Title: The Promise
Speaker: Pastor Phillip Rowley
Date: 28th June 2026
Location: Bunbury, Australia
Summary:
“The promise is unto you, to your children, and to all that are afar off.” That single line ties together a thread that runs from Moses to the earliest followers of Jesus, and this episode follows it all the way through.
The episode traces one specific promise God made to his people, the promise of the Holy Spirit, right through the Old and New Testaments. Starting with Jesus telling his followers to wait in Jerusalem for “the promise of the father,” the episode goes back through Deuteronomy, Isaiah and Jeremiah to show this wasn’t a new idea. It had been building for over a thousand years, hinted at through the prophets long before Jesus was born.
From there it moves through the birth of Jesus, his own reading of Isaiah in the synagogue, and finally to the day of Pentecost when the promise was poured out and people were filled with the Holy Spirit. The episode ties this history to something personal: how ordinary people today can be part of the same promise through repentance, faith and a life led by the Spirit rather than by willpower alone.
Key Points:
- The promise of the Holy Spirit was foretold by prophets like Moses, Isaiah and Jeremiah, long before Jesus arrived.
- Jesus connected his own ministry directly to these Old Testament promises, showing they were being fulfilled in real time.
- The day of Pentecost marks the moment the promise was poured out, and the same promise is available to anyone today through repentance and faith.
Reference Scriptures:
- Acts 1:4-8
- Deuteronomy 18:15-19
- Isaiah 11:1-5
- Luke 2:7-20
- Luke 4:16-21
- Jeremiah 31:31-34
- Isaiah 28:9-10
- Matthew 3:1-12
- 1 Corinthians 6:9-11
- Romans 8:1-16
- Acts 2:1-39
- Matthew 13:16-17
- Hebrews 11:1, 33-40
- 1 Peter 1:9-20