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(Note<\/strong>: Transcript prepared by Seriina Covarrubias. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Starts mid-sentence) (Calls out) \u2013you have the spirit<\/i> of the consciousness of our revolutionary God, then you would know what we\u2019re shouting about. You\u2019d know, you\u2019d know. (Pause) All right, it\u2019s all right.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> It is evident<\/i> that with the noise we\u2019re making, it is evident that though there are many here from every strata of society with all kinds of degrees and intellectual achievement, it is evident<\/i> that we have seen<\/i> something or we wouldn\u2019t make so much noise (Numerous references in Psalm to making a joyful noise unto God, including Psalm 66:1 \u2013 “Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands:” \u2013 Psalm 88:1, Psalm 95:1-2, Psalm 94:4-6, and Psalm 100:1).<\/span><\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Calls out) Hey spirit. Mighty God, mighty God<\/i>, mighty<\/i> God. (Pause) Mighty<\/i> God, mighty<\/i> God, mighty<\/i> God, mighty<\/i> God, spirit. (Pause) (Hums) (unintelligible word), come up. (Pause) (Tone moderates) S\u2013 Stick around, stick around. There\u2019s something we\u2019ve got that\u2019ll get hold<\/i> of you if you stick around.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Truly wonderful. Praises be the name of our revolutionary Christ. Bless you. (Pause) It is written\u2013 it is written, where there is no vision<\/i>, it\u2019s beautiful. She not gonna fall off that balcony \u2013 no way \u2013 when she\u2019s blessed with Pentecostal socialism and shouting unto the spirit, she won\u2019t fall off that balcony.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Look at that little baby up there, praising too up there, holding her hands up. Look at\u2013 look at that beautiful baby.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> The white mother and the black baby, clapping right along. Look at that darling baby.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Shouting<\/i> the victory right along. (Pause) That\u2019s<\/i> telling it, that\u2019s showing where we\u2019re coming up from. There<\/i> it is, black and white together, power in that equation. Oh yes, there\u2019s power<\/i> in that equation. That\u2019s showing the whole world<\/i> how we\u2019ve got over. We\u2019ve got over<\/i>, child, oh yes, we\u2019ve got over. Hallelujah.<\/p>\n

Woman 1:<\/b> (Sings) \u2013over. My soul is working wonder (word cut off)\u2013<\/p>\n

(Tape edit)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Beautiful. You show the enemy. You show the Antichrist\u2019s capitalist system very clearly when you sing like that quite frequently.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> You show<\/i> them how you got over, and you show them how difficult it would be for them<\/i> to get over. (Pause) Beautiful. You may be seated, if you can be. (Pause) It\u2019s wonderful in such an atmosphere. It\u2019s all right \u2013 praises \u2013 in such an atmosphere as this. And having a sister down there that was trying to die<\/i>, and I just had her walk up to k\u2013 touch and that I might kiss her. Most people would order quiet for such cases, but we know that there\u2019s something here that works just the reverse of what man expects.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Hums) Good<\/i> God. It\u2019s already passed and through, but the normal mar\u2013 the normal mind would say, get silent when things like that happen. But I didn\u2019t stop you from singing because I know what this vibration<\/i>\u2013<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> \u2013of socialism will do. I call for her to come up here<\/i> when she was hardly able to be held<\/i> up there. I call for her to come up here, and I kissed her, because I know this atmosphere gives life, it gives life.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Would you be so kind now to enter into your praise\u2013<\/p>\n

(Tape edit)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Quieter) \u2013and gave us this secretary for one of the governmental agencies, Internal Revenue. Gave us this conformation of what I was speaking about in the question-and-answer series last night. That\u2019s what thrilled me about that service you heard recreated last night in our Los Angeles Temple gym, filled with people without any radio or any newspapers, nothing but the word of mouth. One of our sisters was back there in the middle section dancing without any music, and that touched me so much. She was in advanced years, and Sister Ever [Rejoicing], she was dancing, a hundred years young, we celebrate her birthday. She around here somewhere, she been all with us all through the weekend. That\u2013 she stayed down in Los Angeles. That\u2019s beautiful. And so (Pause) that\u2019s what really\u2019s<\/i> going to change the world, when we give our substance<\/i>, (Pause) give support for our ideology. Sister Martin gave us this opinion. (Aside) Marceline. (Back to congregation) It\u2019s in the newspaper yesterday.<\/p>\n

(Tape edit)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Starts mid-sentence) \u2013the Supreme Court, the House of Lords. (Aside) Don\u2019t worry. You\u2019ll be all right, sister, I\u2019m sending you the word right now. (Back to congregation) The House of Lords, the Supreme Court of England ruled yesterday that the country\u2019s 4000 working men\u2019s unions are entitled<\/i> to exclude all blacks, all Indians and Asiatics. The decision was immediately attacked as deplorable by the Race Relations Board, (Pause) which said the ruling went against accepted policy of human rights. The decision reversed an appeal court decision just a year ago, that\u2019s how fast fascism, racism is moving in England. (Pause) One<\/i> year the court has reversed itself. Four thousand unions are now entitled to exclude blacks, browns, Asiatics. It upheld an appeal by the Longshoreman\u2019s Labor Club, an institute at Preston, which one day was known for its leftist position in Lancashire, and ruled the club did not infringe upon the 1963 Race Relations Act by asking black people, namely Anthony Sherman (phonetic), to leave the union, to leave the union hall. That\u2019s England,<\/i> that never had slaves on its soil. Canada this week is in prospect<\/i> of passing a similar<\/i> law excluding all blacks, browns, and Asiatics, not only from the unions, but from the right to live in Canada. And there\u2019s a similar legislation being promoted in England to remove all<\/i> existing blacks, Asiatics, and browns from the commonwealth. When asked, one of the chief Prime Minister\u2019s a\u2013 assistants\u2013 when asked what would happen if the countries that they came from will not have them back, said drop them in the sea.<\/p>\n

