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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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.
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 7:E-103
In concluding this subject for this time, let me refer to a statement made at its beginning wherein I said that not one Scripture spoke of the Lord PRESENTLY compiling a record of names. That is indeed so. However there is a Scripture pointing a future compilation. It is in the eighty-seventh Psalm. This Psalm speaks of the Lord writing up the names of all those born in Zion. On no account can it be presumed that God has to wait until the end of ages or that period of time dealing with Zion in order to know who all...
God in His people
50-0227 §30
The Bible said, "Gifts and callings are without repentance." You're born with these things. You believe in foreordination? For everybody? But things are foreordained of God. Jesus Christ was foreordained to be the Son of God at the garden of Eden. You believe that? "Thy seed shall bruise the serpent's head." Moses was ordained of God, foreordained. When he was born, he was found a proper child. Is that right? True. And notice, I believe John the Baptist, seven hundred and twelve years before he was born, he was the...
Sirs, we would see Jesus
61-1224 §86
Oh, one of them say, "He was born right here. We got a church built over it." Other one said, "He was born over here." Like... You know how many nails they got, can prove it, original nails that was in the cross? Nineteen---each fellow holding a nail. "This, we got it. Hallelujah, we got it." They just got some dead bones of some... "We got it, we got it. This is the place He was born." Others say, "This is the place He was born." They say, "This is the place He was born." What difference does it make? Here's where...
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 7:E-89
It is the second resurrection that the "souls under the altar" as set forth in the fifth seal (Revelation 6:9-11) are given white robes, and of course eternal life, or there would be no point of white robes. "And when He had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the Word of God, and for the testimony which they held: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost Thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And whi...
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 4:E-96
Oh, how striking it is. Jehovah, born crying over a manure pile. Jehovah born in a manger of straw. There is your everlasting sign to the proud and puffed up, pseudo-intellectuals that have evolved their own theology and denied the truth of God. Jehovah God, a crying baby in a stinking barn. Then we think we have a right to be proud, holding up our noses, criticizing and acting as though we were somebody. Here's your real sign. This is the right one. Jehovah, playing as a boy. Jehovah working in a carpenter's shop....