Matthew 10:27-31
New International Version (NIV)
27 What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the roofs. 28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. 29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care. 30 And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. 31 So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
Jesus gives us instruction:
The first instruction is to spread the word of God, Speaking it in daylight, Proclaiming from the roofs. 27 What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the roofs.
The great commission:
Matthew 28:16-20 (NIV)
16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Jesus says whom to be Afraid of and for what:
28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Jesus gives us the instruction as to whom we should be afraid of - It is God. And he only has the power.
Jesus analogy of sparrows:
As Jesus was instructing, encouraging and emphasising - He also gives us an assurance of how much he cares and Love for us by comparing our life itself with that of the sparrow's life. A Sparrow's life is worth of something, here in the analogy Jesus questions us 29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Jesus asks us this question to make us know of what a sparrow is worth about and then says Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care. And then comes to our physical care, the hairs of our head. That which we care least about to number, but God says 30 And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. The finally reassures us that we are not to be afraid, and then also says about our worthiness.31 So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
Even when God says - Jeremiah 32:27 NIV
"I am the LORD, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?
Or when Isaiah says about God's act in - Isaiah 59:1 NIV
Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear.
God with his word and prophets and in many instances and in many ways has encouraged who had no hope, he has been there all along when saints like John, Joseph, Paul... etc who were going through such pain, loneliness and sufferings in prison and in many other instances they had to be afraid of, but yet God was with them and enabled them to overcome all such fears and they were never afraid. One of the most important aspect in our life that keeps us holding us from achieving or being our best for God is fear. Jesus always enables us with his confidence that he had with the Heavenly Father, Jesus also enables us to know how important we are in Father's hand. We also need to be sure that God will act on the right time and never leave us alone to fear and be afraid of things that makes no effect on our soul, that which God calls us to keep holy and to seek his kingdom.
The lesson that Jesus teaches us from this analogy is that we are not to be afraid of what man can do.We need to have such courage as like God's people had, proclaiming greatly as like David.
Psalm 118:6 (KJV)
6 The Lord is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?
as like John - 1 John 4:4
New International Version (NIV)
4 You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
The fact that Jesus took Sparrows and the hair of our head is that, as Jesus says Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care.The Father's care is so much that we don't have to be afraid of anything, our only concern should be to be afraid of God, God alone and to know how much he cares for us.
2 Corinthians 10:4-5
New International Version (NIV)
4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
New International Version (NIV)
7 Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.
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