We have a place so beautiful to see that even Mr. [William Randolph] Hearst<\/i> came out and said that where we picked the Promised Land\u2013 I also thanked Bea Morton for getting that, that where we picked our area in the Promised Land is the best place in the world to be. Nation where the press functions freely, a rich country, this year\u2019s oil revenues alone will jump from three billion to ten billion. And two-thirds of its people have moved from abject poverty into sustenance in the past few years. (Pause) I can\u2019t emphasize enough that the money of the tomorrow will be oil. As Revelation spoke in typology \u2013 and we know the myths of all those things \u2013 but barley and wheat and oil is going to be the money of tomorrow (Revelation 6:5-6) \u201cAnd when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.\u201d).<\/span> But most particularly oil because without oil, you can\u2019t plant a thing. There\u2019s no nitrogen, there\u2019s no fertilization, nothing<\/i> can grow without oil and we don\u2019t have it, but our Promised Land\u2019s just 15 miles from it. It\u2019s wonderful. So we ought to make it go<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Approves)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Now I\u2019m asking tonight that you study yourself and show yourself rightly approved dividing the word of truth. When I ask the substance, let\u2019s see as much praise and as much joy when you stand with your gift, \u2018cause we want to do it quickly because we\u2019re in need. Finances is\u2013<\/p>\n

(Tape edit)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> \u2013and they are shooting<\/i>. They\u2019re going to shoot<\/i> without trial, without review the young man that attempted to assassinate the president of that dictatorship\u2019s South Korea [Gen. Park Chung Hee]. He was sentenced to death today. Those youngsters representing that alien anti-socialist religion that\u2019s\u2013 it\u2019s all over America called\u2013 whatever it is, I\u2019ve forgotten it. (Pause) International something, Reverend Sun [Myung] Moon. What is his religion? Universal something. If they\u2019ll get out and raise three hundred dollars a week, each one of them, young and old, good God almighty, why can\u2019t we get out? They don\u2019t have anything<\/i>. All they have is a 54-room mansion for their leader in New York. Half of the budget of seven million dollars or eight they raised last year went to their leader for Rolls Royces and a mansion over in New York, just outside Tarrytown, New York. Why don\u2019t we<\/i> develop this beautiful Promised Land that you\u2019ve seen in the movies that we\u2019ve shown you, and Brother [Archie] Ijames is back here as a living witness to tell you what exists.<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd<\/b>:<\/b> That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Is there not one that\u2019ll say I\u2019ll raise a thousand dollars in the spirit<\/i> of\u2013<\/p>\n

(Tape edit)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Starts mid-sentence) \u2013back. She pledged then, after I got her two<\/i> thousand back to give only five hundred, and didn\u2019t give that. The last time I saw her, she didn\u2019t have her mind, did she?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd:<\/b> Right, right.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> You saw her too, some of you, you know who I\u2019m talking about.<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd<\/b>:<\/b> Right.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> It\u2019s time you do right because judgment\u2019s<\/i> beginning at the house of this revolution, this revolutionary God, it\u2019s beginning<\/i>. I saw Mrs. Leonard sitting back thinking she was going sue us for her money that she\u2019d given free will offerings to this church, and the date<\/i> her suit was to take place, she died.<\/p>\n

Man 1:<\/b> That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> The date<\/i> she was being lowered in the ground \u2013 I want to correct that \u2013 she was being lowered in the ground the date that the first payment was to come. It\u2019s wonderful. Court<\/i> didn\u2019t make us pay it, we volunteered to, but I knew<\/i> we wouldn\u2019t have to.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> Right.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> I didn\u2019t want to get into no court action with some feeble-minded older person that had left their first love. And that\u2019s the only kind of feeble mind there is, is when someone has once known the truth<\/i> and turned away into darkness, having once tasted of the heavenly socialist gift and turned away to untowardness, they<\/i> are the feeble-minded (1John 1:5-6,\u00a0 \u201cThis then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth.\u201d Also, Hebrews 6:4-6, esp. 6:4, \u201cFor it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost.\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Scattered applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> I did not want to fight with that woman, so I said we will pay<\/i> it if she\u2019s alive<\/i> to receive it. That\u2019s the arrangement I made with her son who\u2019s the editor of a newspaper in Monterey. I said we\u2019ll pay<\/i> it if she\u2019s alive. He said that\u2019s fine. (Pause) Of course she was dead, so we didn\u2019t pay it.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Scattered applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> So wonderful. I say so wonderful because she shoulda never done that.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> You should give freely, and not try to cheat. You should make pledges and keep them. Not like our sister whose mind is gone, who stood here and pledged that same pledge three times, never paid it once. (Pause) Peace and love. (Pause) Who will give\u2013<\/p>\n

