Episode Transcript
[00:00:10] Well, hey, friends, welcome to the weekday podcast. My name is Bobby McGraw and I'm going to be with you all week long, and I'm looking forward to it. My hope is every single day that these bring encouragement and some hope to your day and maybe help you explore and live out your faith in a more powerful, powerful way. But today, I want to start with a question. Do you ever feel like you're living in two places at once?
[00:00:29] Like, you know you belong to God, you said yes to Jesus. You show up on Sunday, but Monday through Saturday, you're kind of operating by the same rules as everyone else around you. We chase the same things. We're worried about the same stuff, running on empty. If that sounds familiar, you're not alone. And I think that's a little bit of what Paul had in mind when he said this. In Colossians 1:13, he says, for he rescued us from the domain of darkness, and he transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved son.
[00:00:56] The word transferred there is doing a lot of work in that sentence. In the ancient world, when an empire conquered a new territory, they would physically relocate entire populations. They would move the people from one kingdom into another kingdom. So you weren't just under new management. Your address changed, the king you answered to change. Every single thing changed. Paul says that's exactly what happened to you. When you said yes to Jesus. You weren't just forgiven, you were changed, transferred. You used to live under the domain of darkness, but now you live in the kingdom of the Sun. That's not just a future promise. That's a present reality. That transfer, it has already happened. So the question is, well, why do so many of us live like it hasn't happened? I think it's because we don't always feel different. Life still has the same pressures. The bills are still real, the relationships are still complicated. And it's easy to keep defaulting back to the old way of operating because it's familiar, even when it doesn't work anymore. But the thing about people who've been relocated is you can always tell their priorities are different. They're less anxious about status because status isn't the currency of the kingdom they belong to. They're less afraid of sacrifice because they're not protecting life that was never really theirs in the first place. It shows up in the small stuff as well. It's the person who doesn't have to win the argument at the dinner table because their identity isn't riding on being right. It's the person who can give generously when it doesn't make financial sense who forgive somebody who doesn't deserve it. Not because they're a pushover, but because they're operating by a completely different set of rules. That's what it looks like to actually live like the transfer happened. So here's what I want you to carry with you today. Your old country. It doesn't have a claim on you anymore. The domain of darkness. It doesn't set the terms of your life anymore. You've been relocated. And that changes everything about how you see yourself, how you treat people and what you're willing to let go of. You're not a citizen of darkness trying to live in the light. You are a citizen of the kingdom. And you've been there longer than you might think. Here's the reminder. The domain of darkness. It doesn't set the terms of your life anymore. You have been transferred. Have a great day. We'll see you back here soon.
