Gospel - Is There Life After Death — Peter Brandon

Life After Death and the Biblical Evidence

The subject tonight is life after death. Is there real evidence and therefore we are going to turn to the scriptures and see what the bible says about this subject. Now shall we turn to the scriptures.

The Rich Man and Lazarus

We are going to read from Luke 16 and we shall read from verse 18 and these are the words of the Lord Jesus. Whosoever puts away his wife and marries another commits adultery. And whosoever marries her that is put away from her husband commits adultery.

There was a certain rich man which was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day. And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus which was laid at his gate full of saws and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table.

Moreover the dogs came and licked his saws. And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. And in hell he lifted up his eyes being in torment and seeth Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom.

And he cried and said Father Abraham have mercy on me and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue for I am tormented in this way. But Abraham said Son remember that thou in thy lifetime receiveth thy good things and likewise Lazarus evil things.

But now he is comforted and thou art tormented. And beside all this between us and you there is a great goal fixed so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot and neither can they pass to us that would come from them.

Then he said I pray thee therefore Father that thou wouldst send him to my father's house for I have five brethren that he may testify unto them lest they also come into this place of torment. Abraham saith unto him they have Moses and the prophets let them hear them.

And he said no Father Abraham but if one went unto them from the dead they will repent. And he said unto him if they hear not Moses and the prophets neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead.

The Christian Hope of Being With the Lord

Now would you be kind enough to turn to another portion of scripture it's 2 Corinthians chapter 5 and we read the first eight verses. 2 Corinthians 5 1 -8. For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of God a house not made with hands eternal in the heavens.

For in this we groan earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven. If so that we be clothed we shall not be found naked. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan being burdened not for that we would be unclothed but clothed upon that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

Now he that hath brought us for the selfsame thing is God who also hath given unto us the earnest or the guarantee of the spirit. Therefore we are always confident knowing that whilst we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord for we walk by faith not by sight.

We are confident I say and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. Wherefore we labour that whether present or absent we may be accepted of him. Now the Lord will bless to us the reading of his precious word.

The Need for Reliable Evidence

I think one of the most tantalising questions that the human race tries to answer is this question is there real life after death? If we went back in history and we looked at the various religions it would be quite obvious for literally thousands of years even primitive people believed that there was some kind of life after death.

And it's very strange that even those people that have strong atheistic views have some kind of a shudder that there might be something after death. Take for instance Colonel Ingersoll that great renowned infidel who stood at his brother's bedside and said that he would give 20 ,000 pounds and that was over 90 years ago to anyone that could prove to him what was on the other side of life.

And so we can see that there is an inarticulate quest to know what happens after death. Secondly if we were to go round various death beds of Christians I think most of us would be disappointed. Not every Christian died victoriously and therefore if we were to take recordings of the last words of scores of Christians we would not be able to assess that there was life after death.

For instance many people who die are on sedation and all kinds of very peculiar hallucinations are given. So we can see that the preacher would be very foolish to give you death bed evidence. If we want evidence it must be absolutely reliable.

For instance they used to believe that the world was square. And if you believed that the world was round in certain countries immediately you were put in prison. But there was two brilliant seamen that did not believe that the world was a cube, they believed that it was round.

One was called Christopher Columbus and the other was called Vasco de Gama. And one went east and the other went west and Vasco de Gama brought back samples of India and Christopher Columbus brought back reliable samples of America and when they saw and analysed those samples they knew that they were utterly wrong and the world was not a cube it was round and they had the grace and the courage to take away the cubes and they put balls for the world.

But you see it took a breakthrough to convince them that the world was not a cube it was round. Of course if they had read the scripture especially in Isaiah they would have seen that the world was round because God never sits on the cube of the earth he always sits upon the circle of the earth.

Again there's further evidence. When I was a boy at school I used to hear Professor Gene speaking to us over the radio and he told us emphatically that there was atmosphere on the moon. They had proof that there was atmosphere on the moon.

And then although he was a brilliant astronomer, one of the greatest astronomers that the world has ever known he believed that there was beautiful vegetation on the mass. But when there was a breakthrough and they landed some men on the moon and they came back with samples of the dust of the moon they proved convincingly that there was no atmosphere whatever on the moon.