(Tape edit)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> There are those amongst<\/i> us who have the audacity<\/i> to question that I can materialize<\/i> anything, and I\u2019m looking<\/i> at one who has received such comment. I do not want you to feel<\/i> welcome when you set off and criticize this<\/i> house, that\u2019s not (unintelligible word) whether or not we do these things. The fact<\/i> is you have no business listening to that kind of comment, and the woman that made it is such a no-account who never puts anything into this work and drains it dry\u2013<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd:<\/b> Right.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> \u2013is a parasitical host, always sapping<\/i> our energy, always nit-picking. You have no business<\/i> listening to her, and I don\u2019t even want to see her face, she is so filthy but I put up with her for the sake of the equilibrium<\/i> of this family that the pear must grow up with the wheat<\/i>. [You] Say, who\u2019s he after? The person I\u2019m after knows who I\u2019m after.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Scattered applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Old gossip, men and women dealing in fables and gossip, and nothing h\u2013 more hateful in the consciousness of this revolutionary God than talebearers.<\/span> Don\u2019t you tell me that the sister that walked up, Sister [Ameal] Staten, brought back from death, when last night at our altar twenty dollars appeared. Don\u2019t tell me that that didn\u2019t happen. Don\u2019t tell me that Sister Mitchell all the money that came to her didn\u2019t happen. Don\u2019t tell me that people who\u2019ve had thousands<\/i> of dollars come to them, it didn\u2019t happen. Don\u2019t tell me\u2013 how many people had it happen in your purse or in your home, money appear.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Voice rises) In the first place, they\u2019re always nit picking, not because we<\/i> care about that, that\u2019s not what we\u2019re working for. We\u2019re working for materialization, all right honey, but it\u2019s not money<\/i> materialization, it\u2019s a materialization of a society where there are no classes\u2013<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> \u2013where there are no divisions, where there are no racists, where there is no money whatsoever<\/i>. (Pause) (Voice calms, then rises) But every time I find one of those nit picking talebearers, they\u2019re always<\/i> anti-socialist, anti-Christ \u00a0(Leviticus 19:16, “Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I am the\u00a0Lord<\/span>.”).<\/span> Just looking<\/i> for something. It takes a devoted apostolic socialist to recognize the church age and to function therein. It takes a devoted<\/i> apostolic socialist to keep this peace, to keep this quiet assembly when there are many things we could do. It takes a devoted<\/i> apostolic socialist to carry on these works when there is nothing better for us to do but to gain the ingathering of souls and to create masses<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd:<\/b> Yeah.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Not only quantity but a great deal of quality, because we had many that were turned away tonight. Now I\u2019m speaking, I will allow you to speak in just a moment. I certainly<\/i> will not infringe upon your right to speak, but do not impose upon mine<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> That waving in my face<\/i>, I don\u2019t like that. Now as I was declaring<\/i>\u2013 see, it\u2019s always bad to do that, because I am such a patient father and you do this, then I, I, I figure that what I\u2019ve got to say means nothing to you. (Pause) Don\u2019t distract me, because it means something to the honest of heart what I have to say is the truth<\/i> that will set you free if you will allow<\/i> it to do so (John 8:32, \u201cAnd ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> If it does not register with you<\/i>, that is no<\/i> responsibility of mine, for I am the truth<\/i>. I am the light that lighteth every man and woman that cometh into this continent, into this world of America today (John 1:9, \u201cThat was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.\u201d See also, Matthew 5:14, John 3:19, John 8:12, John 9:5, John 11:9, and John 12:46)<\/span>. I am<\/i> that light. (Pause) (Calms) Or socialism is a light and socialism has to have a bearer of its cross, and I have taken<\/i> its cross, and bless your heart, I have used<\/i> this cross as a battering ram, and I\u2019m now living in the resurrection<\/i> of socialism.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> So I\u2019m not interested in listening these tale bearers and these nit-picking bourgeois indulgent rich suckers. They want to suck on the rich. They want to live<\/i> off of us and act like they\u2019re going to be<\/i> rich. Sitting around, using our dormitories. Sitting around using our facilities. Sitting around eating our food. Getting an education from us and nit<\/i>-picking, and not showing up in church, and getting little jobs that keep them out of church. Oh, I know the damnable pears. I<\/i> know them.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> And I also<\/i> know you that sleep<\/i> with them. (Pause) Last night I called people out and showed them the thoughts of their mind and the intents of their heart, told them the things they thought when their babies were born, healed them of every kind of disease, dissolved the cancers. One of the men that had a\u2013\u00a0no urinary flow on Sunday, he was dancing, he passed the cancer Sunday, he was dancing, complete and permanent passage now, no pain, complete control again over his whole urological process. His whole kidney system now functioning after that cancer was removed from the prostate that had blocked his kidneys altogether. Don\u2019t<\/i> tell me that I cannot materialize, you damnedable liar.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Calmer) But if I could not, I\u2019m a better socialist than all the damnable critics that set on the sidelines\u2013<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> \u2013and nit-pick and backbite. (Voice rises throughout) It was not you<\/i> nor the likes of that little girl, that little simple minded bourgeois, little black girl trying to dress like a honky bourgeois. It was not the likes of such women that\u2019ve always been nit-picking and just doing as much as they can to disturb the peace. They didn\u2019t raise a dime to get Miss [Angela] Davis out of jail. They did not raise the money that brought our Brother Smith out of the terrible arrest of the military dictatorship. They did not free the three blacks that were waiting execution, no got the stay of execution, because I want to be perfectly correct. They are not the ones that freed three from the gallows and the gas chamber and the electric chair in the South in the last two years. No, it was not the likes of the little old devilish bitches that sit in our house, that back-slidden heifers that want to criticize and you that want to go along with them. No<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Then they stay home from church<\/i> on the weekends, got a three-hour job or they got to study<\/i>. I know a brother that has to study. I\u2019m gonna make a mustache on his rear if he don\u2019t get himself straightened around. That might mean that he\u2019s got a mustache on the front<\/i> part,<\/i> and I\u2019m talking about anybody that I see. And I\u2019m not talking about\u2013 I think the choir director\u2019s got one too, but I\u2019m not talking about him. Maybe his is gone, I don\u2019t know, I don\u2019t remember. But I\u2019m looking at his, uh, when you tell me that you\u2019ve got to study and you\u2019re off playing checkers or something like it. Chess\u2013\u00a0Honey, I\u2019m on your rear<\/i> end<\/i> tonight.