Promise of Holy Spirit

OT promises of the Holy Spirit fulfilled in the OT

The promised Spirit enables prophecy

1 Samuel 10:6 KJV 1900

And the Spirit of the Lord will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man.

See also 1 Sa 10:10

The Spirit fulfils the promised presence of the Lord

Exodus 33:14 KJV 1900

And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.

See also Is 63:11; Is 63:14; Hag 2:5

OT promises of the Holy Spirit fulfilled in the NT

The Spirit implements the promised new covenant

Jeremiah 31:33–34 KJV 1900

But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, And write it in their hearts; And will be their God, And they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: For they shall all know me, From the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: For I will forgive their iniquity, And I will remember their sin no more.

See also Ro 8:2; Ro 8:9–10; 2 Co 3:3; 2 Co 3:6; Heb 8:10–11

The promised Spirit will renew Israel

Ezekiel 36:26–27 KJV 1900

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

See also Eze 11:19; Eze 37:14

The promised Spirit is the guarantee for Israel’s future

Isaiah 44:3 KJV 1900

For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, And floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, And my blessing upon thine offspring:

See also Is 32:15; Is 59:21; Eze 39:29

The promised Spirit will empower the life and work of the Messiah

Isaiah 61:1–2 KJV 1900

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; Because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; He hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to them that are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, And the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all that mourn;

See also Is 11:2; Lk 4:18–19

The Spirit is promised for all people

Joel 2:28–29 KJV 1900

And it shall come to pass afterward, That I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your old men shall dream dreams, Your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids In those days will I pour out my spirit.

See also Ac 2:17–18

Promises of the Holy Spirit in the NT

The promise that Jesus Christ would baptise with the Spirit

Matthew 3:11 KJV 1900

I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:

See also Jn 1:33; Ac 1:5; Ac 11:16

The Spirit is promised by Jesus Christ

Luke 24:49 KJV 1900

And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.

See also Jn 15:26; Jn 16:7–15; Ac 1:5–8

The Spirit is promised for the time after Jesus Christ’s resurrection and ascension

John 7:39 KJV 1900

(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)

See also Ac 2:4; Ac 2:33

The promised Spirit fulfils God’s word to Abraham

Galatians 3:14 KJV 1900

That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

The promised Spirit guarantees to believers their future inheritance

Ephesians 1:13–14 KJV 1900

In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.