Welcome to Truth for Life where we're beginning a new series called The Basics of the Christian Faith.

This is a foundational study that explores what it means to be a committed follower of the Lord Jesus.

And today we're going back into the archives

to hear Alistair Begg explain the answer

to the most important question any of us can ask,

How can I be saved?

He's teaching from the opening verses in Ephesians, Chapter 2.

The story came out of the Seoul Olympics in 88 that there were three men who had hoped to

get into the stadium in order to be spectators, a Scotsman and an Englishman and an Irishman.

They found themselves in South Korea without any ability to access the place. And so they were standing around outside the stadium,

and as a result of some of the construction that had been going on, there were areas of unfinished

building adjacent to the stadium.

And so the Englishman, and then by the name of Neville Atkinson, he looked across and saw a piece of piping,

which had been part of scaffolding of some nature, and he took this piece of piping.

He walked up to the front gate, and he said to the man,

Neville Edkinson, United Kingdom, Polvald.

And so the guy said, that's lovely.

He said, just come right in and go over there.

So the Irishman, Sean O'Leary, was intrigued by this

and began to scratch his head and looked around and found a manhole cover and grabbed that under his arms and walked up and said, Sean O'Leary, Ireland, Discus.

And the guy said, that's fine. He said, come right in.

So there was only the Scotsman left, Jack McTavish.

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