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> You let the message go out loud and clear, I\u2019m going to back up every word I say. I get so much, I let your games go by and I see you trying to play with uh, your little old mouse, and at that you\u2019re a malnourished mouse, you look like you\u2019re a sickly<\/i> mouse trying to mess with this ole tomcat fooling around, and you think that you can deal with the hound of heaven. (Pause) I know we were taking an offering. That proves my honesty. Nobody but an honest being will stand up and begin to tell people their wrongs when they\u2019re taking an offering, but I\u2019m talking to these little old mice that\u2019re messing around trying to nibble at the great bread of life that\u2019s in this place. I\u2019m not gonna let\u2013 the cat\u2019s on the prowl tonight, the cat\u2019s<\/i> after them.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Calms, then rises) Now you tell those folk to get back in this place, and some of you prowl around in meeting, I\u2019m telling you this too, now that appo\u2013 that appoints some of you to consciousness now. Some of us sit here. We know just as much about socialism as you do. We\u2019ve got a whole lot more knowledge, in fact, about what to do<\/i> about it than you have. We set and we dance, we shout and we praise, and some of you have got St. Vitus Dance. You can not sit five minutes, you\u2019re Mr. or Mrs. Authority, running up and down these aisles. (Shouts) I want you to quit it or I\u2019m gonna call you out singularly and collectively. You get yourself seated and do the wo\u2013 work that the rest of us do, fill your shoes with responsibility.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> So you go out and tell all those mice and termites that the tommy cat of king (pause for deep breath) the eradicator and the dispeller of every false moodu\u2013 every moodiness, every motivation\u2013 I get my Portuguese so mixed up sometimes with my English that I am particular when I want to curse<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> You better hope I don\u2019t curse like I can curse, because it\u2019s said that God cursed<\/i> them and they died. (Pause) And Jesus cursed<\/i> the moneychangers out of the temple (Matthew 21:12, \u201cAnd Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves.\u201d).<\/span> I look upon some of these people that just actually take advantage, use you precious ones and manipulate you and won\u2019t care\u2013 put their shoulder to their wheel, won\u2019t carry their fair share of the burden, go around dressing fancy. Little ol\u2019 fancy, little Jezebel that I\u2019m thinking of back there. That little ol\u2019 Jezebel been laying with everybody. Tried to get everybody from Walter Cartmell to the one she\u2019s got now.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Stirs)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Now that\u2019s what happens to me. You better repent because when I get an overload I just vomit it out, so you can get straightened up.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Little ol\u2019 Jezebels think they know something about building socialism, and they\u2019ve never (stumbles over words) at one time got their little hands soiled or their little manicured job slightly spoiled. They got to have every curl in place and they want to set off and say I don\u2019t believe this. Well I don\u2019t believe in them and (Shouts) I want them get out of my face or repent. I want to get out of my face or repent.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Intense) And that has to do with anybody that\u2019s shacking<\/i> up with them. If you lay in the belly of whores, then you\u2013 you make your bed with them, you also reap with them. [You] Say, I don\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about. Some<\/i> folk do, honey. It\u2019s getting hot<\/i> back there in that corner.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Laughter and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Calm) Now if you just repent and do right, and don\u2019t go weeks and weeks trying to steal the energy of this most high god, and try to take advantage of his faithful disciples by not being in your place. He\u2019s merciful<\/i> to the one (unintelligible word), one generation to another generation \u00a0(Luke 1:50, \u201cAnd his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.\u201d).<\/span> He lets it go, till finally he gets too much of it. Then you\u2019re the ones gonna get hurt, because he\u2019ll make a public example of you. He\u2019ll hold you up for public ridicule. That\u2019s the only place that I know that\u2013 ec\u2013 the economic equalities really come is where the immoral\u2013 and I don\u2019t mean something about what you\u2019re doing in the boudoir, I\u2019m talking about the immorality<\/i> of inequality, immorality<\/i> of capitalistic behavior, the immorality<\/i> of some people taking and others giving so much. And I\u2013 the only place I know where it\u2019s working (breathless) successfully tonight in this creation of this Earth planet, this\u2013 the lowest realm of hell, the only one place where I know where it\u2019s worked. They don\u2019t shoot the people that work against<\/i> the cause, they hold them up to public ridicule. They let them go so<\/i> long, then they reprove them, and they rebuke them for all<\/i> the comrades to hear that they all<\/i> might exemplify from and be able to demonstrate in their own<\/i> life experientially, constructive behavior from what they have seen of the unconstructive behavior in the person that\u2019s being disciplined. So I have done everything but name your name, and you had better get your back-slidden heifer positions right, you better get them in order, and you that are conforting with them and consorting with them, you better get yourself straightened out, because I have named some almost, but I\u2019ve named who they\u2019ve laid<\/i> with, or nearly<\/i> laid with. So I\u2019ve almost<\/i> put them\u2013 didn\u2019t lay with Walter, tried<\/i> to though.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Scattered applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Tried<\/i> to though. (Pause) I\u2019m sick<\/i> of it. I\u2019m sick<\/i> of seeing some of these names come up every time, and some of you faithful people, hundred years of age, ninety, and hundred, and hundred and three, sitting here, and faithful workers coming in night after night, giving me their heart, giving me the spirit of socialism, their love<\/i>. They\u2019re not doing it for a man. (Full fervor) They\u2019re doing it because I\u2019m no longer a man, I\u2019m a revolution<\/i>. I am the I am, I am the mighty wind of revolutionary change. I am the spirit of deliverance. I am the spirit of liberty and the saying let the oppressed go free.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Calms, then builds) They\u2019re not giving devotion to a man. No, not to a mortal, but to the spirit of the actual conscious presence of their socialistic, their revolutionary god<\/i>! So now straighten<\/i> yourself up. Lying upon lying and precept<\/i> upon precept. Repent of your untowardness, or the next<\/i> meeting you\u2019ll be named publicly as a showpiece, as a demonstration for discipline for all of this holy<\/i> cadre, because these<\/i> are they upon who the ends of the world have come (1Cor. 10:6-11, esp. 10:11, \u201cNow all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.