Listen to Side A Listen to Side B To read the Tape Transcript, click here. To read the Annotated Tape Transcript, click here. Tape Summary Recorded in either San Francisco or Ukiah, likely in May 1973, this sermon deals much more with religiosity and much less with current events or political affairs than many of Jim Jones’ addresses from this period. Using the Bible – and especially the book of Matthew in the Gospel – as his authority, Jones makes a strong argument for his own divinity, sometimes as a successor to Christ, other times as Christ’s spirit in its return. Because of that invocation, Jones not only steers away from denouncing the Bible, he invites his followers to become “Christian socialists” by keeping God’s commandments. Those commandments not only include the ones everyone already knows – “you must keep the holy commandments and not kill and not lie and not bear false witness, nor commit adultery in any sense” – but they can find the new order only by cleaning up old traditions. In the case of Peoples Temple, that ranges from avoiding tobacco and alcohol to dropping the trappings of capitalism.