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Summary prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

To read Tape Transcript,\u00a0click here<\/a>. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript,\u00a0click here<\/a>.
\nListen to MP3 (Pt. 1<\/a>,\u00a0Pt. 2<\/a>)
\nTo return to the Tape Index, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

FBI Catalogue<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jones Speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note: <\/strong>Labeled in part \u201c7-5-72\u201d<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tape contents consistent with date of either sermon, although Seattle portion (Part II) may have been in 1973<\/p>\n

People named:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Public figures\/National and international names:
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\nThomas Jefferson, former US president
\nAbraham Lincoln, former US president
\nPope John XXIII
\nMahatma Gandhi, Indian leader, practitioner of non-violence
\nRalph Waldo Emerson, American author, poet and philosopher
\nThomas Paine, pamphleteer in American Revolution
\nMark Twain, American writer<\/div>\n

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People in attendance at Peoples Temple service<\/em>
\nPart 1<\/strong>
\nE.R. (unknown member)<\/div>\n

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Part 2<\/strong>
\nEdith Cordell
\nMarceline LeTourneau
\nSister Thomas<\/div>\n

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Reverend Swanson, Seattle minister in audience<\/div>\n

 
\nBible verses cited: <\/strong><\/p>\n

(Editor’s note: The verses below appear in order of biblical reference, not as they appear in Jim Jones\u2019 address. For a complete scriptural index to the sermons of Jim Jones, click here<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Part 1<\/strong>
\nHe says, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. In my heart, I don\u2019t think. In my heart, I know I am the tabernacle of God Almighty!\u2026 For as I think in my heart, so am I (Proverbs 23:7: \u201cFor as he thinketh in his heart, so is he\u201d)<\/p>\n

I am healing the people! I\u2019m bringing them together out of their racism! I\u2019m curing them of their blindness, taking their cancers from their bodies, causing the crippled to walk, causing the lame to leap like a hart, causing them to dance for joy (Isaiah 35:4-6).<\/p>\n

Thy kingdom come, I said, in the sonship degree. Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven! (From the Lord\u2019s Prayer, Matthew 6:9-13, spec. Matthew 6:10)<\/p>\n

We want to glorify God by taking care of his little ones. Said, Suffer the little children to come unto me, for such is the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 19:14, \u201cJesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.\u201d See also Mark 10:14, Luke 18:16)<\/p>\n

You that would go out for those rascal preachers, and try to kill God\u2019s prophets (ref. to Matthew 23:31-34; also, Luke 13:34, Romans 11:3, I Thessalonians 2:16).<\/p>\n

You help those that are hungry. You help those that are naked. You clothe those that are in need, you take those in that are strangers. You feed the hungry. You minister to those that are sick and afflicted.\u2026 I\u2019m feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, taking in the stranger! (Matthew 25:34-46)<\/p>\n

If you live by the sword, you\u2019re liable to find yourself dying by the sword (Matthew 26: 51-52: \u201cAnd, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest’s, and smote off his ear. Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword\u201d).<\/p>\n

The kingdom of heaven is here! Said, God is not afar off, but he\u2019s at hand (ref. to Luke 21:29-31).<\/p>\n

And if had not been for that which I am in the hundred-fold degree of consciousness \u2026 I\u2019m not here in the thirty-fold. I\u2019m not here in the sixty percent. But I\u2019m here in the hundred-fold, one hundred percent God Almighty (ref. to Matthew 13:8, Matthew 13:23; Matthew 19:29; Mark 4:8; Mark 4:20, Mark 10:30; and Luke 8:8)<\/p>\n

When you know the truth, the truth will set you free. \u2026 You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free (John 8:32, \u201cAnd ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.\u201d).<\/p>\n

Jesus said, for what good work do you stone me? It is written, ye are gods (John 10:32-35).<\/p>\n

Because I said, I am in the Father, and the Father is in me (John 14:10-11, \u201cBelievest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.\u201d).<\/p>\n

For it is written that in the last days will kill, even kill you, thinking they do God a service (John 16:2, \u201cThey shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.\u201d).<\/p>\n

All live together, holding all things in common and sharing in the true spirit of apostolic socialism (Acts 2, esp. Acts 2:44, \u201cAnd all that believed were together, and had all things common.\u201d)<\/p>\n

No flesh shall glory in his presence. (1 Corinthians 1, esp. I Corinthians 1:29: \u201cno flesh should glory in his presence.\u201d)<\/p>\n

