I want to tell you about that day.

THAT DAY!, my friends, when the Good Lord will raise the Dead right outta HELL!

There’ll be thunderin’ [Stamping feet] and bells will be aclangin’ LOUD! [Loud bells and gongs]

And, you’ll just barely be able to here the Earth open herself up with a big ol’ Sigh! [Sighs].

And, the heat from the Earth will feel like the heat from that good ol’ Sun
which will have gotten much HOTTER!!  (Lord, I’m burnin’.)

Hotter, I say, from all that great love that’s bindin’ ALL SOULS together. (Love the Lord.)

You see that Sun? (Yes!)

It’s so bright you can’t look at it, but you SEE it and you FEEEL it!  (I feel it, Brother!)

You feel that warmth from the love of all those good souls huddled up there in Heaven.

And who do they love?! (The Lord!)

Yeah, they love the Lord and they love YOU!!

Yes, YOU, my friends, ‘cause you their children.

And, they even be burn’ for those poor souls who weren’t so good;

Those who come up late ‘cause they been burnin’ with SHAME!

But the Lord knows, and all those good souls in Heaven know,  they just forgot their Lord! (Praise the Lord!)

And on that day . . . Mercy gets BIG! (Mercy, Mercy, Mercy!)

I’m sayin’ it gets SOOO Big!

BIGGER . . . than even justice ever was.

EVERYBODY gets to feel all the warmth from God’s LOVE!

And what is it that holds all this universe together? (God!  Love!)

That’s right, my friends, God’s great Love holds us all together and gives us life.

What if you didn’t love your children?! (No! No! No!)

What if your folks didn’t love you?! (No!)

We’re all folks and we’re all one people bound together by our Love!  (I love you, Brother!)
 
 
 

And on that day . . . (Oh Lord, come quickly!)

The Good Lord cometh and we all see EVERYTHING in a NEW LIGHT of understanding.  (Show me the light!)

We see all by the Light of the Lord!  (Amen!)

And there will be no evil!  (Amen!)
 
 
 
 

(And then what happens?)

Well . . . I don’t know.  (What?!)

The Lord hadn’t told me yet.  (Well, pray to the Lord!  We go to the Lord!)

Yeah, we go to the Lord all right,

But I don’t know if we become part of Him or separate and loved by Him. (Part of Him! Loved by Him!)

Do we then cease to exist?

That might be more like a hell to somebody.   (Amen! [in a very small voice])

But, all I can say is that it will be SOOO GOOD! (Amen!)

And, even if it’s not what we wanted or expected, it will be better ‘cause of all this love.  (Love the Lord!)

And, the lord told me that all this GOODNESS will be for EVERYBODY,

And we’ll all feel the love comin’ outta EVERBODY

Even those devils and monsters of HELL!!

‘Cause everybody’s got to have this love if the story ever gonna end.
 
 
 

And if that story’s never gonna end, then what happens?  (What happens, Brother?)

It just goes around and around and around . . .

Now, to some people that’s good.  (It is!  No, end the story, Brother!)

It’s not in my hands.

I don’t decide how that story’s gonna end.

Only the Lord knows.  (Praise the Lord!  Ain’t he gonna tell us?!)

I don’t reckon the Lord’s gonna tell us . . .

But you know even if it keeps goin’ around and around, it’s what the Good Lord wants.  (Praise the Lord!)
 
 

See, my friends, you can’t limit the Lord by what you think you want.

Maybe the end you were expectin’ just came and went.

Every plague has been the rapture,

And those doomed to Hell are just waitin’ for our and the Lord’s love to help raise them up.

That’s what the Lord wants because he loves us ALL

And the time has come for us to love each other.  (I love you brother!  Even Hitler?)

Well, the Lord could decide he hadn’t stayed quite long enough

But, you know, someday even he’s got to come up.

Lord knows, he’s got to be ashamed even by now!

If this gonna work, we got to feel sorry for all the sinners ‘cause we all are sinners, aren’t we? (Forgive me, Lord!)

We ask for our forgiveness, Lord,

But, we don’t ask until we’ve forgiven those who have sinned against us.  (I forgive!)
 
 
 

I ask you, my brothers and sisters, to forgive me for not knowin’ all the answers.  (Only God knows!)

We GOTTA love and that’s all there is to it!

We’re gonna help the Lord make something happen with our LOVE!

And we’re gonna help end some of that eternal sufferin’

Even if the story keeps on goin’ around.

‘Cause the next story’s gonna be in Heaven.

That next story’s gonna be with the LORD!  (Amen! [Applause])