Spirit to make a mistake.

Paul was led by the Holy Spirit to believe it possible the Son of
God might come in his day.

What Paul under inspiration said for his generation, he said for our
generation.

He said it for you and for me.

Because no man knows the hour when the Lord will come it might be in
your hour and my hour.

The Master Himself said:

"You know not what hour your Lord doth come."

Who is he who will have the hardihood to fix the hour when the
Master has said no man knows?

Who is he who will put a thousand years between the Church and her
returning Lord?

Where is the difference between a thousand years' delay and one
moment that can be fixed by any man?

If the Lord says you do not know the hour and necessarily do not
know the minute of the hour, if you fix a minute between us and the
Coming you deny the words of the Son of God Himself that the minute
and the hour are unknown.

Who is he who has it all fixed and polished and pumice stoned to the
exact date?

The Lord has said no man on earth knows, not an angel in heaven
knows. He Himself took the place of a servant and by the exercise of
His omnipotent will residing in His eternal and unchanged
personality as Son of God and God the Son, shut out the knowledge of
it from His humanity, from Himself as man, and said He did not know
when He should come.

Admit that a revelation has since been given to Him as a man or that
He has taken the ban off His human side Himself and that He knows
when He will come for the Church and the exact hour of His appearing
in glory; admit this if you like and for the sake of argument
(although there is not the slightest shade of a shadow of evidence
for such an argument) it still remains that no such revelation has
ever been given to the Church; neither has the restriction of the
Son of God to His disciples been removed. You remember what He said
just before He ascended!

This is what He said:

"It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the
Father hath put in his own power."

That this restriction was for the Church is the declaration of the
Apostle. This is what he said to the Church at Thessalonica:

"Of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I
write unto you."

Why had he no need to write to them?

Because the day of the Lord, he said, should come as a thief, and as
that day is introduced by the Coming of the Lord for His Church,
then His coming for the Chu