What is the very core of all our activity as believers?
The very core of all our activity as believers is the fact that we know He has died for us and has risen from the dead. This death, burial, and resurrection is where God's plan of salvation for Gentiles begins, not John the Baptist or Christ's earthly ministry.
Les teaches that the very core of all our activity is the fact that we know Christ died for us and rose from the dead. He explains that “henceforth” means from that point on, so the emphasis is not John the Baptist or Christ's earthly ministry but His death, burial, and resurrection. Les says this is where things really kick in gear for us Gentiles. He notes that all the way through the Old Testament God dealt with His covenant people under the Law, and the prophets wrote under the Law; but once the death, burial, and resurrection was revealed to us Gentiles as God's plan of salvation, that is where we have to start.
And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.