\u201d).<\/span> (Shouts) You were chosen to bring deliverance to this continent. You are<\/i> the sons and daughters of the most high<\/i> god.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Recording technician:<\/b> All right, let\u2019s do it again.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> We cannot nor will we allow this integrity to be dissolved by such as the likes of that which I have just described. Cheaters<\/i>, those who thieve<\/i> from the energy of this great consciousness. Those with academic privilege and academic position<\/i>, both of them college people. Both<\/i> of them. One of them I saved from the jaws of jail. If I hadn\u2019t been a father, and stood in their way, if it\u2019d been just the people\u2019s will, they woulda been arrested for an immoral act. (Shouts) I\u2019m sick and tired of my love and my justice being trampled asunder. I\u2019m sick and tired of it.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> So I\u2019m telling you this, and I say it the last<\/i> time, you better tell the woman that I\u2019m referring to and the man<\/i> to get<\/i> themselves lined<\/i> up or lay their lives out like an open book (voice quietens) so that everybody can read every fine line of every topic on every chapter of every page.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Subdued applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> So up\u2013 to all<\/i> the others that would want to break through and steal from the equality and justice of this house, you think I\u2019m holding back. I\u2019m holding back, I\u2019m gonna have special privileges, I\u2019m gonna have better food. There\u2019s another thing I\u2019d like to get in this house straightened: (Voice builds) either this house straighten<\/i> up its food<\/i>, either you straighten this food up till we are fed decent<\/i> food downstairs or you keep the food\u2013 this is a commitment from me and my staff. You keep your food out of my quarters. Either this church begin to give an equality of distribution, and you begin to bring food for my people as quickly as you will for me, or I am going to be on fast every day, and so will my secretaries and my associate ministers, because we want equality here, and I\u2019m sick and tired of it.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Los Angeles women on three of them\u2013 and I know I was in their principle behaviors, their discipline of the hundredfold commitment and sacrifice \u2013 it\u2019s touched them \u2013 are able to feed not only the forty, fifty people we\u2019ll bring in for two days, but all the people that come into our services and do it graciously, and sufficiently, that it is inexcusable that that is our new<\/i> church, and they have taken that load and I spoke to one of them at the Temple cafeteria, our beautiful kitchen that\u2019s been built there in our lovely Los Angeles Temple. She said I\u2019m doing it for you<\/i>, the spirit of socialism, and I thought, what a beautiful answer she could give me. [She] Said that\u2019s why I\u2019m doing it. When I thanked her, [she] said don\u2019t thank me, I\u2019m doing it because you are the spirit of socialism. I think that\u2019s what she said.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Now\u2013 I\u2019m addressing you. I want no food<\/i> in the back<\/i> of the Temple in Los Angeles that is not the food<\/i> served to the ordinary members of this family because we are all one<\/i>. I have no anniversaries, I have no birthdays, I have no Christmases. Mrs. Jones has no pastors\u2019 wives\u2019 tea, we do not believe in respect of persons, and we know that respect of persons is capitalistic sin \u00a0(Acts 10:34, \u201cThen Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons.\u201d).<\/span> We are not<\/i> going to tolerate it, I\u2019m speaking for all, most<\/i> of the secretaries and associates have been consulted with, and the ones that haven\u2019t, I\u2019m speaking for<\/i> them anyhow.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> I want no food paraded up and down the aisles of my bus that\u2019s a better taste\u2013 or better variety than that which is being served to the family members on that bus. I know that I have energy level that\u2019s used beyond all knowing, except some like Sister Rose that are close to me when it goes 22 hours a day. Like Wednesday night you went home at midnight, we left this Temple at\u2013 going on 11 o\u2019clock. It was 11 o\u2019clock the next morning after an all-night counseling and my faithful people stayed on the bus and people came in interchangeably that needed to be counseled and consultation and appointments, and also high regional planning of the apostolic governing council. This went on through, going<\/i> on at 11 o\u2019clock Thursday morning, then we ran on that bus and stepped inside with hardly a bite, I didn\u2019t take a bite. I stepped from the bus (unintelligible word) into the pulpit and preached that night and went all<\/i> night again, all day again. Got on that service again, no more than stepped from a council, stepped from an emergency meeting right into a meeting Friday night and you heard the results of it last night. Oh, Heaven<\/i> came down, socialist heaven consciousness came down, and glory<\/i> filled the place \u00a0(2Chronicles 7:1, \u201cNow when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> And such has been the day. (Voice calms) Meeting with Dr. Goodlett and others, such has been the day. And I stepped in here from emergencies, right\u2013 stepped smack into this platform. So it does take energy. But you\u2019re not going to be able to feed me unless you feed my people. You\u2019re not going to be able to take care of me<\/i>\u2013 oh, there\u2019re some of you\u2019d bring a pot luck for me, you\u2019ll bring me nice chicken, you\u2019ll bring me\u2013 Yes, what is it brother? Anything you wanted? You\u2019re just agreeing, thank you. Better do it like that. (Laughs) (Pause) So<\/i> if you want me to eat well\u2013 and some of you will bring nice food for me, oh, you can do it so beautifully, you can just give me such nice<\/i> things. I don\u2019t let you do it with clothes, I won\u2019t let you give me shoes, I\u2019m gonna keep these holey shoes until all my people have shoes<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> You\u2019re not gonna give me any clothes. But I\u2019ve been busy not watching the food line as closely as I can, I\u2019m watching it now. I mean I\u2019ll be as skinny as a whale, unless you people straighten<\/i> up and bring the food in here. I want to see this house filled<\/i> tomorrow, and I want the name of everyone that brings food. I want our people to eat, not have to put some hash together. I want food<\/i> of abundance. In my Father\u2019s house there shall be an abundance of every good desire (John 14:1-7, esp. 14:2, \u201cIn my Father\u2019s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> I wish I could keep my mouth shut because I have to give my voice as an eternal sacrifice, \u2018cause I have another all-night meeting facing me as soon as this is over. It\u2019ll be finished at the time of the morning meeting begins. And I wish I could be silent, but as long as sin<\/i> creeps in\u2013 and sin is to him that knoweth to do right and doeth it not. Capitalism. Anything that\u2019s not of the faith<\/i> of socialism, it is sin \u00a0(James 4:17, \u201cTherefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n

