He Who Has Suffered In The Flesh Has Ceased From Sin

1Pe 4:1 NASB - Therefore, since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose, because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,  ASV  Forasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with the same mind; for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;

1Pe 4:6 NASB - For the gospel has for this purpose been preached even to those who are dead, that though they are judged in the flesh as men, they may live in the spirit according to the will of God.  The word Gospel  Greek: euangelion  The good news,     of the basic facts of the death, burial and resurrection of Christ, e.g., 1Cr 15:1-3;

  Luk 4:18 ASV - The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor: He hath sent me to proclaim release to the captives, And recovering of sight to the blind, To set at liberty them that are bruised,  Everything in this verse is spiritual it must be seen by the spirit of God .        Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
It says poor in SPIRIT , Until Jesus came there was the Law and he came to deliver mankind from the curse of that law,  Rom 8:2 ASV - For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.  Friends this is Good news indeed ,we do not have to sin any longer sin has no Hold on you that are in Christ Jesus.  Now to you who are under the blood and your confession is Christ the Lord,  any willful sin in your live now is deliberate .   People that have not the revelation to this needs to be set free, They believe another gospel.  We are save by grace a Gift of Faith and grace in the Greek is benefits . Gods promises are for the obedient Not the disobedient .     Rom 9:30 ASV - What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who followed not after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:
Rom 9:31 ASV - but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law.
Rom 9:32 ASV - Wherefore? Because they sought it not by FAITH, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;
Hbr 4:2 ASV - For indeed we have had good tidings preached unto us, even as also they: but the word of hearing did not profit them, because it was not united by faith with them that hear



When James is speaking of his works by faith he is not saying to feed the poor and cloth the destitute . What people to day call a ministry in itself.   That comes through obedience to Gods word you give because you love the Lord. But this faith he is speaking of  faith to put this carnal man to death to walk in righteousness and be separated unto God .This faith is believing God for all things.  Rom12 :1-2     Its not doing the works for God it is LIVING the very works of Christ in your daily walk .  Not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to his Mercy he has Saved us.  It says above the children had good tidings preached to them just as we have.   Assimilate =      They did not take in the word to digest and transform it into living and active the whole word of God.     Col 2:6 ASV - As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him,   Jhn 5:38 ASV - And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he sent, him ye believe not.   Jesus said he saw no fruit in thoses that believed not because the word was not abiding in them.      Rom 12:2 ASV - And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, and ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.  Transformed in the         Greek: metamorphoo

Transfigure:
of believers, Rom 12:2, "be ye transformed," the obligation being to undergo a complete change which, under the power of God, will find expression in character and conduct; morphe lays stress on the inward change, schema (see the preceding verb in that verse, suschematizo) lays stress on the outward (see FASHION, No. 3, FORM, No. 2); the present continuous tenses indicate a process; 2Cr 3:18 describes believers as being "transformed (RV) into the same image" (i.e., of Christ in all His moral excellencies), the change being effected by the Holy Spirit.   metamorphosis from a worm like Job to a beautiful Butterfly , a heavenly body.

Hbr 4:12 ASV - For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart. This word is living and active it is the breath or Zoe of God .
Rom 3:3 ASV - For what if some were without faith? shall their want of faith make of none effect the faithfulness of God?
Rom 3:4 ASV - God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment.

Luk 3:16 ASV - John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but there cometh he that is mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in fire:
We know that the spirit of God is his promise of power to over come in this world. But it says also with Fire in the  Greek: pur      of the holiness of God, which consumes all that is inconsistent therewith, Hbr 10:27; 12:29; cp. Rev 1:14; 2:18; 10:1; 15:2; 19:12; similarly of the holy angels as His ministers, Hbr 1:7; in Rev 3:18 it is symbolic of that which tries the faith of saints, producing what will glorify the Lord;

1Pe 4:1 ASV - Forasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with the same mind; for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
1Pe 4:2 ASV - that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

For he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin.  This is a very important truth to see
This is parallel  to Roms 12:1-2  Rom 12:1 ASV - I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
Rom 12:2 ASV - And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, and ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
The spiritual side of this truth is when the priest sacrificed the animals they would then burn the bodies out side the camp . And also in the sacrifice they would burn portions of the flesh for the sacrifice being made.   The father loved the smell of burning flesh , now it is a type and shadow of the fulfilling of Gods kingdom , remember the Lord sees the beginning from the end.   Jesus said that Moses and the prophets wrote of me . And Jesus fulfilled the Old law with his coming he is the fulfilling of the Law.     Rom 8:13 ASV - for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.  This is the power to overcome our flesh,
the power of the Holy Ghost living in us abiding in us , but if BY THE SPIRIT  ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live. Do you see what it says we war with our flesh by the spirit of God in us.   Jesus said you must be born again ,     Jhn 3:3 ASV - Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Jhn 3:4 ASV - Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
Jhn 3:5 ASV - Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God!
Jhn 3:6 ASV - That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Born of the water ?    and the water is the word of God washing our souls daily renewing our hearts and bring us into the image of Christ,  and the spirit we are born again with is the power of God abiding with us and in us.     Jhn 16:13 ASV - Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he shall guide you into all the truth: for he shall not speak from himself; but what things soever he shall hear, these shall he speak: and he shall declare unto you the things that are to come.


