This relationship between faith and fact may be why Jesus had more to say about truth than he did about trust. He said that authentic worship had to be based on truth. He taught that walking in truth was the secret of genuine freedom from sin’s enslaving power. He wanted his followers to be sanctified in truth through God’s Word, which he said was the truth. He promised that everyone who valued truth would hear his voice. Indeed, Jesus was so filled with truth himself, he personally identified himself with it: “I am . . . the truth.”7
