This Jim Jones sermon before the members of the Peoples Temple congregation in Los Angeles contains many elements of Jones’ oratory from the period of the early 1970s. There is much political commentary, there are references to his healing powers, and there are reminders of the benefits that people have within the Temple. Most of the sermon is devoted to the Bible, though, and Jones uses it both to demonstrate his mandate to speak for God and to mock it as a source of hypocrisy, inaccuracy and oppression. Indeed, he combines these two concepts by denouncing the "Skygod" of the Bible — a reference he makes over and over here, as well as in other addresses of the period — and by proclaiming himself as God. In his political moments, he criticizes President Nixon for opposing an increase in Social Security benefits, which, he says, will bring hardship to the people in his church. Later, Jones speaks of the administration’s plan to "take over by dictatorship, and … yield electoral process … yield the Constitution." While he was not the only person in 1972 who circulated the allegation that Nixon planned to cancel the 1972 elections due to national emergency, Jones does add the warning that "it’s our CIA, our American Central Intelligence Agency that’s doing it." Full summary of the recording available at Alternative Considerations of Jonestown website, along with the tape transcript.