Man 3:<\/b> That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> So I have let this sin go along not<\/i> consciously. Now I consciously face it and consciously I will not tolerate it anymore. I will throw<\/i> your food summarily out the window if it\u2019s not enough to go around in this church and feed it to the lovely animals that\u2019re out there because I will not make any kind of a false distribution. It is only just a little bit of it. So don\u2019t bring me food up there tomorrow, don\u2019t you test me, unless you\u2019ve first<\/i> gone down and seen that there\u2019s aplenty to feed everyone of all my family that comes from Fresno and far as Los Angeles, all over this nation, even from Portland, Oregon. Don\u2019t you fail to have that food there or tomorrow, well\u2013 (Pause) You\u2019ve heard the saying, hell<\/i> will break loose. Well, hell\u2019s nothing when God breaks loose.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

(Tape edit)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> And so absolutely<\/i> I want you to see that you\u2019ve given the kitchen people what they need to work with tomorrow<\/i>. How many gonna bring food tomorrow<\/i>? Well, you get lost tomorrow if you don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Scattered applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Because I\u2019ve got a Promised Land. It\u2019s a city set on a hill that cannot be moved (Matthew 5:14, Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.\u201d).<\/span> I\u2019ve got a place where there\u2019s refuge on 27, 000 acres with every kind of berry and fruit<\/i> and vegetable growing, and all<\/i> the wild beasts of the field so that no one will ever will go hungry, so if you want what I\u2019ve got, line<\/i> up baby.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> I\u2019m not talking to people from Madera or from Fresno who cannot get food. I didn\u2019t see a dozen hands from people that live in this Bay. I want to see the Bay people\u2019s hands. How many are gonna bring food tomorrow in this house so that my people will not be in need? (Pause) Well, if it\u2019s there we\u2019ll eat, and if we don\u2019t, then we\u2019ll all go hungry, \u2018cause we\u2019re all gonna do whatever we do together, aren\u2019t we?<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> I want to break this class system. Don\u2019t you realize, that I\u2019m socialistic, I cannot stand it? You bring me fruits and you bring me this and that, and you want to give me this and you want to give me that thing. I want my people to be able to enjoy what I enjoy. If they can\u2019t, get it out of my face.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Scattered applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Secretaries implement this by stern calling. Kitchen staff needs your support, and also those who do minister at any one of my tables, don\u2019t you hold back any special plate for any<\/i> special person. Don\u2019t you give a little bit more, as some I\u2019ve seen done in some of the kitchen work, don\u2019t you give a little bit more<\/i> to somebody that you happen to like. I don\u2019t like it, do you hear me? I don\u2019t like it.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Scattered applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> And if you don\u2019t like it, quit<\/i>, because somehow we will minister our food. If you don\u2019t like it \u2013 or you do like it \u2013 we will continue to go on because, you see, God-Socialism\u2019s already won.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> We do have one nice boat, big boat. So folk want to get their feelings up in their air, want to get their tail up like (unintelligible word), that\u2019s all right. Want to get their feathers (draws out word) all shook<\/i>, let them get shook, because that boat might just be big enough to take the faithful to the Promised Land.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> So I hope that that will take care of a few<\/i> of the little problems. You say this church must have problems. Honey, this church in comparison even to the adulterers and the defamers and blasphemers that I was discussing in more detailed<\/i> account tonight, this<\/i> church even with its blasphemers<\/i> and defilers<\/i> and adulterers<\/i> that I was talking to, makes your<\/i> church look so unholy and us look so<\/i> holy, it makes our church look like the shining silvery sun or moon, and your<\/i> church look like an old mangy dog baying at it.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> She was also dying a while ago, and I told her to get up and walk. No medical person would say do that. All the nurses get nervous when in the service when I say get them up, get them up and tell them to do something. Look how bright she looks now. Look how bright she looks.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Walk back to victory. That\u2019s two<\/i> tonight that were on their way to dying, but I said (Shouts) thou shall not die<\/i> but thou shalt live.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Until you get some people out of jail, until you have put money into feed the poor and impoverished starving masses, one million of which will die according to all the newspaper articles by December, and eight hundred million more that will die next year by Walter Cronkite\u2019s own prophecy. Not a prophecy, by his own prognostication, his own projection. (Pause) Until you<\/i> have put tons of food in Honduras, or in Bi\u2013\u00a0Biafra, or in Sub Sahara, or in Bangladesh, or until you<\/i> have put tons of food at Wounded Knee or Alcatraz and water there every day as we did when those Indians were holding out for justice. Until you put money in and freed every one of those that were in Wounded Knee when nobody gave them a ghost of chance, but you\u2019ll notice they were all on my platform in Los Angeles and every one of them walked out scot-free\u2013<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Voice rises throughout) They all were free. We had every one of that tribal council on our Los Angeles pulpit, and I turned over considerable money to see that they were free, and what was more<\/i> important I put my spirit in them and put my justice before them and I brought my pendulum<\/i> of equilibrium into<\/i> display, and I brought about a justice that you little pipsqueaks cannot do, none of your churches can do, so you quit criticizing how I administer this revolution. You quit judging what I do. I will do what I have to do and you better do it with me.