In the Sermon on the Mount he emphasizes his Father’s provision for us by asking rhetorically, “Aren’t you better than birds?” But in Matthew 10 he is teaching about freedom from fear of physical death: “Do not fear those who kill the body,” he says, “but are unable to kill the soul.” Of course physical death only concerns the treasures that are “upon the earth.” For most people, perhaps, the thing they most treasure is staying alive on earth. As a result they live their entire lives in bondage to fear of physical death (Heb. 2:15).
