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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God's covenant with Abraham and his seed
56-0223 §28
Now, Abraham, being an alien, alienated from God like all we sinners. Alienated from God, without hope, without Christ, in the world, sinners by nature. All of us was born in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies without one exception. Your father and mother might have been so sainted until they never said a bad word, kept all the laws, went to church, sanctified, holy, and filled with the Holy Spirit, all that God would have for him. And yet you are born in sin. Everyone that comes to God is bor...
Ye must be born again
58-0619B §12
As an old colored man was saying not long ago for me in a convention ... or, meeting, and he said, something another, said, "I talked it over with the Lord a long time ago. And I told Him if there's anything wrong with me, let me get it right now because I don't want no trouble at the river." I think that well expresses what I'm trying to say, "Let's talk it over now so we won't have no trouble at the river, because you can't backtrack then, see. Let's be more sure right now." And so when Jesus said to this great r...
Expectancy
53-1108E §17
Let's look down along the line, now, with a mental vision. I see standing along the line, rich women with babies with little lace handwork garments, holding a lamb, a rich baby's offering. Way down along the line, I see a little girl about eighteen years old with a veil over her face, poorly dressed, holding something in her hand, not in fine needle work, but in swaddling cloth. Swaddling cloth is what they take off the back of the yolk of an ox. When it's plowing, it'd rub it's shoulders, they put cloth on there....
The falling apart of the world
62-1216 §35
Now, really, Christmas, Christ, I believe and almost can prove... Like the resurrection can be proved by looking at the creator, how that He created all this botany life, and how everything serving His purpose must die, and, if it dies, it lives again 'cause it's got perpetual life. But the only way it can live again, is a germitized seed, see. Now, God expresses Himself in that creation, and it shows that all these pagan gods and things we have are not right. See, they're just philosophy and imaginations. But the...
Marriage and Divorce
65-0221M §74
Now we find out death was caused ... death is the cause of sin of the woman, come through the woman and not the man. By her way of living her life, and by her, all death comes. Her way of giving life is death. How many knows that? Job 14, if you want to put down the Scripture. If you question this, I got scriptures wrote down for every bit of this. You want to read Job 14 now. It says, "Man that is borned of woman is of a few days and full of trouble." Is that right? "He cometh up like the flower, he's cut down and...