Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
1Forasmuch then
as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise
with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased
from sin; 2That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the
flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. I Peter 4
Suffering
in the flesh, means controlling the flesh. Refusing to allow your own
flesh to speak certain things. Refusing to allow your own flesh to do
certain things. This refusal to allow the flesh to do that which it
desires is to "cease from sin".
God taught me this
concept with the following experience. It was the time of the
Presidential elections in the United States. I was visiting with
neighbors and the subject came up of the elections. I started to make a
comment and then I caught myself and stopped. If I made that comment
it would put fuel on a fire and that would not lead to good things. But I really wanted to make that comment. I
almost had to put my had over my mouth to keep from speaking. I did
not speak. But my flesh really suffered because it wanted to speak.
This is what it means to "suffer in the flesh".
Works of the flesh ...
Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance (debating, arguing), emulations (striving to be better than others),
wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21Envyings, murders, drunkenness,
revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have
also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not
inherit the kingdom of God. Gal. 5
The flesh wants to do the above things. When we hold the flesh back and refuse to allow it to do these things, we "suffer in the flesh."
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