Sermon for Jubilate, the Fourth Sunday of Easter, AD 2025

We cannot separate the curse of the woman in childbearing from the promise that comes from her seed. When God cursed the serpent, He also said “I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.” Although the woman would have pain in childbearing there was a promise even more than just the joy of a new human being come into the world. One of those who would be born of the woman would defeat Satan, crush the serpent’s head. The woman participates in this first gospel that by her work, the Savior would come who delivers us from the kingdom of the enemy with a marvelous victory.