Dan A. Rodriguez Articles, Books, and Podcasts

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I want to make easily available to you on this post some of my most downloaded books, messages, and articles. My podcast timeline will not show posts without a recording, so I included a recorded message with the title, "Why Everyone Needs Jesus". Everything is free of charge. My sowing into lives or giving freely as I have freely received. 
My most downloaded book so far is in Spanish with almost 800 downloads: Tres Días y Noches en el Corazón de La Tierra and it has almost 300 pages.  
Other books:
A Call to Return: Restoring the Roots of Our Relationship with Jesus
Faith That Receives the Grace of God  
(More than 150 downloads)
Most Downloaded messages:
How To Receive the Baptism in The Holy Spirit (with other tongues)
(Close to 200 downloads.)
Como Recibir el Bautismo en el Espiritu Santo (y otras lenguas)
Faith in Jesus or is it Faith in Something Else? Almost 11.4k downloads! By far, our most downloaded message! These are real downloads and not a fluke or a glitch! The number of downloads is on the page, and Podbean podcast service confirmed them as real downloads. I was shocked and overwhelmed! May MANY come to the knowledge and reality of the Lord Jesus as Savior, Healer, Deliverer, Baptizer in the Holy Spirit, and all He is in the people from 129 countries (6 continents) that downloaded this message!
62 Page mini book that goes to the Word mainly in the New Testament in context to show the truth about this  important subject:
Did God "X" out All the Commandments under Grace?
Same subject matter as previous but in Spanish, and it has been downloaded hundreds of times:
La Diferencia Entre Mandamientos Morales y Rituales y La Responsabilidad del Creyente Conforme a La Epístolas Apostólicas
There are others but this will be good for now. 
Blessings on all of you in the mighty Name of Jesus!
 

Part 4: Faith in Jesus, or is it Faith in Something else?

 
 
Are you righteous in Christ no matter how much you sin? Some would stand firm by the assertion that no matter how much sin permeates your life after conversion, that once you receive righteousness, you are always and forever righteous. Of course, they have reason to believe that way based on some very important verses. Here are some of them:
Whom God put forward [before the eyes of all] as a mercy seat and propitiation by His blood [the cleansing and life-giving sacrifice of atonement and reconciliation, to be received] through faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in His divine forbearance He had passed over and ignored former sins without punishment.It was to demonstrate and prove at the present time (in the now season) that He Himself is righteous and that He justifies and accepts as righteous him who has [true] faith in Jesus (Romans 3:24, 25 Amplified Bible).
For if because of one man’s trespass (lapse, offense) death reigned through that one, much more surely will those who receive [God’s] overflowing grace (unmerited favor) and the free gift of righteousness [putting them into right standing with Himself] reign as kings in life through the one Man Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One)(Romans 5:17 Amplified Bible).
For our sake He made Christ [virtually] to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in and through Him we might become [endued with, viewed as being in, and examples of] the righteousness of God [what we ought to be, approved and acceptable and in right relationship with Him, by His goodness] (2 Corinthians 5:21 Amplified Bible). 
When we come to Jesus, make Him our Lord, and are born again, we are made pure and righteousness from all our past sins. We begin the Christian life with a clean slate! The Lord “passed over and ignored former sins without punishment.” Glory to God! Clean, sanctified, and made righteous in the blood! That is the truth about being born again!
Here is a question for you. Though that is the absolute truth, does that mean that you can practice sin like the world as a Christian and continue to be righteous before God? If it’s true that regardless of your sins you continue in righteousness, then what do you do with the following verses?
Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Jesus is righteous. The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning(1 John 3:7, 8 NET).
If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by Him (1 John 2:29 NET). 
But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness(1 John 1:9 NET).  
If once you are righteous you can never step out of that righteousness through sin, then why must you confess your sins if you commit them? Why must the one who commits sin be cleansed from unrighteousness if once righteous always righteous? 
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals, thieves, the greedy, drunkards, the verbally abusive, and swindlers will not inherit the kingdom of God (1 Corinthians 6:9, 10 NET). 
If a Christian practices unrighteousness and does not repent and confess their sins, will he or she inherit the kingdom of God? Did you know Paul refers to things that will disqualify a person from their inheritance in the kingdom of God? 
That is the other side of the righteousness theme in the Bible. Did you note that I haven’t quoted one verse from the Old Testament yet? This is NEW Testament, but it is also found throughout the Old Testament.
Can your spirit be contaminated by sin AFTER you become a follower of Jesus? Some believe that if you sin it is only the “flesh” and that it does not pollute the spirit. If that were true, then why did Paul say the following to the Corinthian church and include Himself in the equation?
Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that could defile the body and the spirit, and thus accomplish holiness out of reverence for God(2 Corinthians 7:1 NET). 
These are truths generally denied or overlooked by many in evangelical Christianity.
Here is the truth. When you come to Jesus, you were made righteous by His blood. After you are a believer, if you sin and do not repent and confess your sins to God, then your righteous standing with God is interrupted UNTIL you act on 1 John 1:9. Doing First John 1:9 is how you are cleansed from all the unrighteousness you did and then your righteousness is restored. 
I know this is a one-two punch against many erroneous and traditional ideas. I am happy to do it because these have been entrenched in our thinking for far too long. It has robbed many Christians from pursuing righteousness in all they do. That is another good point. Why pursue righteousness if you are already righteous forever with no possibility of messing it up through sin? Why did Paul tell Christians to pursue (run hard after) righteousness if righteousness can never be forfeited? See 1 Timothy 6:11; 2 Timothy 2:22. 
This podcast will begin to set the record straight in these areas.
Be blessed! 
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Get it as an ebook, softcover, or hardcover book from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Christianbook, Westbow Press, or order it through your favorite bookstore.From the Back Cover:
A Call to Return—Restoring the Roots of Our Relationship with Jesus explores the depths of the Scriptures to excavate, refine, and lift up its words of power, revealing deep truths that will radically change the lives of believers. By tapping into this rich vein of biblical insight, Dan Alan Rodriguez offers Christians the insights to enable them to set out upon paths of discipleship that follow Jesus closely and that lead to profound experiences of His presence and power.
Drawing upon the author’s study of first-century Judaism and Christianity and resting upon a diverse array of sources steeped in the foundational texts of these traditions, the twelve chapters of A Call to Return address a series of interlocking topics: a prophetic call to return; the revival of lawlessness; the revival, purpose, and preexistence of God’s commandments; the church’s commandments and their connections to faith, grace, and good works; the association of works of the law to Jewish tradition and ceremony; holiness; the fear of the Lord; each believer as a temple of the holy; and the meaning of loving the Lord Jesus.
If you have a sense that Jesus’s message and ministry are calling you to embark upon a walk with Him that might take you away from all in Christianity that requires no accountability or responsibility before God, then A Call to Return—Restoring the Roots of Our Relationship with Jesus is the right book for you to read. It will give you the keys for understanding and responding to the Lord’s call to return to Him and to follow where He leads.
“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches” (Rev. 2:29 NASB).
The PDF of the entire book is free of charge! Use this link to go to the page and download it. Be mightily blessed!
 