And they also know now that there's no vegetation on Mars. And this shows to us how the intellectual canons can be wrong, totally wrong. But you see it took a breakthrough to do it. Now we come to the very sensitive point.

Jesus Christ as the Reliable Witness to the Afterlife

Has there been a reliable breakthrough into death? Has someone that's reliable and authoritative who lived and died come back again with real evidence, real evidence of life after death? Now the greatest person that ever lived was Jesus Christ.

Your date system is not based on Alexander the Great. Your date system is not based on the great Caesars. Your date system is based on Jesus Christ so you can see he is absolutely central in human history.

And the Lord Jesus claimed to be the son of man and he claimed to be the son of God and quite frankly there's real evidence that he was a perfect man and there's real evidence of his divinity in the scriptures.

Now he told us more about the afterlife than any other philosopher or prophet in literature. In fact he told us more about hell than heaven. And we know it was a fact that he was crucified on a Roman gibbet.

We know that he was buried in a rich man's tomb and we know the tomb, it was the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea. And we know that he was raised from the dead. And that is why last night I gave you detailed evidence of the resurrection.

And those who were here heard me give, number one, textual evidence, historical evidence, critical evidence. Unfortunately I couldn't give you legal evidence, I wish I had time to do that. And then experimental evidence.

And you will agree with me, there's real evidence in the resurrection of Christ. Quite frankly, there's more evidence in the resurrection of Jesus Christ than the evidence for the existence of the Caesars.

More evidence. And therefore dear friends, because someone has been into death and come out of death with reliable evidence, we can be sure that there is an afterlife. And when John saw him on the isle of Patmos, it was recorded to John that Jesus said, I am he that lives and became dead and behold I am alive forever more.

Now note this, and have the keys, the authority of death and Hades. In other words, real living evidence of the afterlife. Now my dear friends, with that piece of evidence I do trust that you will believe what the scripture says, that there is a life because someone reliable has come from the dead.

And more than that. On Saturday night, I'm not only going to show from the scriptures that he was raised from the dead, and this is a tremendous historical fact, and he's alive, but he's going to come back.

And he's coming back very shortly. And he's the only one that can put our world right. Don't you believe it for one moment when the Gulf War is over, that human beings will be able to deal with the problem in the Middle East.

They will never settle it. The only person that will settle it is Jesus Christ. Now with that in mind, I want to go through the teaching of our Lord, and I'm only going to quote our Lord. And I want to give you real evidence of this life after death.

The New Birth and Life Before Death

First of all, I want to speak on the test. Then I want to speak on the time of death. Then I want to show you something that's lovely, the real triumph in death. And then very carefully I want to show you the tragedy of death.

First of all, the test. I was having a series of meetings in the shipyard in Belfast in Highland and Wharf. And as I was preaching, one man interrupted me, and there must have been about 500 shipyard workers listening.

And he said this, Mr. Brandon, Christianity is a deathbed religion. You're all death scared to die. That's why you're Christian. My dear friends, I want to totally deny that fact. If you don't have life before death, you won't get it after death.

And that is why the Lord Jesus says, Except a man be born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. The Lord Jesus made it quite clear when he said, I am come that she might have life, and that she might have it more abundantly.

Now can I say this to you as before God? That Christianity isn't a miserable existence. When you become a Christian, you do not look like an undertaker with a white waxen face, and you look a picture of misery all the days of your life.

If you're that kind of person, I don't think you're saved. When you become a Christian, he forgives your sins, he makes you right with God, and he wants to fill you with joy and peace and happiness. Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Now I know sometimes when you look at some of my brothers and sisters, if I may use my mcCockney expression now, they do look like dying ducks in a thunderstorm. But we shouldn't really look like that.

Christians should beam out the loveliness of the Lord Jesus. And when you become a Christian, he forgives your sins, he puts the Holy Spirit within your life, and you have life now. So that you live in two realms, you live in the material world, and you enjoy creation, and then you live in the kingdom of God, the spiritual world, and you enjoy God.

And so can you see, if you're going to have eternal life, you've got to have the essence of it now. The apostle said, the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

In other words, that gift is given to you right now. Now my dear friends, may I ask a question? Would you face up to this? I'm not going to ask you, are you religious? I'm not going to ask you, have you been christened?

