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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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 §36
Now, one man could not save the other. Now, it makes no difference what anyone tries to say, no man can save another. No matter how smart, what his office is, let him be a pastor, priest, bishop, cardinal, or pope, he cannot have one thing to do with saving any man's life, because he is a sinner himself---born in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies. He's a liar to start with, and any word that he would say would be a lie if it was contrary to God's Word and God's plan.
You must be born again
61-1231M §72
...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 makes him a new creation. As soon as he can get the outlet, he'll drive over snowy grounds or anything else to get to it. Away he'll go, because he's a duck to begin with. Yeah. Not a creed. No-no, no-no.
God in His Word
57-0323 §14
Now, God doesn't tempt men, but God tries men---tests them. God cannot tempt you, but God can test you. And every son that cometh to God must be tested, or child-trained before he can be a son. And if we can't stand chastisement, the Bible said, "We become illegitimate children and not the children of God," because a child of God is born of God, and he will stand the test anywhere, any time on any condition. That's right. A child that's born of God. "He who is born of God, does not commit sin." Notice. Now Job was...
Identified with Christ
59-1220E §40
In the Old Testament when a man wanted to be identified at the house of God, he took the most innocent thing he could find, a lamb. And he knowed the lamb was free from sin, because it knowed no sin. And he went, and took the lamb, and put his hand upon its head, and confessed his sin; and by faith he transferred his sins on the lamb, and the innocence of the lamb back on him. And then, the lamb died, because it was a sinner. And the man lived by an act of faith of obeying what God said. But what did he do? He went...
Hebrews, Chapter 6, part 2
57-0908E §31
That's how it is with Christ, when a man's borned of the Spirit of God. Not because he shouted, spoke in tongues or some emotion; but in his heart, love come in and taken the place of the world. I'd say he loves and he walks by Him every day. You don't have to tell him "it's wrong to do this, that, or the other," he knows it's wrong. And he walks... He's a ordained product of God's sovereign grace. Exactly! For it is impossible for those which were once enlightened, ... made partakers of the heavenly calling [now,...