Exd 29:18 ASV - And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a burnt-offering unto Jehovah; it is a sweet savor, an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.
Exd 29:25 ASV - And thou shalt take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar upon the burnt-offering, for a sweet savor before Jehovah: it is an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.
There is an altar for us an altar to burn away this carnal man the nature of our flesh . The cross is our altar ,   For he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin .  When you began to see the separation of yourself from the world , the desires of the flesh have no hold on you any longer
Putting to death this nature of sin and death. Seeing we have a city not made with hands, Jesus said my kingdom is not of this earth . Rev 21:1 ASV - And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more.

 Rom 8:13 ASV - for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Rom 8:2 ASV - For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
Rom 8:3 ASV - For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Rom 8:4 ASV - that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
When trials and suffering comes our way we must see that it is a work of the fire that comes with the promise.    Mat 3:11 ASV - I indeed baptize you in 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 in the Holy Spirit and in FIRE:   The fire here is a purger of our souls it cleanses us of all defilement , Godly sorrow works unto repenteance,  Jam 1:2 ASV - Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations;
Jam 1:3 ASV - Knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience.
Jam 1:4 ASV - And let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.
Jam 1:5 ASV - But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
We my friend are coming to the end of this age we are the last generation      Mat 1:17 ASV - So all the generations from Abraham unto David are fourteen generations; and from David unto the carrying away to Babylon fourteen generations; and from the carrying away to Babylon unto the Christ fourteen generations. Fourteen in the bible numeric's is Deliverance and Salvation .


 A daily prayer

My body is a temple for the Holy Spirit.
Redeemed, cleansed and sanctified by the blood of Jesus
My members, the parts of my body are instruments of righteousness
yielded to God for His service and for His Glory
The devil has no place in me
No power over me
No unsettled claims against me
All has been settled by the blood of Jesus
I overcome satan by the blood of the Lamb and by the word
of my testimony.
And I love not my life unto the death
My body is for the Lord
And the Lord is for my body  Amen.

1Cr 15:56 ASV - The sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:


1Pe 4:7 NASB - The end of all things is near; therefore, be of sound judgment and sober spirit for the purpose of prayer.

1Pe 4:8 NASB - Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.

1Pe 4:10 NASB - As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

I believe it is important for me to add these verses , the word of God is true, absolute truth. And I am a man born of the flesh with all the frailties of the flesh, I am in this walk just as you and I want to say it is a daily walk and with out Gods grace I would not have this hope or Joy to write and share . I have not arrived by no means,  and in great need of his fellowship and love as many others , it is his body that will see him, his church his elect.  I am reminded of a verse   Eph 3:10 ASV - to the intent that now unto the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places might be made known through the church the manifold wisdom of God,  Manifold Wisdom , Eph 4:8 ASV - Wherefore he saith, When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, And gave gifts unto men.
Eph 4:11 ASV - And he gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;   This is Gods plan for the church today, ministry of the gifts through the body of believers not one man but the whole body of believers .   And if we obey this word it will in the end perfect us into the image of Christ .  Every one in the family of God has a place in this ministry and work.
Eph 4:12 ASV - for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:
Eph 4:13 ASV - till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:  Measure in the  Greek: metron   
of "a vessel," figuratively, Mat 23:32; Luk 6:38 (twice); in Jhn 3:34, with the preposition ek, "(He giveth not the Spirit) by measure," RV (which is a necessary correction; the italicized words "unto him," AV, detract from the meaning). Not only had Christ the Holy Spirit without "measure," but God so gives the Spirit through Him to others. It is the ascended Christ who gives the Spirit to those who receive His testimony and set their seal to this, that God is true. The Holy Spirit is imparted neither by degrees, nor in portions, as if He were merely an influence, He is bestowed personally upon each believer, at the time of the New Birth ,   the standard of spiritual stature being the fullness which is essentially Christ's; Eph 4:16, "(according to the working in due) measure (of each several part)," i.e., according to the effectual working of the ministration rendered in due "measure" by every part.
 Eph 3:11 ASV - according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
 1Cr 15:49 KJV - And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
 1Jo 1:7 ASV - but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
1Jo 1:8 ASV - If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1Jo 1:9 ASV - If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1Jo 1:10 ASV - If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.