I have come in the person of Christ \u2013 just as Paul, the apostle said. What you forgive, I forgive also, he said. Anything you bind, I bind also. And Paul said, I do it not in the name, but in the person of Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 2:10: “To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ.\u201d).<\/p>\n

The weapons of my warfare are not carnal, but they are mighty to the pulling-down of strongholds (2 Corinthians 10:4, \u201cFor the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds\u201d).<\/p>\n

I have crucified my flesh, I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I \u2013 Jim Jones \u2013 but Christ that lives in this body (Galatians 2:20, \u201cI am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.\u201d).<\/p>\n

It is written, he is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above all that you are able to ask or think\u2026 Because, he said, he is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that you are able to ask or think. Have you ever been able to ask that you would be as God? To walk as God, to talk as God? The spirit of truth says he\u2019s able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above all that you\u2019re able to ask, or even to think (Ephesians 3:19-20, \u201cAnd to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us\u201d).<\/p>\n

I have inculcated the spirit and mind of God. I have let this mind be in me which you were told to do. I have let this mind be in me which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God, in the form of a servant, considered it not robbery to be equal with God. Though he was a slave, he said he was made perfect through the things that he suffered. He learned obedience through the death and mortification of the cross. And he said, in Philippians 2, for all of you to let this mind be in you. Well, I have. So if the mind is in me, then the body belongs to the body, the body belongs to the mind! So the mind is Christ, and the body is Christ, and God is addressing you at this point! (Philippians 2:5-8)<\/p>\n

Pure religion undefiled before God is to minister to the orphans and widows in their affliction. (James 1:27, \u201cPure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.\u201d)<\/p>\n

Part 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t see anybody gonna have to be left outside of the Ark of God\u2019s covenant. No. (Ark of the Covenant in several places, including Genesis 6, Numbers 10, Numbers 14, and Deuteronomy 10:8). <\/p>\n

Keturah was Abraham\u2019s wife. Or was she his concubine? I\u2019m just giving you just one paragraph, then I\u2019m quittin\u2019. Genesis 25:1: Then Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah. Took a wife, and her name was Keturah. Not according to First Chronicles 1:32. Keturah, Abraham\u2019s concubine. His whore. Now, honey, there\u2019s quite a difference between being a whore and a wife. I said, if you\u2019re a wife, you\u2019re not a concubine. If you\u2019re a concubine, you\u2019re not a wife. That means you\u2019re a mistress! You\u2019re a kept woman! (Genesis 25:1 contrasted with 1 Chronicles 1:32)<\/p>\n

You have got an idol. You\u2019ve got a graven image. And he said, have no graven images. This is a graven image. If you don\u2019t have the spirit of this book, you are an idolatrous person. You are worshipping an idol, and not the spirit of God. The Bible\u2019s not God, and you\u2019d better find it out! The Bible\u2019s not the Holy Ghost! (numerous references to proscription on graven images, especially in Pentateuch, including Exodus 20:4, \u201cThou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.\u201d)<\/p>\n

The heavens were brass. (Deuteronomy 28:23, \u201cAnd thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.\u201d)<\/p>\n

Long deconstruction of Judges 1:19, \u201cAnd the Lord was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.\u201d<\/p>\n

Things that will turn children\u2019s stomach. Like Jephthah, a prophet of God, was supposed to have made a covenant with God to win a battle at Aroer. Said, if I win this battle at Aroer, I will make sacrifice of the first one that comes through my door. Don\u2019t tell me it\u2019s not in the book. It\u2019s in the book. And so Jephthah won the battle of Aroer, and he had to murder his daughter because she was the first one that came through the door. Two months she went about bemoaning her fate \u2013 according to King James \u2013 and after that, he kept the vow which he made unto Jehovah. And that meant, under Jewish law, he had to burn her alive. Now don\u2019t tell me God approved of that. God is love! (Judges 11:29-39)<\/p>\n

One place you\u2019ve got the devil numbering Israel (1 Chron. 21:1 \u201cAnd Satan stood up against Israel and provoked David to number Israel.\u201d), and the other place it said God numbered Israel \u201c2 Sam. 24:1 \u201cAnd again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.\u201d).<\/p>\n

I accept all races as one, there\u2019s no respect of persons in God. I don\u2019t acknowledge any color, or national difference. All are one in him\u2026 This feeling of concern for all living things, the feeling that God is not a respecter of persons (2 Chronicles 19:7, \u201cWherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.\u201d See also, James 2:1-4)<\/p>\n

