HEB 2:14-15 "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil."

Of necessity, the Lord Jesus had to be a human being with a body and a soul to be able to be our substitute. He came in His state of perfection to destroy the one who had the power of death. In other words, it was the power of sin that had to be broken. It was the power of death, hell, and the grave that was broken by the fact that Jesus took upon Himself our human nature so He could become our substitute.

Christ's sacrifice was to deliver us from our anxiety over death. Think of the anxiety there is over death! If we were brought into this life with eternal destruction as our only expectation, then think of the anxiety we would have over the evil day when our life would cease.

See what we read in HEB 2:15, "And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage." Think of the bondage the fear of death would bring to you and me if we didn't have hope for eternity. Think of the anxiety we would suffer if we had no consolation in the Lord Jesus Christ, if we had no hope that He had taken upon Himself our human nature, our flesh and blood, and paid for our sins.

You see why Scripture says, "For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's," 1CO 6:20. He came not only to purchase our soul, but also our body, with His life, to break the power of death that we might have the fear of death broken. We no longer need to suffer a lifetime of bondage to the fear of death. The Lord has removed that for His people.

Jesus said, "Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?"

Then He points to the birds flying overhead and says, "Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?" MAT 6:26. He preached His Sermon on the Mount out in the open fields, using the birds to reason with our logic. He tells us that if He has such care for them, we should recognize the obvious, "Are ye not much better than they?"