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Calms) Now we all understand each other, and I will take the offering. Always clear the house of sin and iniquity before I finish an offering. Don\u2019t<\/i> I?<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Agreement and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> I don\u2019t want your filthy commitments. If you can play chess, I don\u2019t want anything from you, only to get out of my sight. If you can hold a three-hour job and stay out of my services two days a week, I don\u2019t want you around me. And I mean, I am. I said to Sister Jones a moment ago, when she said (unintelligible word) and I said, while I was gone<\/i> over there. She said you mean while I<\/i> was gone. I said no, I<\/i>, because there<\/i> I am, there I am. She said that\u2019s how you can tell the love<\/i> you have, because you\u2019re always referring to someone else when they\u2019re going through suffering as if it were you or someone else going in an experience as if it were you. Because I no longer live<\/i>, I am crucified with the revolution. I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless I live, yet not I, but in a thousand bodies, in yea<\/i>, ten thousand bodies, I live<\/i>\u00a0(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).<\/span><\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Don\u2019t you understand the mystery of that? (Pause) No longer I, but Christ<\/i> the revolution. Christ in the Hebrew means revolution, the anointing, the electrifying revolution. No longer I that lives. I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless<\/i> I live. Yet not I but Christ, and that revolution is here, it\u2019s there. It is everywhere. I have thousands that can be marshaled at a moment\u2019s notice for peaceful<\/i> demonstrations \u2013 and they shall be peaceful as long as you recognize that we are going to have peace in our Promised Land valley, that we are going to be uninterrupted and our people are not going to be taken in concentration camps<\/a>, it will be peace<\/i> \u2013 but if you want to make and choose<\/i> the weapons, we can reach you on whatever level you want to reach us.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Hey-hey. (Pause) If you want to be met by the lamb slain from the foundation of the world for justice and peace, you can be met by that (Revelation 13:8, \u201cAnd all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.\u201d).<\/span> If you want to be met by the dove of peace, you can be met and introduced to the dove of peace. But if you want to be living by the sword, you\u2019re gonna die by your damn sword (Matthew 26:52, “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.”)<\/span>\u2013<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Cries out) \u2013because God \u2013 I mean this infinite God\u2019s administration \u2013 will take that sword and ram it.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> I think I\u2019ve said enough. There is a point of no return. Shall we now administer the important thing of giving substance to your vision, for where there is no vision, the people perish. You\u2019re gonna have to get a vision that makes you lively to do this thing properly here and make sacrifices to get our money in the Promised Land before the whole bottom falls out of this country (Proverbs 29:18, \u201cWhere there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.\u201d).<\/span> [Secretary of State Henry] Kissinger said this week and President [Gerald] Ford said this<\/i> week that Communism\u2019s going to come about all over the world, and we cannot let it happen, Mr. Kissinger said, even if we have to use military might<\/i>. That means on your backs, child. That means to get black people out of the way. We have all those titles and programs. Someone said the emergency laws have been some of my little petite bourgeois always come up with the encouraging news, they never can see anything to work for. They\u2019ll come up and say the emergency legislation has been revoked<\/i>. Honey, the president can reinstitute every one of those emergency measures in thirty seconds, and what you didn\u2019t<\/i> know, the emergency powers were not<\/i> curtailed \u2013 not<\/i> one iota \u2013 and still some of the statutes of emergency laws that\u2019ve already been enacted were not removed. So don\u2019t come up to me with your uh, (Pause) bourgeois capitalistic optimism. I don\u2019t want to see it, until I can see you see the sufferings of fellow kind, your fellow human beings. Don\u2019t come up to me with your false sense of security, always wanting to see some bright side of Kissinger or Ford. The only bright side of Ford will be when he\u2019s in a junkyard where he belongs.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> So please<\/i> get off my back tonight and straighten up because I\u2019m generous. I\u2019ll give you many times to try to fool me. I\u2019ll let you try to sow, little foxes, but then after a while I\u2019ll get ya, (Pause) and I won\u2019t just chew you and swallow you, I play with you like the king tomcat does. I\u2019ll pat you around a little bit and shake you up. It\u2019d be easier if I just swallow ya, but that wouldn\u2019t teach you anything. I\u2019m out to save you \u2013 even the mice \u2013 and the mice with all their little\u2013 I\u2019m out to save you. So I\u2019ll bounce you around like a little tomcat I used to have, just knocked the mice senseless, and they\u2019d still walk away not harmed. I\u2019m gonna either by love and sweetness bring<\/i> the angel out of you, or I\u2019m gonna by hard licks and knocks. And I believe that\u2019s the only way I get<\/i> it out of some of you. The only way I can bring the angel out of the top<\/i> of you is to beat the devil out of the bottom<\/i> of you.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Laughter and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> So is there one in the room that\u2019ll give one hundred and seven\u2013<\/p>\n