What kind of God do you think that is? Not my God! I\u2019ve seen my God stop the rain! When the rains were falling. When they throwed us out of the building two years ago, we had no place. We didn\u2019t have an aged home, didn\u2019t have a convalescent home then, didn\u2019t have anything, had nothing but a field. All winter long, the rains pour in northern California. But not a drop of rain fell on our heads. When the cars came up to our circle, they were rained on \u2013 it poured down on them \u2013 but no rain came on us. My God can cause the blind to see and the deaf to hear, and the lame to walk! (Isaiah 35:4-6)<\/p>\n

Jesus said, he saw the travail of his soul and was satisfied (reference to Isaiah 53:11, \u201cHe shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.\u201d).<\/p>\n

If you look at the Bible, just at for instance Matthew 1:16 and Luke 3:23 and trace the genealogy of Jesus. Now if you\u2019re very honest, you can\u2019t help but admit what I\u2019m saying\u2019s true. If you trace the birth of Jesus, through Joseph, in Matthew the first chapter, and the sixteenth verse, and Luke the third chapter and the twenty-third verse, what do you find? One place Jesus\u2019 father\u2019s Joseph, and the other place it is also Joseph. But what about the grandfather? One place says his grandfather was Mathan. The other one says his grandfather was what? Matthat. M-a-t-t-h-a-t, as opposed to M-a-t-t-h-a-n (Matthew 1:15-16, \u201cMatthan begat Jacob; And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ\u201d; Luke 3:23-24, \u201cAnd Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli, Which was the son of Matthat\u2026\u201d). But it gets even worse as you go on. You trace him on back to Abraham, and in one place he\u2019s got fifteen more grandparents than he does in the other (Matthew 1:1-17, contrasted with Luke 3:23-28).<\/p>\n

The dead letter doesn\u2019t even know where Jesus went after he was born. One writer says he went into Egypt to flee from Herod. Another gospel writer \u2013 because King James has got it mixed up \u2013 said he stayed every year in Jerusalem and kept the feast of the Passover (Matthew 2 contrasted with Luke 2:41, \u201cNow his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.\u201d).<\/p>\n

When you don\u2019t know what happened to Jesus when he was baptised with the Holy Ghost? One says he went where? To the wilderness, for forty days. Directly. The other one says that three days later he was over at Cana, Galilee, having a good time turning water into the wine. That\u2019s eighty miles from the wilderness (Matthew 4:1-11, contrasted with John 1:29 \u2013 2:11).<\/p>\n

The Word of God is still proceeding out of the mouth of God\u2026 You don\u2019t have to live by the letter. But you can live by every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God (Matthew 4:4, \u201cIt is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.\u201d See also, Deuteronomy 8:3.)<\/p>\n

We are to be perfect, even as he and the heavenly father is perfect. The purpose is to be just exactly like God. To be miniature replicas of God Almighty in the earth. (Matthew 5:48, \u201cBe ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.\u201d)<\/p>\n

Remember, dears, where your treasure is, there will your heart be also \u2026 because we don\u2019t need any place but God to have our treasure (Matthew 6:20-21, esp. Matthew 6:21, \u201cFor where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.\u201d See also Luke 12:34).<\/p>\n

But when you love somebody into the church of God, you\u2019ve got a savior. You\u2019ve got somebody that cares. You\u2019ve got somebody that\u2019ll lose their life that they might find it (Matthew 10:39, \u201cHe that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.\u201d See also, Matthew 16:25, Mark 8:35; Luke 9:24; Luke 17:33; and John 12:25).<\/p>\n

If you are willing to do that, I think that you can\u2013 maybe not just have as precise a gift as I have in the hundred-fold manifestation, \u2018cause there\u2019s thirty-fold, sixty-fold, one hundred-fold realms in God.\u2026 Not everyone can be in the hundred-fold company immediately. We all come at varying times into our consciousness of Christ, but as in Adam, all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man after his own order \u2026 That\u2019s what makes the hundred-fold come forth in you. Now some of you, who have been apostolic for years, you understand that there\u2019s thirty-fold, sixty-fold, and a hundred-fold. Most churches content themselves only being thirty percent filled with God. That\u2019s not enough God to get you through these times. Some are satisfied with sixty-fold \u2013 the Pentecostal experience, a little deeper. But that\u2019s still only sixty percent God. And then some are pressing on to the prize and the mark of the high calling, which is in Christ Jesus: one hundred percent God (ref. to Matthew 13:8, Matthew 13:23; Matthew 19:29; Mark 4:8; Mark 4:20, Mark 10:30; and Luke 8:8).<\/p>\n

