diff --git a/lib/internal/main/embedding.js b/lib/internal/main/embedding.js
index e547e77e9090df..93aa8bb38a06a6 100644
--- a/lib/internal/main/embedding.js
+++ b/lib/internal/main/embedding.js
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ const { codes: {
 prepareMainThreadExecution(false, true);
 
 const isLoadingSea = isSea();
+const isBuiltinWarningNeeded = isLoadingSea && isExperimentalSeaWarningNeeded();
 if (isExperimentalSeaWarningNeeded()) {
   emitExperimentalWarning('Single executable application');
 }
@@ -98,7 +99,7 @@ let warnedAboutBuiltins = false;
 function embedderRequire(id) {
   const normalizedId = normalizeRequirableId(id);
   if (!normalizedId) {
-    if (isLoadingSea && !warnedAboutBuiltins) {
+    if (isBuiltinWarningNeeded && !warnedAboutBuiltins) {
       emitWarningSync(
         'Currently the require() provided to the main script embedded into ' +
         'single-executable applications only supports loading built-in modules.\n' +
diff --git a/test/fixtures/sea.js b/test/fixtures/sea.js
index 6dea6960997feb..65bb8d37e019a2 100644
--- a/test/fixtures/sea.js
+++ b/test/fixtures/sea.js
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ const builtinWarning =
 To load a module from disk after the single executable application is launched, use require("module").createRequire().
 Support for bundled module loading or virtual file systems are under discussions in https://github.com/nodejs/single-executable`;
 
-expectWarning('Warning', builtinWarning);  // Triggered by require() calls below.
 // This additionally makes sure that no unexpected warnings are emitted.
 if (!createdRequire('./sea-config.json').disableExperimentalSEAWarning) {
+  expectWarning('Warning', builtinWarning); // Triggered by require() calls below.
   expectWarning('ExperimentalWarning',
                 'Single executable application is an experimental feature and ' +
                 'might change at any time');