Historic Sermons
A podcast where historic Christian sermons are brought back to life through clear, modern audio readings. Each sermon is read directly from original documents by Matthew Fisher, including Victorian Anglo-Catholic mission sermons, urban slum preaching, evangelical devotional texts, and rare parish addresses.
These are primary sources—experienced as they would have sounded when first delivered
Historic Sermons
George Whitefield: The Seed of the Woman Genesis 3:15
George Whitefield — the famous Calvinistic Methodist preacher of the Evangelical Revival — takes us back to Genesis 3:15: the first promise of a Saviour, spoken in the shadow of the Fall, before the Bible has even left Eden.
In this sermon, Whitefield traces the “enmity” God places between the serpent and the woman, and between their two seeds — and he unfolds what that conflict means in Scripture, in the life of Christ, in the history of the Church, and in the interior struggle of every believer. It’s an argument for grace as a gift (not a bargain), for Christ as the true Seed who bruises the serpent’s head, and for endurance when the bruising still reaches the heel.
🎙️ Audio credit: Tim — who regularly appears on Empire of the Son — has recorded this reading directly from the original sermon text.
If you want theology that feels like spiritual weather — sin, mercy, conflict, promise, perseverance — this is one of Whitefield’s classic sermons at full length.