And he heals the sick, and he raises the dead, and it cures the blinded eye, and it causes the crippled to walk, and the lame to leap like a hart (Matthew 15:30-32, Luke 7:21-22; see also Isaiah 35:4-5)<\/p>\n

Self-denial. Said, if any man would come after me, let him first take up his cross, Jesus said, deny himself and take up his cross (Matthew 16:24, \u201cThen said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me\u201d).<\/p>\n

I\u2019m positive that I wouldn\u2019t have this blessing, if I had not adopted eight children through the years. \u2026 He said, suffer the little children to come unto me, for such is the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 19:14, Mark 10:14, Luke 18:16)<\/p>\n

Send each other to hell over they strain at a gnat and swallow a camel\u2026 you worried about little old puny things. You strain at gnats, and you swallow camels (Matthew 23:24-25, \u201cWoe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.\u201d).<\/p>\n

All you\u2019ll see tomorrow when you go in is just organs and pianos. And pews. But no place for the hungry, no place to take care of the strangers. Matthew 25 told you how you could find him.\u2026 \u2019Cause Jesus said, if you want to find me, he said, I am hungry, and you didn\u2019t feed me. I\u2019m naked, and you didn\u2019t clothe me. I\u2019m a stranger, and you didn\u2019t take me in. I\u2019m sick in prison, and you did not come unto me. And those good churches trampers will say, when did we see you hungry? And he\u2019ll say, well, I was hungry in an old apartment building in Seattle. I was a poor little child in the Appalachian mine country. I was a poor little black child in some ghetto, I was a poor little Indian child on a reservation, I was hungry, and you didn\u2019t come to me. He said, in that you did it not unto the least of these, you did it not unto me\u2026 You\u2019ll have to feed the hungry and clothe the naked, if you want to find your God. (Matthew 25:34-46).<\/p>\n

He said, Lo, I am with you always even until the end of the world (Matthew 28:20, \u201c\u2026lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.\u201d).<\/p>\n

Said, if it were not for the elect\u2019s sake and the day is shortened, there would be no flesh saved. If the elect are some place up in the sky, why do the days have to be shortened for their sake? (Mark 13:19-20, \u201cFor in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be. And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect’s sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.\u201d)<\/p>\n

Said, you\u2019ll know a tree by the fruit it bears. Not by what it believes, but what kind of fruit it bears. You know that tree by what fruit it bears (Luke 6:44, “For every tree is known by his own fruit.\u201d See also, Matthew 12:33).<\/p>\n

And he said, depart from me, you workers of iniquity. I never knew you. (Luke 13:27, \u201cBut he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.\u201d)<\/p>\n

What do you think would happen to Seattle if each one of you said, I am the temple of God, and you went out to these dead churches and you went into the highways and hedges, and you went from hospital room to, uh, room, if you learn these sayings and get around and get some of this anointing I\u2019ve got (Luke 14:23, \u201cAnd the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.\u201d)<\/p>\n

And God\u2019s not a god that\u2019s afar off, but at hand. Kingdom of heaven\u2019s within you. (Luke 17:20-21, \u201cThe kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.\u201d)<\/p>\n

There\u2019s two different mountains named in the Bible as to where Jesus ascended, and one impression is that he ascended from the Last Supper (According to The Letter Killeth<\/em>, Christ ascended from four different places: From Bethany (Luke 24:50-51); From Mount Olivet (Acts 1:9,12); From Galilee (Matt 28:16-20); From a house in Jerusalem (Mark 16:14,19).)<\/p>\n

The actual conscious presence of God is the Word. The Word was with God and the Word was God (John 1:1, \u201cIn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.\u201d),
\nthe Word of God is still being made flesh today. I am bringing the Word of God out of this body right here in this atmosphere today\u2026 the Word was made flesh. It\u2019s never been taken out of the flesh. The Word has always been in the flesh! (John 1:14, \u201cAnd the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.\u201d),<\/p>\n

Jesus come out of Nazareth. No good thing ever came out of Nazareth. No good thing ever came out of Nazareth (John 1:46, \u201cAnd Nathanael said unto [Philip], Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.\u201d).<\/p>\n

