Talk: Remind the Saints of the Hope (Live)

It was in April of 1977

God began to speak to me

And I sort of went off into a little sleep

And I saw Bishop Mason walk in the room

Sat on the foot of my bed

And he spoke to me all night long

And early in the morning, just before the sun arose

He got up and quietly walked out

And just as he disappeared through the doorway

He turned to me and he made this statement

"Remind the saints of the hope"

And I woke up out of my sleep

And that's the only thing I remember him saying

I don't know what else he said

But I remember him saying, "Remind the saints of the hope"

All of these songs that we're singing

We're dealing with a generation, listen to me clearly

Who's coming out of, who've come out of Egypt, wandering in the wilderness

Many wilderness wanderers will not enter the land of promise

They don't understand the music

They don't understand the style

They don't understand the culture

And God is concerned about them

That element of the saints

He said, "Remind them of the hope"

Because they feel lost

Many of their great leaders have passed away

Those old bishops and preachers and state mommas

And district missionaries and praying mommas, they're all gone

And if they were here, they would not understand a lot of what's going on today

Many of them are depressed and weary

So the Lord said, "Remind the saints of the hope"

He spoke that through that dream

But I believe God is using these songs

And the spirit in these songs

Most of whose author we can not find

To remind that little mama that all she knows how to do is grown

She's not gonna understand Greek and Hebrew

It's not understand this new theology, this liberation theology

She's not, she's not going to understand, uh, a Kirk Franklin song

She might not even understand some of Fred song

She might understand some of Alvin songs

And some of the new songs that we all enjoy so much

They don't relate to it altogether

So we reach back and just hold their hand

They won't cross over

They're not ready to go over

They're not ready for war

They still have a slave mentality

Because they were slaves and they prayed although

They were midwives to this generation

Are you hearing me?

It's only becoming clearer to me now what God meant

What he said through that vision and vision with Bishop Mason

"Remind the saints of the hope"

Nudge somebody and say

I'm here to remind you of the hope (I'm here to remind you of the hope)

All is not lost (all is not lost)

Your best days are yet to come (your best days are yet to come)

Hallelujah (hallelujah)

So, we had to sing songs like this