I'm not going to ask you, have you been confirmed? I'm not going to even ask, have you been baptised by a merchant? I'm not going to ask you, break bread and take the communion or the sacrament. I'm not going to ask, are you a Sunday school teacher or an elder or a minister?

I'm going to ask one thing. Have you been genuinely born again of the Holy Spirit? If you have, you're ready for heaven. If you haven't, you're not ready. You see, we must have life now, before we can get it when we die.

The Appointment With Death and Judgment

And I trust you'll get that life tonight. Now what about the time of death? Now the scripture says in Hebrews chapter 9, and this is confirmed by the Lord Jesus in Luke 12, it's appointed unto man once to die and after this the judgement.

The fact of death is indisputable. The latest insurance figures tell us every time the clock ticks two, sometimes three people are dying. And if you're good at simple mathematics, that means a town of the size of 250 ,000 people go out of time into eternity every day.

And that means while I'm preaching and while the words are tumbling out of my mouth, scores of people are dying. It's a fact. Some people die in their infancy. Some people die in their early youth. Some people die in their early married life.

Some people die in their middle life. Some people die in the autumn of our life. But irrespective when we die or how we die, we all die. Now I have been assessing this congregation and here's the living fact of death.

And I believe I'm right. I would say 50 of this congregation in 20 years time will be Skellingtons. 50%. 20 years time if the law doesn't come, will be Skellingtons. That's the reality of death. Now do people face up to death?

Of course they do. That's why 25 of the people of Australia have a life insurance. Why do they take out a life insurance? Because they want to face up to death. But have you taken out an insurance for your soul?

The Origin and Meaning of Death

You see there's the point. And that's the preacher's job tonight. Now what is the cause of death? Now quite frankly whether you're a Christian or you're not a Christian, death is a terrible blow. I have met people who have never been able to get over bereavement.

And it's an awful shock when death comes. Now can this be of God? Well my dear friend, if it's of God, there's something wrong with God. Therefore the scripture makes it quite clear that the power of death is not God but the devil.

Now why? Well it was Satan that engineered the break between man and God. Just like you take a flower from your garden and you cut it from the stem and immediately you sever it from the stem, it begins to die.

So he severed the stem as it were from God. And when Satan engineered the fall of man by his deliberate disobedience, he became the engineer of death. But there's one thing that Satan cannot do. He is not the one that engineers the time of death.

That's God. And therefore God says it's appointed unto man once to die and after this the judgment. Now what does that mean? A man has an appointment with the doctor and he keeps it if he's wise. A lady has an appointment with a hairdresser and she will go at the time appointed.

Sometimes we have an appointment with the dentist and we sit in the chair waiting for him to operate upon our teeth. All these matters that I have raised are done through an appointment. Now God is going to have an appointment with us in death and we shall never dodge it.

You see we do not determine the moment of our death. God determines that moment. And therefore we want to see it like this. God holds every individual in the palm of his hand and he can snap the silver thread when he desires.

And it's appointed unto man once to die. That's why it's a foolish thing to argue with God. In the last analysis he will always win the battle. We shall never escape him because he is our creator. Now what about then the great fact of death?

The Human Person as Body, Soul, and Spirit

What happens after death? Now we cannot understand this until we understand the spiritual makeup of our body. Now isn't it sad? Sometimes a person can go into an antique shop and say that's a bargain.

Sometimes a lady will go into a dress shop and say my there's a bargain I'm having that. But when it comes to a human being valuing himself we seem to be almost imbeciles. We just can't value the worth of the human body.

Now God tells us that we are made in three, tripartite. And that means that man is body, his soul and spirit. Now I think I can prove that to you immediately. When you sit down and have a meal at night you are feeding the body.

Now you cannot deny that. That does not need an explanation. When you sit and listen to a lovely piece of music. When you watch a beautiful scene. As you engage with friendship with your wife and loved ones.

You're not feeding your body, you're feeding your soul. Therefore if you put a man within four balls and just fed his body for twenty years. That man could go start raving mad. You see you need something more than food.

