Part 8 - THE THIRD TEMPLE - "The Seed of the Serpent"
- (primary) Matthew 13:36–39
- (secondary) Matthew 13:1–9
- (secondary) Matthew 13:18–23
- (secondary) John 6:35
- (secondary) Genesis 2:7
- (secondary) Romans 5:10
- (secondary) Mark 7:13
- (secondary) 1 John 2:18–22
- (secondary) Revelation 22:1–5
- (secondary) Matthew 6:34
- (secondary) Psalm 50:10
- (secondary) Galatians 5:16–26
- (secondary) 2 Kings 6:17
- (secondary) Revelation 12:15–16
- (secondary) John 7:38
- (secondary) Psalm 46:4
- (secondary) John 10:10
- (secondary) 1 Peter 4:8
- (secondary) Proverbs 25:2
- (secondary) 1 Corinthians 6:1–3
- (secondary) Galatians 6:1
- (secondary) Nehemiah 8:10
- (secondary) Proverbs 16:7
- (secondary) Matthew 24:13
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Summary
Part 8 of “The Third Temple” begins with Jesus' parables in Matthew 13. After reading the parable of the sower, the speaker emphasizes Jesus' later explanation that the good seed consists of the children of the Kingdom, the tares are the children of the wicked one, and the enemy sowing them is the devil. This becomes the foundation for the sermon, “The Seed of the Serpent.” The speaker portrays the mind as a garden continually receiving competing “seeds.” Thoughts associated with carnality, fear, hatred, offense, gossip, envy, and destructive behavior are contrasted with thoughts and conduct produced by the Spirit. Galatians 5:16–26 becomes the major practical application: walking in the Spirit should produce a consistent harvest of love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance. Revelation 22:1–5 then connects this seed-and-fruit teaching to the Third Temple series. The speaker interprets the river flowing from God's throne, the Tree of Life, its recurring fruit, and the healing of the nations as spiritual imagery for an end-time people. He teaches that those comprising the Third Temple must produce a pure, life-giving spiritual “river,” which he associates with their words, character, and ministry to others. The sermon therefore moves from seed → garden → fruit → river → healing, presenting personal character as the visible evidence of which spiritual seed has been cultivated.
Core doctrine
Matthew 13:36 - 39 - The speaker teaches that Jesus' identification of the good seed as the children of the Kingdom and the tares as the children of the wicked one reveals two competing spiritual "seeds," and that a person's true spiritual parentage is untimately revealed by the character and fruit produced in the "Garden of the Mind; He connects this to his "Third-Temple" doctrine by teaching that those who walk in the spirit must become a consistent, life-giving river of spiritual fruit to the world.
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