Truth sets you free\u2026 You shall know the truth, but the truth shall set you free. And you don\u2019t want the truth, \u2018cause you don\u2019t wanna get free\u2026 Why don\u2019t we get the truth in our hearts? It\u2019s the truth that will set you free (John 8:32, \u201cAnd ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.\u201d).<\/p>\n

He said, if I be lifted up, I\u2019ll draw all men unto me (John 12:31-32, \u201cNow is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.\u201d).<\/p>\n

Bathe their feet (John 13)<\/p>\n

If we have love, we are his disciples. He said, by this shall all men know that you are my disciples, because you have love one for another (John 13:34-35, \u201cA new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.\u201d).<\/p>\n

I want you to take cognizance of my teachings. If you\u2019ll take cognizance of my teachings, and listen to my sayings, you can reproduce a greater picture of me than even I am reproducing. Jesus said, These things shall you do and greater, because I go to the Father (John 14, 9-12, esp. John 9:12, \u201cVerily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.\u201d).<\/p>\n

For as I am, so shall you be, it is written (John 14:20, \u201cAt that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.\u201d).<\/p>\n

You have to get inside you what\u2019s inside of me. The Holy Ghost, the anointing. The comforter. The spirit of bravery. Comforter means, in the Hebrew, come-forte: with bravery (several references to the Comforter in John, esp. John 14:26, \u201cBut the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.\u201d).<\/p>\n

Said after the Holy Ghost has come, he\u2019ll lead you and guide you through Romans and Thessalonians and Timothy. Was that what it said? That the Holy Ghost has come, he will lead and guide you through Corinthians. No! He didn\u2019t say that! Said when the Holy Ghost is come, he\u2019ll lead you and guide you into all truth! (John 16:13, \u201cHowbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.\u201d See also John 14:17.)<\/p>\n

Why, after Jesus was buried and put in the tomb, he wasn\u2019t in the tomb \u2013 hmm? \u2013 just a matter of hours. And Mary come walkin\u2019 out of the tomb, sorrowful and depressed in heart. Lowly in spirit. Depressed about the fact that they had laid her savior in the tomb. And she met a man by the way, the scripture says \u2013 didn\u2019t it say it? She talked to this man by the way, and told him \u2018bout how her savior\u2019d been taken from her, and he was in the tomb. And Mary thought it was who? The Gardener. She said it was the gardener, but your Bible says it was Jesus Christ. He didn\u2019t look the same, because Mary had been with him. (John 20:14-16)<\/p>\n

Someone said to me, you got all you got in the book. Can\u2019t do it. Jesus said \u2013 Jesus said \u2013 the following things in the last chapter of John. Jesus said, if all the things he had begun to both do and teach were written in the book, the world would not be able to contain the books. So all the works of Jesus is not in the Bible. The last chapter of Saint John proves that. All the sayings of Jesus is not in the Bible. All the actions of Jesus is not in the Bible (John 21: 24-25, \u201cThis is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true. And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.\u201d See also John 20:30-31.).<\/p>\n

Jesus said, the heavens will contain him until the time of restitution of all things spoken by the prophet (Acts 3:20-21, \u201cAnd he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.\u201d).<\/p>\n

I tell you that God through the scripture tells you that Cornelius was saved in his household. Was it not? God saved Cornelius in his household. The apostle said, this is a promise, that he\u2019ll save you in your household. Let me tell you, if God would make that promise to that rich Greek and wouldn\u2019t make it to you, he\u2019d be guilty of discrimination. I\u2019m here to tell you that God is gonna save you and your household (Acts 10).<\/p>\n

What do we have to look to but the anointing? The Bible tells you that no man can call Jesus Christ except by the Holy Ghost, or the anointing. Christ, the Holy Ghost, the anointing, revolution, whatever word you want to speak of\u2013 That, that spirit, that\u2019s the only way you can know what exists. You can\u2019t know anything without the Holy Ghost (Acts 10:38, \u201cGod anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.\u201d)<\/p>\n

I personally believe you\u2019re not gonna get raptured until you go through the tribulation, but that doesn\u2019t make any difference one way or the other. Tribulation works with patience, patience experience, experience hope (Romans 5:2-4, \u201cBy whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope.\u201d).<\/p>\n

And that we are to be, we who are predestined and preordained and who are in his foreknowledge are also preordained to become conformable to the image and likeness of the Son of God. We are to be like Christ in every way (Romans 6). <\/p>\n

God\u2019ll always have somebody speaking for him! He\u2019ll have somebody that\u2019s anointed! He\u2019ll have manifested sons that will show his works (Romans 8)<\/p>\n

