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One New Man

May 24, 2026    Dana Bailey

We discover something extraordinary about our identity as believers: we are part of the 'one new man' that God has created by joining Jewish believers and Gentile believers together in Christ. This isn't about either group losing their identity, but about something entirely new being formed through the power of the Holy Spirit. The message takes us on a journey from the giving of the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, showing us that these aren't separate events but beautifully connected moments in God's redemptive plan. We learn that on the original Shavuot, 3,000 died under the law written on stone, but on Pentecost, 3,000 were saved as the Spirit wrote God's law on hearts of flesh. The symbolism is profound: two loaves of leavened bread presented together represent us—imperfect people, both Jew and Gentile, accepted by God not through our own merit but through Christ's finished work. We're reminded that Pentecost isn't just a historical memory but our spiritual birthday, the moment when ordinary people filled with extraordinary power changed the world. This truth calls us to embrace our heritage, understand our roots in the faith, and recognize that the same Holy Spirit who fell in Jerusalem, and later in Saskatchewan during the 1948 revival, is available to us today. We're challenged to come together in unity, to fast and pray with expectation, and to believe that God can do through twelve ordinary people what He did 2,000 years ago—and perhaps even more.