(Tape edit)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Starts mid-sentence) \u2013couldn\u2019t say. No, she couldn\u2019t say anything, \u2018cause she was laying in a pool of blood right up on the altar. No, she couldn\u2019t say a thing.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> But she had a slight stroke last Sunday and got healed and now she said I\u2019m glad to say I\u2019m raised from the dead. (Pause) (Clears throat) How many will give 999?<\/p>\n

(Tape edit)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> So don\u2019t go to that old jackleg church tomorrow. Some of you couldn\u2019t bring any food tomorrow, \u2018cause you\u2019re going to a jackleg church. I saw half a row of you back here.<\/p>\n

James Edwards:<\/b> Oh, yeah.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Thank you, Reverend Edwards. (Pause) Good minister that brought his entire Church of God into this congregation and joined with us, been here for years knowing the truth. And I always like to hear his, \u201cOhh yes!\u201d Get in here with this, friend. You don\u2019t know a church that\u2019s got a warehouse full of food. The storehouse means that you\u2019re supposed to have food for your people. Your<\/i> church doesn\u2019t have it for you. You don\u2019t know a church that\u2019s got ground both here in America for a depression and ground if they do to us what they did to the Japanese or the Germans did to the Jews. You don\u2019t know a church that\u2019s got twenty seven thousand acres, twelve miles, seven miles wide and twelve miles long. You don\u2019t know a church that\u2019s got that kind of land across the sea. You don\u2019t know a church that owns a fleet of b\u2013 Greyhound buses or a but\u2013 or a whole big boat\u2013<\/p>\n

Man 4:<\/b> Right.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> \u2013an ocean ship. You don\u2019t know, you don\u2019t know any church that\u2019s got that. You don\u2019t know a church that l\u2013 has a pastor that lives in old clothes and holey shoes and doesn\u2019t own a car, while the people have all those blessings. You don\u2019t know<\/i> such a church. So why do you go<\/i> to such a church? I want to know why. (Pause) I want to know [why] you go to those jackleg churches. Why do you go over to the thirtyfold when there\u2019s a hundredfold right here in America today? Why do you go to the sixtyfold and the thirtyfold and usually the one and a half fold? That\u2019d be closer to where you\u2019re going. Those jacklegs might get one and a half, maybe 1.77. They wouldn\u2019t come up to 2%, and here we have the hundredfold \u00a0(Matt. 13:8, 23, \u201cBut other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold\u2026 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.\u201d See also, Matthew 19:29, Mark 4:20, Mark 10:30, and Luke 8:8).<\/span> What does hundredfold mean, one hundred percent commitment. One hundred percent commitment to truth<\/i>, one hundred percent commitment to justice<\/i>, one hundred per\u2013 percent commitment to all that is socialistic. That\u2019s what we are. If we see anything\u2019s not right, we stomp on it.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Scattered applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Your churches wouldn\u2019t take on their kitchen staff, their usher staff, their security staff, your preacher wouldn\u2019t touched \u2018em, \u2018cause that preacher wants an anniversary next month. (Clears throat) I\u2019d preach the truth tonight. I did, precious ones. I preach it tonight \u2013 and this is what you don\u2019t know about me, some of you\u2019ll never know it till it\u2019s cross time \u2013 I\u2019d preach the truth tonight if my own wife walked out and never came back. I\u2019d preach the truth tonight if every person left me and I was alone in this building. (Shouts) Wake up that young man sitting back there like Socrates or whoever it was [Auguste Rodin], a thinker on his fist. (Pause) (Quiet) You know who I\u2019m talking to, brother. (Pause) Don\u2019t sleep on me. I\u2019ve been up too many nights. Don\u2019t you sit there and sleep on me. Don\u2019t try to hide it tonight, \u2018cause I\u2019ll be after ya like a hound. (Clears throat) Sometimes you cover it pretty well, some of you folk, you can sleep and get dark glasses and sleep settin\u2019 up with a smile even.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Laughter)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Clears throat) (Pause) That young man\u2019s a good man. He\u2013 he doesn\u2019t sleep much. He\u2019s a little P.O.ed at me, but he\u2019ll have to get un-P.O.ed \u2018cause I\u2019m just gonna keep right on preaching the truth.<\/span><\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> \u2018Cause I know where they place all people that stand for what I do. I know there\u2019s a Golgotha, I know<\/i> it. I know there\u2019s a lonely garden (references to Christ\u2019s arrest and crucifixion in four Gospels).<\/span> I know they try to even intimidate people like me by seeing that there\u2019s a knifing every day in Alcatraz, but I don\u2019t care what they do<\/i>. I know that they\u2019ll prosecute and persecute and they\u2019ll speak ill of me by their fascist, racist rich newspapers that are owned by a chain of rich people throughout the country. I know my day\u2019s coming, so that\u2019s why I\u2019m gonna get as much truth out every night as I can. I\u2019m gonna lay<\/i> it out while I can, everywhere I can. I\u2019m gonna spew<\/i> it out.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> I just as soon die from a knife in Alcatraz as I would to lay in our beautiful nursing home that was called the best in the state, given the best accredation [accreditation] of anyone in the state, the best praise of anyone in the state by the State Board of Health. I\u2019d rather die with an Alcatraz knife in my back, or San Quentin it is now. I\u2019d rather die<\/i> with the knife of some racist enemy than to lay in a nursing home bed while all my vulture relatives were settin\u2019 around waiting for me to breathe my last breath so they could fight over he that\u2013 who got my undershorts.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Scattered applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> I\u2019ve seen it happen to people in our nursing homes that were not in this faith, that did not have this immortal life, because everyone that\u2019s died in my presence has been resurrected. Is it not so?<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Calmer) So anyway I\u2019d rather go with a knife or a gun for standing what I believe than to waste away and look at people just stand over you like vultures wanting you to die. Hmm-mmm [No]. I\u2019m gonna m\u2013 make a beautiful<\/i> melody for truth while I\u2019m at it. So you can\u2019t intimidate me, you can\u2019t threaten<\/i> me. You certainly<\/i> can\u2019t sleep<\/i> me out. You can\u2019t shut<\/i> me out, \u2018cause I\u2019ll throw water on you if I have to, to wake you up.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Scattered applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> \u2018Cause I faced being thrown in boiling oil, and I\u2019ve faced death, gone through it, and I more than conquer over death, hell, and every capitalist phrase. I more<\/i> than conquer tonight, \u2018cause death no longer has any\u2013 no longer can death find anything of itself in me. No longer<\/i> does death have dominion over me (Romans 6:9, \u201cKnowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.\u201d).<\/span> I\u2013 death has no fear. It holds no fear and I think some of you are getting that way.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b> (Applause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> You\u2019re getting that way. (Pause) Two seventy-seven was it for everyone.<\/p>\n

End of tape<\/b><\/p>\n

Tape originally posted January 2006<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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