Tuesday in Lent

17Verse 17. For behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind. 18Verse 18. But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight. 19Verse 19. I will rejoice in Jerusalem and take delight in My people. The sounds of weeping and crying will no longer be heard in her. 20Verse 20. No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days, or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at a hundred years, and he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed. 21Verse 21. They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 22Verse 22. No longer will they build houses for others to inhabit, nor plant for others to eat. For as is the lifetime of a tree, so will be the days of My people, and My chosen ones will fully enjoy the work of their hands. 23Verse 23. They will not labor in vain or bear children doomed to disaster; for they will be a people blessed by the LORD — they and their descendants with them. 24Verse 24. Even before they call, I will answer, and while they are still speaking, I will hear. 25Verse 25. The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the serpent will be dust. They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain,”

6Verse 6. And David speaks likewise of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works: 7Verse 7. “Blessed are they whose lawless acts are forgiven, whose sins are covered. 8Verse 8. Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him.” 9Verse 9. Is this blessing only on the circumcised, or also on the uncircumcised? We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness. 10Verse 10. In what context was it credited? Was it after his circumcision, or before? It was not after, but before. 11Verse 11. And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them. 12Verse 12. And he is also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised. 13Verse 13. For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.