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    The obvious impossibility of carrying out such a moral program should make it plain that no one can sustain a relationship with God that way. The person who lives in right relationship with God does it by embracing what God arranges for him. Doing things for God is the opposite of entering into what God does for you. Habakkuk had it right: “The person who believes God, is set right by God—and that’s the real life.” Rule-keeping does not naturally evolve into living by faith, but only perpetuates itself in more and more rule-keeping, a fact observed in Scripture: “The one who does these things [rule-keeping] continues to live by them.”
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4 topical index results for “sustain”

PRISONERS : Sustained on bread and water of affliction (1 Kings 22:27)
ELIJAH » The Tishbite, a Gileadite and prophet, called ELIA » By divine direction goes to Zarephath, where he is sustained in the household of a widow, whose meal and oil are miraculousiy increased (1 Kings 17:8-16)
JOSEPH » Son of Jacob » Reveals himself to his brothers; sends for his father; provides the land of Goshen for his people; and sustains them during the famine (Genesis 45;;47:1-12)
WIDOW » INSTANCES OF » The widow of Zarephath, who sustained Elijah during a famine (46 Kings 17)