Paul said, Don\u2019t say in your heart, who shall ascend into heaven and bring him down and who shall descend into the deep and bring him up from the dead? But what sayeth it? The word is nigh thee, even in your mouth and in your heart!\u2026 I don\u2019t look up to the sky to bring God down, I don\u2019t go down to the deep to bring him up from the dead, I just let him come out from within me! (Romans 10: 6-8, \u201cBut the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:) Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach.\u201d)<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why you have to have the Holy Ghost to show you what\u2019s true, and what\u2019s error. That\u2019s why I said, how can you hear without a preacher, how can he preach lest he be sent\u2026 How can you hear without a prophet, as it says originally, how can he prophesy lest he be sent\u2026 And I wish you\u2019d quit trying to judge me by the dead letter, \u2018cause the dead letter without someone such as I in the prophetic anointing, you cannot even hear without me. How can you hear without a preacher\u2026 How can you hear without a preacher, as I said\u2026 That\u2019s why you can not hear without a preacher, and he can\u2019t preach lest he be sent (Romans 10:14-15, \u201cHow then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent?\u201d).<\/p>\n

Faith doesn\u2019t come by reading, but faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God\u2026 , faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God (Romans 10:17, \u201cSo then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.\u201d).<\/p>\n

He may take his time. It may be not in your time, but sooner or later every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess of things on the earth, of things and above the earth, of things under the earth, and all shall acknowledge that he is God! (Romans 14:11-12, For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.\u201d)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s my responsibility to use those gifts that I have. Those aptitudes and callings are for the edification of the body of Christ, and it\u2019s my duty to express my talents and gifts just as you are in responsibility to express your gifts and talents (Romans 15).<\/p>\n

Where in the New Testament they ever have a building? They went to the house of Chloe and they went to the house of this one and the house of that one. They went from house to house breaking bread (1 Corinthians 1:10-11, \u201cNow I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.\u201d).<\/p>\n

Didn\u2019t say you were saved by the foolishness of reading the Bible, it said you are saved by the foolishness of preaching\u2026 you are saved by preaching, and I have preached (1 Corinthians 1: 20-21, \u201cWhere is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.\u201d).<\/p>\n

For I believe that no flesh shall glory in the presence of God (1 Corinthians 1:29).<\/p>\n

The man or woman that you\u2019re sitting under doesn\u2019t have the gifts of the spirit, doesn\u2019t have the fruits of the spirit, doesn\u2019t love children, doesn\u2019t take in the needy, doesn\u2019t heal the sick, doesn\u2019t minister to the needs of humanity, I\u2019d get outta that church \u2026 I have all nine gifts, and I have each of the five-fold ministries manifested through me (1 Corinthians 12).<\/p>\n

If we don\u2019t become living epistles, read and known of all men, we are finished\u2026 Jesus said, we need living Bibles! He said, you are living epistles! Living Bibles! Read and known of all men! I am one with God. \u2026 I am a living epistle\u2026 And would deliver the world as a living Bible. That\u2019s what he said: be living epistles, read and known of all men (2 Corinthians 3:1-3, \u201cDo we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.\u201d).<\/p>\n

The letter killeth, Second Corinthians 3:6, says the letter kills. The Bible kills, in other words. Letter to Romans, letter to Corinthians. The Bible kills, but the Spirit. What is the Spirit of God? Love. Love maketh alive\u2026 you don\u2019t need anybody just stand up reading to you out of the dead letter, because the Bible kills, but the spirit makes alive\u2026 the Bible \u2013 without the Spirit is the deadliest murderous weapon of all time. It\u2019ll kill. Now, you don\u2019t want to murder anybody. But this is what Second Corinthians 3:6 tells you: if you don\u2019t have the Spirit, it\u2019ll kill you. Now I know some of you have never heard that in your life, that the Bible was a murderer. (2 Corinthians 3:6, \u201cWho also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.\u201d).<\/p>\n

And it says, he will appear as an angel of light, in the Hebrew, that says he will camouflage as an angel of light (2 Corinthians 11:14, \u201cSatan himself is transformed into an angel of light.\u201d).<\/p>\n

I want to cause you to jump out into the unfamiliar territory and go out by promise like Abraham did (Galatians 3)<\/p>\n

If it\u2019s a true church, it\u2019ll take care of first the household of the faith (Galatians 6:10, \u201cAs we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.\u201d).<\/p>\n

