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