Burgeon means sprout, flourish, bloom.
The old life is fine, the new life sprouts!
The old life is fine for many Christians and it includes all religious obligations. Many live in the same way they lived before. If they were Catholics they use to confess the sins to the priest and the next time they would confess the same sins.
Many Pentecostals are in the same way! Adventists! And many others! Many are always struggling with the old life while trying to live the new one, as if the new life would be lived by their own endeavor.
They act like this! I have to pray! To read the bible! To come to church every day! If I go to church every day I will be more holy, I will sin less, and so forth.
There are Christians that if they missed a Sunday service they feel so guilty for the rest of the week!
The old life was a cycle: sinning, asking forgiveness, then sinning with the same sins, then asking forgiveness. And then after they became Christians they sin, feel guilty, then go to the "altar at the church" to ask for prayer, then sin again! What a miserable life!
Jesus wants to set you free from this cycle!
Burgeon means sprout, flourish, bloom.
The old life IS GONE, the new life sprouts!
You don't have to make any effort to bear fruits of righteousness in the same way a mango tree doesn't sweat to bear mangos!
Dr. Salum,
You were just describing my life. I was raised to be in church as often as the doors of the church were open. If my family and I were on vacation camping, I would make everyone get around the campfire and we would have our service. The guilt would be unbearable. So great to be free and getting freer every day. Amen
Dr. Taylor
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