Documento portátil (PDF) es completamente gratis.
 
 

Part 37 The Story Of Our Great Redemption: The Birthing of Jesus from the dead

This is the last podcast in this series of 37 on this magnificent subject. No subject in the Scripture is more important than seeing what Jesus actually did for us through His great and awesome sacrifice. That is why when I saw I missed the final two podcasts in this series that I interrupted the series we started recently that got more downloads than at any other time in the history of these podcasts! These last two podcasts were extremely important to "clinch the nail on the back of the board" of these 37 podcasts on redemption. 
Did you know the Bible calls the resurrection of Jesus from the dead a birthing from the dead, not to be confused with the virgin birth of Jesus in Bethlehem? We discuss this under a really precious anointing of the Holy Spirit together with the Word of God. Be blessed!
 
Listen to the whole series if you have questions. Download the book free of charge below. 
 
THE STORY OF OUR GREAT REDEMPTION is the greatest story ever told! This book will open your eyes to what Jesus did for us to depths seldom tread by Christians, pastors, and ministers. Jesus was and is the greatest hero ever born! All other man-made heroes pale in comparison. It is sad that so many try to draw parallels between Jesus and , for example, the fictional character Superman. The truths about Jesus' sacrifice make the Superman fiction look like child's play. Brace yourself for Biblical truths that your pastor probably never taught you. I promise you, that if you will receive the Word on this mighty subject in this book, it will be transformational.  
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/ew2qp7/The_Story_of_our_Great_Redemption.pdf
Be extraordinarily and powerfully blessed!

Part 36 The Story of our Great Redemption: Justified in the Spirit!

This is one for the "books" in eternity! It will either curl your hair or straighten it! It is goose-bump and fire from heaven territory! If you can listen to this podcast and stay the same, then you need to be raised from the dead!
Jesus was justified in the Spirit according to the Scripture and God called His own son, God, when He raised Him from the dead out of hell. Never heard of that before? We explore it by the Word (and not by personal opinion) in this podcast.
Remember that this is part 36 of a 37 part series on the Story of Our Great Redemption. Listen to the whole series if you have questions. Download the book free of charge below. 
 
