What are the three parts of the gospel that Les identifies in this passage?
The gospel has three parts: Christ died for our sins, He was buried, and He arose again from the dead. These three are the gospel message, and believers spiritually experience them as dying, being buried, and arising in newness of life through faith.
Les teaches that the gospel is the same message he identifies in Romans 6: Christ died for our sins, was buried, and rose again from the dead. He connects this to baptism into Jesus Christ, explaining that the Holy Spirit baptized, inundated, or engulfed believers into the body of Christ and into His death. Spiritually, in the mind of God and by faith, believers died with Christ, were buried with Him, and arose from the grave in newness of life.