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.
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 Queen of Sheba
60-0401E §1
...read directly from the original script the very words that Jesus and the disciples spoke and wrote. He felt that these translations that we have are not always correct and true. And that's where the criticism comes in, because he criticizes the King James version, and some people think that St. Paul preached from the King James version. They almost worship it, it's so wonderful. I think all translations might leave something to be desired. So I'm not going to vouch for any translation, but I know that God has seen...
Questions and Answers
59-1223 §83
...rother. Just turn right over to the third chapter here and the ninth verse. You're right on the same page in my Bible. Eighth verse to begin with: He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinned from the beginning. For the purpose the Son of God was made manifest, that he might destroy the works of the devil. [Just what I been talking about, see, God's predestinating, knowing you.] Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God....
Hebrews, Chapter 7, part 2
57-0922 §39
Then if we sin willfully, if we sin (disbelieve) willfully... Not after we receive the truth (been borned again), we couldn't sin then. A sinner cannot commit the unpar... A Christian cannot commit the unpardonable sin. He can't do it. It's the ungodly that does that. It's the make-believer, not the believer. Those Jewish rabbis, oh, they thought they were "starch," and they was D.D.'s and Ph.D.'s. They thought they had it "all sewed up, in a bag," but they was the worst of sinners! Oh, they might ... you couldn't...
You must be born again
61-1231M §53
And if His elements of the earth, upon looking, seeing what was taking place, shook them to that condition, what ought it do to me and you? What ought our souls to do when we look and see what God did for us? And it was all for you and for me. What ought it to do to us? Continue in sin? God forbid. But to abstain from sins, and die to sin. Don't you see what sin done to Him? Sin killed Him. And He took the penalty of sin, that He might bring the righteousness of God to you and me. So when the righteousness of God c...
Questions and Answers
59-0628E §106
...ns by, "Sinneth not" in I John 5:18? My, we're right at it, I believe here. Maybe... Turned right straight to it. Maybe the Lord wanted me to read it. All right, I John, We know that whosoever is borned of God sinneth not;... Certainly not! I just went through that. He can't sin; he's born of God. "Sinneth not," he can't sin, the seed remains in him. Another Scripture you might refer to here would be Romans 4:8, 4 and 5-8 where God... David spoke years ago and said, "Blessed is the man who God will not impute sin t...