SCRIPT:
We're the only people living the Christ's life in the first place. Nobody else feeding
the hungry. Jesus said the only judge of a Christian, the only way you could
judge a Christian is if they fed the hungry, clothed the naked, took in the
strangers, and by damn, we take in more people and feed more people and send
food to more places, and do more for more people than anybody on earth. So
we're the only Christians, really.
Jones: Now we'll have to prove that someday, you can bet your-- you bet your
bottom dollar, we'll have to prove that. And the way you're going to have to
remember it is Matthew 25 and said, either why, we are the only ones doing
the work of Christ. Christ said that the people that would be judged as
sheep and goats, it was based on one thing. The goats were the people that
had no concern for feeding the hungry or clothing the naked or going into
the prisons and taking the prisoners out or ministering to the homeless, the
widows and orphans in their afflicted-- affliction. That's the way he said
you'd tell the goats and the sheep. And you're going to have to memorize
that, because we're going to have a time-- the only thing that shelters us is
the First Amendment, and today's paper-- I have many articles 'cause I read
every kind of news magazine and news article to keep up with what's
happening around us.
I've suspect I've read 15 newspapers today and five
magazines, and I can't incorporate it all and give it to you, dessimelate it
like I ought to, because if I do, I speak on one level sometimes, others are
on another level, it's difficult to get a comprehension, and with all that I
have on me to try to just protect this place from its-- from our enemies,
it's a, a good thing that I can even remember my own name, much less what I
read. I'm amazed-- the greatest miracle is that I can remember my own name,
'cause people work my ass off night and day, and give me no peace, night or
day.
(Pause)
If you don't believe it, you can just follow me 'cause I preach and speak 20 to 22 hours a day. Doctors are amazed at my voice,
(Raises voice)
they say it's amazing that I can ever open my mouth or even emit a sound, and they've been amazed for several years.
How many in this room have I healed of rheumatism or arthritis? How many have seen me raise, not one but hundreds, from the dead,
when their pulse and heart had stopped, and even bowel movement caked on 'em
when they brought them in? You've seen three people drop dead and you saw them resurrected. Their attitudes were prejudiced and they would drop dead, but I resurrected them. And I've done it sixty three times in eleven months this year in a public meeting. Now, not all these people liars.
Hundreds of people that lifted their hands in pained and crippling conditions. I did not touch them. I just sent my word, and everyone in the room was healed. That's all it takes. If you know what
you're dealing with, if you know that the magnetic force is here, if you
know the electrifier, the deliverer, the revolutionary, the li-- liberator,
the saviour has come, if you know it,
(Speaks quickly) all you have to do is just call. Mentally. Make a mental and a spiritual contact.
(Voice raises)
I don't care where you are.
(Stretches out words)
Just call on your God, and you will get an answer!
(pause)
I believe what Jesus said, that heaven is within you. The only
Christ you're gonna find is within you. Build heaven on earth. That's what
He said. Said, feed the hungry, cloth the naked, take in the stranger,
release the prisoners.
(pause)
Now our buses have travelled millions of miles, and even the police of
chief who is an atheist, said I know that God has to be with you. Some power
from outer space or something has to be with you. He said, you are not an
ordinary man, because, he said, buses cannot travel all these miles through
snow, sleet all these years, not one person ever being killed
in-- on the roads, in the thousands of miles we travel, every day, every
week, I travel 1400 miles, many of us, every week we travel 1400 miles to
get here, and I'm here every week, and it was 2800 miles here this last
week, 'cause I came here twice. Now think of it. The Word is quick. It's
powerful. It's sharp. Sharper than a two-edged sword. It's a discerner of
the thoughts. Yesterday, you saw someone that was crippled, healed. I
discerned her thoughts. Holiness, Pentecostal holiness sister back there,
she was crippled and she was healed, I discerned her thoughts. Yesterday, a
sister whose hand over here wouldn't close, was numb due to being severed,
it's all right today, isn't it? The eye was blind, and it was healed
yesterday. Discerner of the thoughts, it's sharper than a two-edged sword.
It knows the (tape garbled) I told her things about her life that she told
no one. I do it, and I've done it every day, every meeting I tell you, I
fulfil the Word of God, because the Word of God's not dead,
(The Jonestown Reenactment wishes to credit Rebecca Moore and Fielding M. McGehee III for transcriptions of many of the segments used here.)