Dave Wager: How to Delight in Your Eternal Destination

Stand Up For The Truth Podcast

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

On today’s NEW PODCAST, Host Dave Wager offers a unique “interview” with the late V. Raymond Edman through Edman’s devotional book The Delights of Life, focusing on the chapter titled “Destination.” Using Revelation 14:13 as the anchor verse, Dave explores Edman’s reflections on death—not as something to fear, but as a destination of delight for those who know Christ. Through Scripture readings, poetry, and personal stories, he unpacks the hope and assurance found in a relationship with Jesus, encouraging listeners to view death as the doorway to God’s eternal presence rather than an end to be dreaded.

Dave challenges listeners to examine their own views on life, death, and eternity, asking whether their trust is truly in Christ or in the temporary things of this world. He emphasizes that knowing God through His Word transforms our understanding of mortality and empowers us to live confidently and joyfully, even in the face of life’s uncertainties. This powerful conversation invites believers to shift their focus from earthly distractions to eternal truths, resting in the promise that “blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.”

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0:00.0	Three, three, two, two, one, zero, zero, zero, from the studios of WORQ in Wisconsin, this is the stand-up for the truth podcast.
0:15.9	Today's issues, overlooked headlines, and biblical observations, equipping the remnant around the globe got your sword handy
0:24.7	this is stand up for the truth welcome to stand up for the truth i'm dave wager your host for today's
0:33.6	program my guess this hour is going to be someone who's no longer on the earth.
0:40.0	Sometimes I find it interesting to try and think of what it would be like to interview someone
0:44.5	who's dead, someone who's with Christ right now.
0:49.3	And today I want to interview V. Raymond Edmund in a book that is entitled the delights of life that he left
0:56.8	this little devotional book for us and there are so many things in it that i think are positive
1:01.6	to talk about a verse to focus on revelation 1413 blessed are the dead which die in the lord
1:08.5	that they may rest from their labors and their works do follow
1:12.6	them. Father, we ask you to be with us this hour. Allow us to be those who understand the
1:18.5	preciousness of the relationship that you have with us, the confidence that we can have in life
1:24.6	and in death, and that you have a place prepared for those that love you,
1:29.6	and we can rejoice in that.
1:31.5	In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
1:34.5	Now, remember, V. Raymond Edmund was focusing in this book on delighting in something.
1:40.0	And when you read someone who delights in the idea of death, you know that he's thinking about something that you and I possibly aren't, because death is scary to most people.
1:49.7	In fact, he calls this chapter, chapter 16 in his book, Destination.
1:55.8	Revelation 1413 says, blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, that they may rest from their labors
2:03.2	and their works to follow them.
2:06.1	Charles Wesley wrote a poem called Promoted.
2:08.8	Let me read it to you.
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