Acts 1:5

Acts 1:5 “for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” 

Why didn’t this baptism of the Holy Spirit come immediately, were there any requirements for this baptism to happen?   

  John 7:37-39 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “if anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” But this he spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

 

  It would appear from these verses in John that some prerequisites were that they were to be thirsty for the Spirit, in yesterday’s IBS we saw that they were to obey Jesus commandments, they were to wait in Jerusalem, and Jesus had to first be glorified.

Application-I will pray for the baptism of the Holy Spirit, waiting on God’s timing for it to happen.