A Sermon
Delivered on Wednesday Evening, November 5th, 2025, by
Evangelist PAUL ACQUAH,
Live on MZ Radio London, London UK.
How do you make sense of a life that doesn’t add up? You read promises of peace, yet you feel overwhelming anxiety. You believe in provision, yet your bank account screams lack. You claim victory, yet all you can see is the conflict surrounding you.
The world presents us with a constant flood of physical truth – what we see, what we feel, what we fear. And for many of us, that shifting, subjective reality has become the measuring stick we use to judge the objective, eternal Word of God. We use our experience to edit scripture, instead of using scripture to interpret our experiences. Today, we draw a line. It’s time to stop judging the unwavering truth by your shifting circumstances, and start judging your shifting circumstances by the unwavering truth of God’s Word. Get ready to see life from God’s perspective in today’s message titled “Understanding spiritual and physical truth”. Be blessed as you listen!
Most people interpret God’s Word by their own experience. They’re thinking, God’s Word says one thing, but here is what happened in my situation. If someone doesn’t get healed, they make up their own theology and say, “Well, not everyone gets healed.” But that’s totally wrong. God doesn’t say no to something He already said yes to. You need to learn to interpret your circumstances by God’s Word and not the other way around. You should never interpret God’s Word by your circumstances. You need to understand Spiritual truths and Physical truths. Most of us have seen a promise in God’s Word and believed it to the best of our ability, but it didn’t come to pass. If we ask God for something and we don’t see it manifest instantly, most people question why God hasn’t answered that prayer yet. They assume that because they haven’t seen or heard anything, nothing has happened. That’s all wrong. We need to have more faith in God than we have in a medical doctor or a scientist. So how do we harmonise the fact that God is true to His Word even when it doesn’t happen? You need to understand that there’re spiritual truths and physical truths. And again, there’s a physical world, and there’s a spiritual world. The spiritual world created this physical world, and there is a spiritual reality for everything physical.
There is a very good illustration of this truth in 2 Kings 6. The Bible gives us a glimpse of this in 2 Kings chapter 6 with the story of Elisha. 8 Now the king of Syria was making war against Israel; and he consulted with his servants, saying, “My camp will be in such and such a place.” 9 And the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, “Beware that you do not pass this place, for the Syrians are coming down there.” 10 Then the king of Israel sent someone to the place of which the man of God had told him. Thus he warned him, and he was watchful there, not just once or twice. 11 Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was greatly troubled by this thing; and he called his servants and said to them, “Will you not show me which of us is for the king of Israel?” 12 And one of his servants said, “None, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.” 13 So he said, “Go and see where he is, that I may send and get him.”
And it was told him, saying, “Surely he is in Dothan.”
Elisha, the prophet of God, was revealing the Syrian’s battle plans to the king of Israel. Every time the king of Syria tried to ambush the king of Israel, Elisha would warn the king of Israel, and he would ambush the Syrian’s ambush. This happened so often that the king of Syria finally asked his servants to reveal who the traitor was. He knew that the king of Israel could not be manoeuvring like he was without inside information. When one of the king of Syria’s servants said that Elisha, the prophet of God, was revealing the words that the king of Syria said in his bed chamber to the king of Israel, the king of Syria sent his armies to capture Elisha. When the Syrian army had surrounded Elisha and his army, the servant panicked and asked Elisha what they should do. Second Kings 6:15 says, “And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?” When Elisha’s servant saw the Syrian troops, he panicked. He knew why they were there. They had discovered Elisha was the one telling the king of Syria’s battle plans to the king of Israel. They were in big trouble.
Look at the response of Elisha to this situation in 2 Kings 6:16: “And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.”. People who don’t believe anything exists beyond their five senses would say Elisha was lying. He was confessing something was so when it really wasn’t so, hoping that it would become so. But that’s not the way it was at all. Elisha spoke the truth. Elisha told the servant, “Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.” (2 Kings. 6:16). There were more with him than was with the Syrian army. It’s just that Elisha’s forces were in the unseen reality.The key to understanding this is to recognise there is another realm of reality beyond this physical world. Those who are limited to only their five senses will always struggle with this. They think Elisha was lying, and indeed, he would have been lying if all that exists is this physical world.
You could count the Syrian troops by the thousands, and there was only Elisha and his servant. But Elisha wasn’t lying because there was another world of reality. If you looked at the whole picture, the physical and spiritual world, then Elisha was right on. In the spiritual realm, there were many more horses and chariots of fire around Elisha than there were Syrian troops. The Scripture goes on to say: And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha (2 Kings 6:17). In the natural they looked completely outnumbered and doomed. While it’s true things looked that way in the physical realm, the spiritual realm revealed that powerful angels of God surrounded them. Elisha spoke the truth.
According to 2 Kings 6:17, “Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And he LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.” Gehazi’s physical eyes were already wide open. God was opening his spiritual eyes. He was able to see with his heart into the spiritual world. And when the spiritual world was taken into consideration, then Elisha’s statement was perfectly true. Those who see faith as an attempt to make something real which isn’t real will always struggle with those who see faith as simply making what is spiritually true a physical truth. Those who limit truth to only the physical realm would have called Elisha one of those false prophets. But in saying so, they condemn themselves. They show they only consider what they can see, taste, hear, smell, and feel to be reality. They are what the Bible calls “carnal.” When Gehazi’s eyes were opened, the Syrians didn’t disappear. They were still there. The physical truth was still true, but there was a greater spiritual truth that emerged. True faith doesn’t deny physical truth; it just refuses to let physical truth dominate spiritual truth. True faith subdues physical truth to the reality of spiritual truth.