You need something for your soul. I mean we're strange people. Your favourite colour may be black. My favourite colour may be blue. You might like fat things. I might like lean things. You see we're all different because man is a unique creature with a soul.

Wherever you go in the world you will find that man always has this propensity to worship. The Russians were very foolish in their atheistic ideas. And they tried to eradicate the idea that man has a spiritual content.

But this is what they discovered. When their people were passing through the embalmed bodies of Lenin and Marx and Stalin. They could see that there was more worship there than probably some of the western people who worship God.

And therefore they could see that in man there was this spiritual content that must worship. That's why the whole of communism and atheism is beginning to be exploded today. And thank God for it. And you can see all over the world whether it's primitive people that worship an idol.

There is something in man that has this spiritual content that must worship. Now once we can agree on the fact that man is body, soul and spirit. Then we must estimate him. And this is what the Lord Jesus said.

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul? That personality within your body is the very holy thing that makes you in the image and in the likeness of God. And that holy personality that you have is eternal.

And it cannot be annihilated. You might burn the body but you will never burn the soul. Now I know someone recently said a very foolish thing. A brilliant surgeon in my own country said this. That he had been operating on the human body and he had never discovered the soul.

Now how foolish can an intelligent man be? Where do you find love in the body? Where do you find peace in the body? Where do you find joy in the body? Where do you find meekness in the body? Where do you find temper in the body?

You see it's not there. And therefore it's ridiculous to imagine that you can look inside the body and say oh that's a piece of love. But it's absolutely essential to life and it makes up your personality.

And therefore we want to say clearly as the Bible teaches that man is body, his soul and his spirit. Now the body part of man is temperate. You are now, I am now actually dying on my feet. The soul of man is eternal.

And the spirit of man belongs to God. In a person that's not a Christian the spirit part of him is there but dead. In a Christian the spirit's been made alive by the operation of the new birth. And that links him with God.

Separation at Death and the Eternal Destinies

So then what happens when death comes? Now according to the scripture and please bear with me as I try to explain it. Death is not annihilation but it's an act of separation. And it simply means the soul and the spirit leave the body.

And when the soul and the spirit leave the body it goes into two spheres. If you're a Christian it goes direct into paradise and to be with Christ which is far better. If you're not a Christian you go straight into hell.

And that's the teaching of the Bible. I heard a beautiful story. A little girl was very close to her grandpa. And he was a very old man and he died. And she was allowed to go to the funeral. And she came back with lots of questions.

And she said to her mother, Where's grandad gone? Gone to heaven. Oh no. Those four men in black put him in the ground in the coffin. Ah, says the mother, that's the body of your grandad. But not the person who lived inside the body.

The little girl couldn't understand. And then she said, we're going to move house next week aren't we? Yes. Are you looking forward to it? I am. Will we move the house? Oh no. Who will move? Us in the house.

That's right, and all the furniture. Now she said, your grandad's body is like the house. And that's gone into the ground. And the person who lived in the house has gone to be with the Lord Jesus in heaven.

Oh, so he's moved, that's it. She says, but what happens to the house? She said. Oh dear, she said. Well, God made us from dust. And when she gets older, perhaps mother may call it the atom, made us from dust.

And we return to dust. She found that hard to explain. Well, she said, if you could see your grandad's body in 200 years, it could be just dust. Oh, she said. We came from dust. And we go to dust. Well, the body.

Well, you know what happens when you're moving, don't you? The carpets are all taken up. Well, this little girl was playing under mother's bed. And it wasn't too clean, obviously. And she came tearing down and she says, mummy, come upstairs quickly.

There's a man coming or going, I don't know which. There was so much dust there. But can you see the point, dear friends? You see, the person inside the house went to heaven. The body went into the earth.

Waiting for the second coming of Christ. And when Christ comes the second time, he's going to take the original atoms and he's going to make a completely new body so that that body with its soul and spirit can dwell forever in that sphere called heaven.

Paul's Triumph in the Face of Death

Whilst those who die without Christ will have a body of damnation that will be suitable for hell forever. And that's a tragedy. Now, what about the triumph of death? Now, when I was thinking about this, I thought, we'll go and see the Apostle Paul.

