“A CONVERSATION BETWEEN
MR PLUMB BOB AND MR BRICK WALL”
(How God’s laws can never save us)
“A CONVERSATION
BETWEEN
MR PLUMB BOB AND MR BRICK WALL”
(How God’s
laws can never save us)
Dear Reader, a plumb bob
is a piece of lead
on the end of a string, and is used by bricklayers to determine whether
walls are
vertical.
They have now been replaced
by spirit levels that
measure the horizontal and the vertical.
Here’s a conversation
between a Mr B. (Brick) Wall
and a
Mr P. (Plumb) Bob
Mr Wall: “Who are you?”
Mr Bob: “My name’s Bob … Plumb
Bob, and I represent
the Decalogue Brothers … you know … the Ten Commandments.
Mr Wall: “What do you want?”
Mr Bob: “We’re here to see if you
are upright and vertical”
Mr wall: “Buzz off! Of course I am.”
Mr Bob: “No you’re not … look here
… you’re not vertical.”
Mr wall: “Well I’m not as bad
as some other walls”
Mr Bob: “That doesn’t matter … YOU
must be at
right angles … don’t worry about the others!”
Mr Wall: “Well, if I had another
Plumb Bob to measure my
uprightness, I’m sure I would be!”
Mr Bob: “Look Mr Wall, as I said,
I work for the Decalogue
Brothers (DB) … there are ten of them … and they all say
the same
thing … you’re crooked, not vertical, not upright!”
“Let me call in DB#1
… there … see? … you’re
leaning over …
… Oh! You want DB#2
to have a go? … failed!
… Look, you’ve failed with DB#3
as well!”
“Anyhow, the rules state
that you only need to fall
out with one of the Decalogue Brothers … and you must be torn down
and the
builder must start over again … because the Bible says the following …
“For as many as are of the
works of the law are
under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that
continueth not
in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.”
(Galatians
3:10)
Mr Wall: “Well, what are you going
to do about it? It’s all
very well to be critical of me … how are you going to fix me up?”
Mr Bob: “I’m not here to fix you
up! I can’t! It’s
not up to us!”
“We can only tell you that
you’re not 100%
at right angles according to the Decalogue Brothers! You must be torn
down and
re-built … but this time by a builder who knows what to do.”
“You must get rid of your
previous builder … what’s
his name … Mr Self Righteous?”
APPLICATION:
Dear Reader, can you see
what this story is all
about?
You and I are Mr. Wall and Mr
Plumb Bob represents the Law … God’s Ten commandments!
Furthermore here are three
scriptures to meditate
upon …
“Now we know that what
things soever the law saith,
it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be
stopped,
and all the world may become guilty before God.” (Romans 3:19)
“Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster
to bring
us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after
that
faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.”
(Galatians
3:24-25)
“For as many as are of the
works of the law are
under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that
continueth not
in all things which are written in the book of the law (The Ten
Commandments) to do them …. Christ hath redeemed us from the
curse of the
law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every
one that
hangeth on a tree:” (Galatians 3:10,13)
The Decalogue Brothers grab
us by the ear like a
good schoolmaster should, and take us to Jesus Christ to get ‘fixed
up’
(code words for getting saved Acts 16:31) … you know …
“You’re not good enough!
You never were! You think
because you got a C minus you passed the exam! Well you didn’t!”
“God’s law doesn’t care if
you got 99.999999999999999999999999999 
into infinity on the Ten
Commandments exam … we are guilty of breaking ALL
of God’s laws.”
What should have been Mr
Wall’s (Dear
Reader, you and me) reply to Mr Plumb Bob (God’s Ten
Commandments)?
“Thank you Mr Plumb Bob … I
am eternally grateful …
for showing me I was out of alignment. I’ll shall go immediately to
Jesus
Christ, and thank him for saving me, and believe on him, that he lived
the
perfect life that I should have lived, and then shed his perfect blood
for my
sins!”
Harley
Hitchcock
November 2024
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