The Selected Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon, Volume 31
Tithing and Method of Managing All Things:
You find it contains fearful meanings once you carefully review the concept of tithing. In a verse of the Bible, you find that you are required to offer your tithe. In other words, you must offer one out of ten you earn. “Does God see what you offer your tenth? What is tithing?” Some people may question it. If you take one step for God, you may go all ten steps for Him.
For example, if your parents celebrate their birthdays or special 60th birthday, you may kill a cow and put away a pig for celebration meals. Then they eat all the meals prepared for the celebration. They do not. They graciously accept all meals prepared for their birthday.
However, they cannot eat them all. They eat a small portion. But, even though they only eat a small part of what is offered, there is a condition built that they eat every food prepared.
By the same token, tithing signifies that you offer your entire material possession to God by offering one-tenth of your material possessions to God. Even though you are not offering all you have, it is significant and valuable that you offer a small portion of all that with the utmost sincerity.
By offering one, the rest—nine—will be considered holy. Therefore, a person who lives a life of tithing will never perish. On the contrary, his storehouse grows day by day.
On top of this, a public person can administer all things with the managing method of the public world; thus he can have public dominion over all things. You must know that this is the Heavenly Law.
Once you understand this principle, you do not sin regardless of what you say or do—or even act in violence. Your act is to correct sins, and then you are not committing any sins. So, you must be discerning and dividing between good and evil and live for the greater good.
There is no one more fearful than people who live entirely for Heaven and Earth. The people who live for Heaven and Earth are religious. However, they have been persecuted, mocked, scorned, and discriminated against, and they have been chased away. But looking at this Universal Public Law, they are the more public people.
Would it be good or bad if you were chased away without any reason? I am sure that if you face such a situation, it is terrible when you are going through such a time. However, you will enjoy a positive result.
The beginning is bad, but eventually, all will be well. On the contrary, if you pursue world goods for self gains, it may be good in the beginning. But, the result is bad. In other words, such a person will perish. Evil seems to prosper at the beginning; however, evil will perish in the end.
Goodness seems perishing but in the end, goodness will prosper. Thus, you must understand that public life seems lost and perishing at the beginning; however, will prosper as a consequence.
END OF SERMON