And what I want you to do, just for a few moments, is to try and recapture Paul's last manners. He was obviously one of the greatest Christians that ever lived. He evangelised a good part of the Roman world, saw thousands and thousands of people saved, and churches formed all over the Roman world.

And in the last few years of his life, he spent in prison. And the last nine months of his life, he was in that awful prison in Rome. He was one of Nero's prisoners. And that was a little bit of hell upon earth for the Apostle.

Now, we're going into this prison to see him, and I'm going to tell you a little about him. You will see a man who is about nearly 65, and he will look like a man 85. You will see the whole of his body mutilated for the cause of Christ.

And when you first see him, you will have a shock. Probably you will see some of the bones almost standing out of his body. And you're going to see an awful shock. And you will see him chained to two soldiers.

And we're going in the prison. The door is opened, and we walk in, and there he is. And we say, are you Paul the Apostle? I am. Are you aware in a few days' time you're going to be executed? I know. I'm aware.

Are you ready for death? Yes, I am. Now, why are you ready? I suppose you think you're ready because you have preached the gospel all over Europe. No, I'm not depending on that. Well, I suppose you're depending on the fact that you've been a remarkable man.

Oh, I'm not depending on that. Oh, I suppose you're depending upon the fact that you've led many people to become Christians. My, I'm not depending on that. Are you depending on the fact that you were baptized by that brilliant man Ananias?

Certainly not. Well, why are you sure? Shall I tell you? I am depending on two facts. Number one, I have allowed God to forgive me through the precious blood of Christ. We have redemption through his blood.

The forgiveness of sins. You're very emphatic. Of course I am. And I am depending upon the fact that I have been born again of the Holy Spirit by the grace of God. And it's Christ in me, the hope of glory.

And we look and we see the radiance of heaven in that scarred face. Christ in you, the hope of glory. And he would say with a chuckle, You see already in this prison I've got a good bit of heaven. But here, externally I'm in prison.

But in my heart I'm with the Lord in heaven. And he would say with holy joy, Christ in me, the hope of glory. And you would say to the soldiers, Gentlemen, is this so? Is it so? He's the happiest man on earth.

Through his witness we've all been converted. And we love him deeply. Two thirds of the imperial guard were converted. You see, they were chained to dynamite. To the Apostle Paul. And they couldn't get away.

So really, your readiness then Paul, doesn't depend on your good life. It doesn't depend on your religion. It doesn't depend on preaching. It depends on what Christ has done for you. Exactly. Are you depending on the precious blood?

Are you depending on the new birth? If you are, you can say I'm ready. Then we would say this to him. Now Paul, be honest. When the moment of your execution comes. And just five seconds before you're beheaded.

What will be your thoughts? Wonderful. And he would say something like this. And now I'm going to use the Greek imagery. Have you ever been to the Mediterranean ports? And have you ever seen those great sailing boats with their sails full of wind?

Yes. And they're being held to the jetty by these giant horses? Yes. And have you ever seen the captain giving the order for the horses to be released from the captains? Or the captains? Yes. And when they're released.

The boat hits the sea. Free. Liberated. To enjoy the breadth of the Mediterranean ocean. Yes. When old Nero severs my neck. The horses will be all released. I shall be out of the body. And I shall be at home with the Lord.

Released. The time of my departure. The time of my sailing away. Has come. Oh we are staggered. We've never heard anything like it. But then Paul. What will heaven be like? Well. We're going to be rewarded he would say.

And I'll tell you what heaven will be like. It's going to be a place of absolute perfection. I've written about it. When that which is perfect has come. What a state of absolute perfection. Absolute infinite perfection.

You see in heaven. We shall have perfect knowledge. I only have partial knowledge now. But I shall know God then like he knows me now. Knowing God. Like he knows you. Yes. Yes. I shan't be a child any longer.

I shall be absolutely matured. Anything else you can tell us? Oh yes. It will be a perfect environment. There will be not one tinge of sin there. Perfect environment. Yes. There will not be an evil spirit.

There will not be a bad word. There will not be the smallest sin. Nothing that defiles shall ever enter in. It will be a perfect environment. My that's marvellous. Anything else? Oh yes. We shall have perfect companionship.

You see in that day I shall be among the spirits of men shan't me perfect. And all my brothers there be no sisters because there be one sex there. One sex. We shall be like the angels. But we shall have perfect companionship.

