neither does the Holy Spirit speak of the church as the kingdom. He speaks of the church as the habitation of God, a house, a temple, the body of Christ and the Bride of Christ, but we repeat it, never as the kingdom of the heavens. All this modern application of the kingdom of the heavens to the church is foreign to the Word of God. It is the unscriptural theory of man. But what does our Lord mean when He says “the kingdom of the heavens?” The answer is a very simple one. The kingdom on the one