelief
58-0517E §41
Now, Jesus said, "I am the vine, ye are the branches." Now, the vine doesn't bear fruit; the branch bears fruit. And the branch will certainly bear the fruit of the vine. Is that true? Grafted, or whatever it may be, it's got to bear the life of the vine, because it's living from the vine. Jesus said, "The works that I do shall you also." Well, then, "If ye abide in me, and my Word in you, ask what you will and it'll be given." Then notice, would a peach tree bear peaches? A grapevine would bear grapes. A watermelo...
Ye must be born again
58-0619B §15
Now, there's many times that we begin to think that "Well, if we are born again and we got happy, and shouted, and spoke with tongues or manifested God in some way, that's it. But, brethren, you know as ministers yourself, that that's not it. Now we've seen people jump, shout, dance, and cheat, steal, lie and everything else, see, and we know that. So that isn't what He was talking about. And when Martin Luther said, "The just shall live by faith," he said, "we got it." And John Wesley come along with something new...
And knoweth it not
65-0815 §61
But if the Word of God is down in that soul, it says, "Amen, I see it." It lines up with it. Now, look here. Therefore the man that's born of the Spirit of God... See, here is the outside flesh. Now, I speak in a mixed audience, but I speak as your pastor, as your brother. Here's the flesh; it's weak. It's bound to. A little lady walks down the street and some young man, just in his young age, when he's seventeen, eighteen, twenty years old, twenty-five, thirty, walks around in there; and this young lady comes twis...
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...
You must be born again
61-1231M §44
First, we reckon ourselves sinners and worthy of condemnation. And we are all born in sin and shaped in iniquity, there's not a sound parcel of us. Our minds are bad, our soul is corruptible, our constant thinking is evil, every imaginary thought of a man's mind is evil---a sinner. And also that our body is weak, our spirit is no good, and we're just full of corruption. And how could one corruptible thing bring another good thing out of a corruptible? Let me say this, that in Job, fourteenth chapter, he said, "Seei...