When Is a Person Seed of God- Before or After Being Born Again?
1) Direct Answer
Before. A person is seed of God by God’s choosing before the new birth; the new birth is when that seed is quickened, manifested, and brought to life by the Spirit through the Word.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- Ephesians 1:4–5: Chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world and predestined unto adoption. That shows sonship in God’s purpose before time, and the new birth brings it into experience.
- John 10:26–27: “You believe not, because you are not of my sheep… My sheep hear my voice.” Notice, they are sheep first; hearing and following proves what they already are.
- Galatians 4:6: “Because you are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts.” The Spirit comes because of sonship—showing seed precedes quickening.
- 1 Peter 1:23: “Being born again… by the word of God.” The incorruptible seed is the Word; the Spirit quickens that seed to life.
- 1 John 3:9: “His seed remaineth in him.” The life comes forth because His seed is there.
- Romans 8:29–30: Whom He foreknew, He predestinated, called, justified, glorified. The call and justification unfold what God purposed beforehand.
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
Now notice the order God shows: seed first—life next. A seed lying in the ground is still a seed before it springs up. The season does not create the seed; it quickens it. So the new birth does not make you a son in God’s mind; it reveals and manifests that you are one, by bringing that predestined seed to repentance, faith in Christ, and a Spirit-filled walk. Without a seed, there is nothing to quicken; with the seed present, the Word and the Spirit will call it to life in God’s time.
Short Reinforcing Statement
You see, the sheep were always His in God’s foreknowledge. The new birth is that moment when the Shepherd’s voice strikes the seed, and life comes forth.
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Why I'm against organized religion
62-1111E §52
"Oh, it doesn't exactly mean that." When a man says that, get away from him. God watches over His Word, you know, the Bible said. It's wrote just the way it should be, see. Now, it's put in such a way to deceive, or to make the wise stumble over it. It's so simple, that's the reason they stumble over it, see. All right. All this wisdom and things that they can accumulate, yet, but it is from ... that birth is from beneath, this earth. It's from the earth, and it is against the Spirit of God. The first birth, to mak...
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever
58-0312 §4
We preach the Gospel. We believe first that a man must be born again. "Ye must be born again." And then, if he's not born again, then he can not understand the kingdom of God. Jesus told Nicodemus that. "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom." The word see there is the English translation, which really means "cannot understand the kingdom of God," until he's born again.
Believest thou this?
50-0115 §22
But Jesus, when He was borned, He was borned with that mark of being illegitimate child, that his father was Joseph. And that he was a born, in other words, a bastard child, born by a father which... by a mother that was... He was conceived before that they were married. And I say that that's wrong, because God was His Father. And He was borned of a virgin birth. Then we find out, that His coming on the earth, before He got here, He was announced to be here. And God always... Now, if I get some doctrine in this, yo...
We have seen His star and have come to worship Him
63-1216 §14
Now, but, He was perhaps born in April or May, one. When, He was a lamb, and every other thing proved He would be a lamb. That's the reason He was born in a manger, in a barn, and not in a house; because lambs are borned outside in the barns, in straw and stuff, and not in the house. When He was taken to the crucifixion, He was led away. You remember, you lead the sheep. We go to the slaughter house down here, they got a goat or something that leads the sheep; the sheep won't go hisself, he's got to be led. In ever...
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 3:E-98
Notice what God said to them in the garden. Genesis 3:15, "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her Seed, It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise His heel." If we give credit to the Word that the woman did have a Seed, then the serpent must have surely had a seed also. If the Seed of the woman was a man-child apart from the man, then the seed of the serpent will have to be in the same pattern, and that is another male must be born apart from human male instrumentality....