I\u2019m an apostle, I\u2019m yet a pastor. I\u2019m a teacher, I\u2019m an evangelist, and I certainly am a prophet (Ephesians 4:8, 11, \u201cWherefore [Christ] saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men\u2026 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers\u201d).<\/p>\n

There\u2019s got to be a manifestation of the sons of God. If they\u2019re not a manifestation of the sons of God we\u2019re finished. \u2026 That\u2019s why you have to have apostles, pastors, teachers, evangelists for the perfecting! Perfecting, did you hear me? For the perfecting of the saints! You\u2019re not perfected by Bibles, you are perfected by the manifestation of the sons of God! That\u2019s what will perfect you. (Ephesians 4:10-12).<\/p>\n

He said, let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus who, being in the form of God, considered it not robbery to be equal with God. That\u2019s the mystery of which I have come to bring, to entertain your thoughts and aspirations, to enter into. Note what he said \u2013 to all of us \u2013 in Philippians 2, let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus who, being in the form of a slave\u2026 But he said, who, being in the form of a slave, considered it not robbery to be equal with God. Why has the church neglected this marvellous truth? Go home and read that, study that, think of that. Jesus who, being in the form of a servant \u2013 that\u2019s slave \u2013 considered it not robbery to be equal with God. That\u2019s what you\u2019ve gotta start thinking. Though you may be poor, though you may be the down-and-outs, though you may be the lowliest of low, you\u2019ve got to say I consider it not robbery to be equal with God in every phase of my life (Philippians 2:5-8)<\/p>\n

Gonna stir up the gifts by the laying on of hands and I\u2019m gonna send them all, everywhere I can to stir up the people\u2026 To get you to see all the good that I might have, and get all the good that God has for you. I want to stir up every gift in you (2 Timothy 1, esp. 2 Timothy 1:6, \u201cWherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.\u201d).<\/p>\n

What is the word of God? Just gettin\u2019 up and preachin\u2019 about heaven? That\u2019s not the word of God. The word of God\u2019s what I did a while ago with the woman that\u2019ve been told the intents and thoughts of their minds\u2026 What did it say, Hebrews 4:12 said the Word of God was? Said, it was sharper than two-edged sword, to the dividing the bone and the marrow\u2026 You saw the Word dividing the bone from the marrow, then the Word of God is a discerner of the thought, Hebrews 4:12 said, and it knows the intents of the heart.\u2026 Because it\u2019s the word! It\u2019s the Word that\u2019s here. The Word that\u2019s sharper than a two-edged sword. I am fulfilling Hebrews 4:12. (Hebrews 4:12, \u201cFor the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.\u201d).<\/p>\n

I think it has begun, I think we\u2019re right in the tribulation now, and I don\u2019t think there\u2019s gonna be any translation until we\u2019re first perfected, \u2018til we go through tribulation (Hebrews 10).<\/p>\n

Abraham had only one son. Hebrews 11:17: by faith Abraham offered up Isaac, his only begotten son. Galatians 4:22: For it is written that Abraham had what? Two sons. (Hebrews 11:17 contrasted with Galatians 4:22)<\/p>\n

I will not leave you nor forsake you, even unto the end of the world (Hebrews 13:5, \u201c\u2026for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.\u201d). <\/p>\n

All good and perfect gifts come down from the Father above\u2013 lights, whom there\u2019s no shadow of variableness nor turning. (James 1: 17, \u201cEvery good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.\u201d)<\/p>\n

The respect of persons is sin (James 2:9, \u201cBut if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.\u201d).<\/p>\n

It\u2019s gonna have to be love that covers a multitude of sins (1 Peter 4:8, \u201cAnd above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.\u201d).<\/p>\n

Whosoever loveth is born of God (1 John 5:1, \u201cWhosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.\u201d)<\/p>\n

The colleges are defeating the faith that was once delivered to the saints (Jude 1:3, \u201cBeloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.\u201d).<\/p>\n

Having a form of God in this denying the power, rich increased of goods and needing nothing (Revelation 3:17, \u201cBecause thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:\u201d).<\/p>\n

Summary:<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n

(This tape was transcribed by Kristian Klippenstein. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable assistance.)<\/em><\/p>\n

This tape comprises two sermons delivered by Jim Jones in 1972, the first to his followers in the Redwood Valley Temple and the second to a congregation of people who aren\u2019t familiar with him in Seattle during one of the Temple\u2019s bus trips outside of California. While both sermons include numerous biblical references \u2013 some specified, most in context \u2013 Part 2 of this tape offer much more of an introduction to Jones\u2019 reflections on his background, religious beliefs, and the role of the Temple and of himself as true representatives of the Christian faith.<\/p>\n

