🎄 Devotional Series: Sin (Old Adam) Is the Reason for the Season

 

Part 1 — The First Promise of Christmas

 

Genesis 3:15
“And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her Seed;
He shall bruise your head,
And you shall bruise His heel.”

 

Context & Connection

 

Christmas doesn’t begin in Bethlehem.
It begins in the Garden of Eden.

 

Genesis 3:15 is the first prophecy in Scripture — and the first whisper of the gospel. Immediately after the Fall, when darkness entered the human story, God Himself stepped into the devastation and spoke a promise.

 

This verse is often called the Protoevangelium — “the first gospel.”
No nativity scene yet.
No shepherds, no wise men, no star.
Just a broken man, a broken woman, a serpent… and a promise.

 

A promise that One would come to destroy the serpent’s work.
A promise that God Himself would send a Redeemer.
A promise that the story wouldn’t end in death.

 

We read this with the full light of Scripture — we know this is speaking of Christ, born of a woman, the promised Seed who would one day crush the serpent’s head.

 

Christmas begins here.

 

Devotional Insight

 

1. “I will put enmity…”

 

The battle we feel inside us — the battle between sin and righteousness — goes all the way back to this moment.

Humanity now lives in a world at war.
A spiritual war.
A real war.
A war God Himself declared.

 

2. “…between your seed and her Seed.”

 

This is the only place in the Bible where “her Seed” is used — a direct prophecy of the virgin birth.
 

Jesus would not come through the seed of man.
He would be born of a woman by the power of the Holy Spirit.
His birth bypassed Adam’s fallen line.

Already, the Christmas story is emerging from the ashes of Eden.

 

3. “He shall bruise your head…”

 

A crushed head means a death blow.
This is the work Christ accomplished at the cross — defeating Satan, sin, and death itself.

 

4. “…and you shall bruise His heel.”

 

A bruise to the heel is painful — but not final.
The cross was real.
The suffering was real.
But the serpent’s strike was temporary.
Christ’s resurrection sealed the victory forever.

 

Encouragement for Today

 

As we enter the Christmas season, remember this foundational truth:

 

Christmas is not sentimental — it is supernatural.
It is God entering the story because sin entered the world.
It is God keeping His promise from Eden to Bethlehem to Calvary.

 

The baby in the manger was born to be the Seed who would crush the serpent’s head.
He was born to undo Adam’s curse.
He was born for you.

 

Sin (Old Adam) is indeed the reason for the season —
but Christ is the reason we have hope, joy, and eternal life.

 

Reading Plan

 

• Romans 5:12–19 — Adam’s sin vs. Christ’s righteousness
• Galatians 4:4 — “When the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son…”
• 1 John 3:8 — The Son of God appeared “to destroy the works of the devil.”

 

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