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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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...
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 9:E-44
But now He is standing in the midst of the Church. As He stands there revealing Who He is in this last age, He calls Himself the "Author of the creation of God". This is ANOTHER CREATION. This has to do with the church. This is a special designation of Himself. He is the CREATOR of that church. The heavenly Bridegroom created his own bride. As the Spirit of God, He came down and created in the virgin Mary the cells from which His body was born. I want to repeat that. He created the very cells in the womb of Mary fo...
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...
The Law having a shadow
56-0621 §55
...s condemned already." You don't have to do anything; you're condemned already. Now, drinking, committing adultery, and that, that's not sin. You do that because you're an unbeliever. You're an unbeliever to begin with. That's the reason you do those things. Now, if you once get right with Christ, those things will just ... they're circumcised at the altar. When you confess it, God just takes it away, and puts the life of Himself in you. And then you're in Christ and you can't come to judgment. Jesus said in Saint J...
Hebrews, Chapter 7, part 2
57-0922 §47
You'll appreciate that, you'll love it (if you're a real Christian) to a place that sin would haunt you till you couldn't do it. "For the seed of God remains in him, and he cannot sin." The Bible said, "Once purged by the blood of Jesus, has no more desire of sin." If you have a desire, your heart's not right with God. Now, you will do wrong, but you don't do it willfully. See, you're trapped, and anything you're trapped into (or do something that you don't mean to do it), it's not sin yet, you'll repent the minute...