Jones\u2019 principal role in the Seattle segment seems one of stripping the churchgoers of their fundamental underpinnings \u2013 that of the Bible itself \u2013 as the foundation of their faith, and replacing it with the beliefs of the Temple. To that end, if there is in fact a text from which he is working, it is the booklet, The Letter Killeth, which highlights the inconsistencies and errors as well as the cruelties and socially-deviant practices contained in the Bible. He alternately describes it as a dead letter and as a graven image, the very concepts which the Bible criticizes. Moreover, the king of the King James Version of the bible was a despot and a drunkard and a whoremonger and an enslaver. <\/p>\n

Instead of the Bible to provide them guidance, he offer himself as the preacher who will not only give them knowledge of Christianity but will tell them the whole truth, and his authority for doing so is the Bible itself. They cannot learn about faith by reading but only by hearing it (it says so in the Bible), a preacher cannot preach unless he is sent (it says so in the Bible), and the true word is carried forward by those who are living epistles (it says so in the Bible).<\/p>\n

With that as a backdrop, he offers biblical authority for the work of the Temple: their efforts to feed the hungry and provide housing and the medical care for the elderly comes straight out of the Gospel of Matthew. <\/p>\n

As for himself, \u201cI\u2019m living Christianity\u2026 It\u2019s what I live! While you\u2019re preaching Christ, I\u2019m going about, from city to city, living Christ in deeds and actions! I\u2019m letting Christ have a body!\u201d The Bible speaks of those who live thirty percent or sixty percent in Christ, and of himself, who lives in the hundred-fold degree of consciousness. \u201cThat\u2019s what Jesus came to make you realize. And that we are to be, we who are predestined and preordained and who are in his foreknowledge are also preordained to become conformable to the image and likeness of the Son of God. We are to be like Christ in every way.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first part of the tape includes a portion of an address that is more familiar to members of the Temple. If he calls after those who leave during the Seattle sermon, he is much more focused in the other part of the tape on those who would disrupt Temple services or \u2013 worse \u2013 would try to silence him through assassination. But it hasn\u2019t worked, for as he reminds everyone,<\/p>\n

The people saw a weapon being discharged. It went right into my chest. Three holes. The nursing personnel put their fingers in it, big as an index finger. But I did not even bother to rest. I got on my feet instantly, and healed the sick, stopped an epileptic seizure on a word of command, and counselled all night long.<\/p>\n

For that reason, any would-be assassin would be advised to put their gun away.<\/p>\n

Jones does express appreciation to his followers in this portion of the tape. \u201cI am grateful indeed for all of you who have come out. For you that are black who have emancipated yourself from the old store-bought religion, that has been purchased and sold to you to keep you in misery and oppression.\u201d As for his white followers, he declares that they \u201care the only ones that love God.\u201d <\/p>\n

The message which he repeats several times on this tape, however, is that people who receive a healing on their first visit cannot expect it to last forever. While it is true that no member of the church has died \u2013 \u201cI have not held a funeral in so long I cannot remember. It\u2019s truly wonderful!\u2026 I have conducted the funeral of no one who knew the mind of Christ that is in me.\u201d \u2013 it is also true that he is speaking only of those who have committed themselves to the Temple. \u201cYou can\u2019t get healed in one meeting only. And if you do you better come back and get the truth, because you won\u2019t stay healed.\u201d<\/p>\n

FBI Summary:\t<\/strong><\/p>\n

Date of transcription: 7\/3\/79<\/p>\n

In connection with the Federal Bureau of Investigation\u2019s investigation into the assassination of U.S. Congressman LEO J. RYAN at Port Kaituma, Guyana, South America, on November 18, 1978, a tape recording was obtained. This tape recording was located in Jonestown, Guyana, South America, and was turned over to U.S. Officials in Guyana and subsequently transported to the United States.<\/p>\n

On June 14, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B107-29. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

Rev. JIM JONES holding a PT meeting wherein he prophesizes a catastrophy [catastrophe] for the world and California except for Redwood Valley. He continues to give his sermon of salvation and socialism.<\/p>\n

Differences with FBI Summary:\t<\/strong><\/p>\n

The summary is accurate and meets the FBI\u2019s purposes.\t<\/p>\n

Tape originally posted June 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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