Looking to Go
27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Matthew 5:27-28
Well, sure looks like it's time already for the next installment of our hearings. Last time we had seen where everyone goes for which sort of hearing and for what. Now let's see if we can figure out more about this issue of the miles or the moneys owed, whatever it was. I've got the case notes right over here. It seems a man has looked on a woman with a lust after her. Now I don't know about you, but I have got the statues found right here in the
Thou shalt not commit adultery
The precepts or the basis of procedure then would be this little thing right here.
That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Well, we have both the law and the procedure right there. What comes next is anyone's guess. Now where should these two go, that are having the marital affairs or perhaps not. Seems to me that the issue of the miles or the amount owed is all a type of marital debt, is it not. People wake up every day saying I do but they don't even know what to. Turns out though that both owe each other a debt to tell the truth whether it be money shared or the miles between them spent apart. So, it's brought us here now to this moment. There's a guy and a girl and he's looking at her like the sun he'll not be able to find not now, not ever again. Let's say perhaps though that she's happily married. What then? He's looking at her and by the statutes he's alright.
Based on the precepts though, he's dead in the wrong. Sounds like it should be a spiritual matter then for the Lord, doesn't it. Let's go one step further and say she's married but not happily. This gives him a little more moral ground. Perhaps it's a community issue now and not merely a spiritual one. Now let's go one step more and say it's a woman whose husband had never returned. He had gone away one day and simply never came back. Maybe she's just fine with that but perhaps just maybe she isn't. It's definitely a case for the judge, now isn't it. All together now, once more. Let's give the woman an absent husband, one that exists only on paper and nothing more. Seems to me she fell in love with a ghost, didn't she? Alright, that about does it. Somebody call in the council quick. Something tells me you'll need them on this.