My that's mind boggling. Ah but more than that. More than that. The environment will be pervaded with perfect love. And wherever we go it will be love. Love. Love. And then he would chuckle and say this.

I shan't take this old body to heaven. It will be a good thing when this body I know it's become the temple of the Holy Ghost is put in the ground. And I'm anticipating the moment when he will give me a new body.

So that I will be like the Lord Jesus Christ. A new body. Yes. He would argue. I'd work this out in 1 Corinthians 15 but I'll tell you. There's a body that's fit for the water. That's called a fish. There's a body that's suitable for the earth.

That's called the human body. An animal. There's a body that's for the air. That's the bird life. But we haven't got yet a body for heaven. You couldn't take this body in heaven. And I wouldn't want to take it there.

But he will give me a body of glory. To dwell in a sphere of glory forever. My. Heaven must be wonderful. More wonderful than you ever realize. But something more. What's that? And the tears would fill his eyes.

He wouldn't be able to speak. And he would say this. I'm going to see my Lord. And I'll see the marks in his hands. And I'll see my perfect Saviour. And in that day he will be omnipresent. There will never be a moment when I'm out of his presence.

I'm longing to see him. And then he would say this. You see young man. I've already had a glimpse of heaven. And I was told not to speak about the glory. I've got a foretaste. I'm longing to go. No wonder he could say.

For me to live is Christ. To die is gain. And now I'm going to speak to my brothers who are saved. Aren't you glad you're saved? Aren't you glad you're born again? Just think. You're ready because of his grace.

The Reality and Horror of Hell

But then. What about this awful place that's called hell? Now can I be as frank as possible? I would love to stop now. Now some of you will raise your eyebrows. But I will never become a hellfire preacher.

I preach it. I warn people. But tonight I will not be able to sleep. Every time I give a message on Satan or hell. I'm tormented all night. Because of the horrors of it. Now first of all I want to say this.

If we believe that Jesus Christ was the son of God. And if we believe in the evidence of the resurrection. Then Jesus Christ is infallible. And if Jesus Christ is infallible. His word must be infallible.

And if Jesus Christ warned us about hell. It must be there. It cannot be the invention of a bad mind. And therefore for preachers not to preach hell. Or even mention hell. Is a tragedy. For instance. A mother would not be a mother.

If she did not warn her children of dangerous roads. The authorities would have no love. If they did not warn you about dangerous traffic. A doctor wouldn't be a doctor. If he didn't warn you about health.

And the injuries of health. We are constantly warning people. Because we love them. And God warns us. Because of the reality of hell. And that's why we must mention it. And to eradicate it. Shows that you are a traitor to the cause of God.

And to the gospel. So we must mention it. But what happens. When a man dies without Christ. The moment he dies. According to the teaching of the Lord Jesus. He gets the biggest shock of all. When this rich man had all the physicians around his bed.

And no one could really save him from dying. The moment he died. There was a funeral. And probably they said lovely things about him in the synagogue. Because obviously he was religious. He was dressed in fine linen.

And that was the garments that they wore when they went into their synagogue. But the moment this man died. He had the biggest shock of all. Listen to these words. In hell. In hell. Listen to them again.

In hell. He must have said this. Oh God. Where am I? And he had the biggest shock. In eternity. You see he had lived as though God basically never existed. He had parties. He gave a few crumbs to the poor people to alleviate his conscience.

He had pleasure. He enjoyed life. He lived it up. He wasn't a vagabond. But he just lived to the exclusion of God. And I suppose he told his own self. Well there is nothing really after death. But when he moved out of his body.

He moved into eternity. And when he realised he was in an infinite yawning hell. He cried. Inexpressible. Friends can I explain it in Australia. A man comes from a beach in middle life. He sits down. He has a thrombosis.

Or a heart attack. And flash. He is taken. In hell. Oh God. Where am I? A business man is sitting with his colleagues. Around the board table. And they are discussing in millions. When suddenly something hits him.

He has a heart attack. And before they can get to him. His spirit is saying. Oh God. Millions like that. Millions are dying like that. And I believe someone in this hall. Could die like that. Very shortly.