THE STORY OF OUR GREAT REDEMPTION is the greatest story ever told! This book will open your eyes to what Jesus did for us to depths seldom tread by Christians, pastors, and ministers. Jesus was and is the greatest hero ever born! All other man-made heroes pale in comparison. It is sad that so many try to draw parallels between Jesus and , for example, the fictional character Superman. The truths about Jesus' sacrifice make the Superman fiction look like child's play. Brace yourself for Biblical truths that your pastor probably never taught you. I promise you, that if you will receive the Word on this mighty subject in this book, it will be transformational.  
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/ew2qp7/The_Story_of_our_Great_Redemption.pdf
Be extraordinarily and powerfully blessed!

Part 3: Faith in Jesus, or is it Faith in Something else?

Are you self-deceived? I hope that you are not. No, I did not ask you if you are deceived. I asked you about self-deception. It is one thing to be deceived by the enemy, and some are, but it is another thing to deceive your self!
Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves (James 1:22 MEV).
Self-deception is the result of hearing the Word and not doing it. You heard a good Bible message, for example, concerning generosity and honoring God with the tithe, said amen and “glory hallelujah,” and then did nothing to obey the Scripture. That, my friend, is self-deception. You go to church, hear good Bible teaching, take reams of notes, and don’t do any of it. The next verses in James reveal that only the doers are blessed.
But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in his deeds (James 1:25 MEV).
What a great way to refer to God’s eternal Word: THE LAW OF LIBERTY! It works ALWAYS and for all because it is law that brings liberty to the doer of it. Wow!
Here is where I get back to our subject matter in these podcasts. 
Test yourselves to make sure you are solid in the faith. Don’t drift along taking everything for granted. Give yourselves regular checkups. You need firsthand evidence, not mere hearsay, that Jesus Christ is in you. Test it out. If you fail the test, do something about it (2 Corinthians 13:5 The Message). 
Self-examination or self-testing reveals where you stopped doing what God said in His Word. That is what is so critical about testing yourself to see whether you are in the faith. It brings conviction, exposition, reproving, and even rebuke so there can be correction to self-deception.
I trust that this is a word from the Lord for you in due season. Be blessed with Part 3 of these messages.
 

Part 2: Faith in Jesus, or is it Faith in Something else?

Part 2: Put yourselves to the test to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize regarding yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you—unless, indeed, you fail the test! (2ndCorinthians 13:5 NET) 
Examining yourself under a spiritual magnifying glass may not be as fun as shouting and praising God, but it is absolutely necessary as part of the devoted Christian life. 
The test and examination of yourself is to clearly see if you are in the faith, genuinely (truthfully and honestly), and by fruit production. What does that mean?
What did Paul mean when he stated this examination was to be about whether or not we are in the faith of the Lord Jesus? The good news is we do not have to guess. 
But some days later Felix arrived with Drusilla, his wife who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul and heard him speak about faith in Christ Jesus.  But as he was discussing righteousness, self-control and the judgment to come, Felix became frightened and said, “Go away for the present, and when I find time I will summon you.”(Acts 24:24, 25 NASB)
Paul explained “faith in Christ” to Felix and Drusilla as: righteousness, self-control, and judgment to come. It made Felix shake and tremble. It’s time for people to shake and tremble by the power of the Holy Spirit as we minister faith in Christ Jesus as Paul did. 
Jesus said the Holy Spirit was sent to convict concerning those things.   
And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment (John 16:8).
We begin to look at these closely. These are powerful and revealing, and they are the very definition of faith in Christ. Faith in Christ is to include righteousness, self-control, and judgment to come, or it is something else. I don’t mean that every message preached or taught has to be specifically about these three subjects, but there needs to be an underlying current of truth in each message. We should never relegate to a backburner righteousness, self-control, or judgment to come. 
I understand how foreign that sounds to our ears today because much of the modern church has gone after fluff and cotton candy preaching that RARELY mentions or teaches anything concerning these subjects. Yet, it is precisely what the Holy Spirit was sent to minister through the Church.
I will tell you this in advance. Each of those three things mentioned by Paul are vast in scope. You could probably preach on each one until Jesus returns and never run out. For example, did you know righteousness includes ALL Jesus provided for you and me through His awesome and mighty sacrifice? Righteousness includes every benefit of redemption, but did you know it also includes our moral behavior?  
So, are you ready to be challenged and “rudely” interrupted from the traditions of men? Here is part 2!
 

Part 1: Faith in Jesus, or is it Faith in Something else?

 
 
 
If anyone thinks I was exaggerating or lying about the podcast increase last November, my stats on this particular message, and the stats I published by letter about it are all there and still available. Podbean doesn't erase them, and I still have copies of the emails I sent. I was more shocked than anybody by 11.4 thousand downloads from 6 continents (129 countries) in a 3 day period! It was unprecedented for me. I've never had something like that happen before. You would think everybody would rejoice over it, but some didn't seem to rejoice much. Go figure! Some may have thought I was "evangelistically" exaggerating (lying) about the numbers. No, it was all true and you can verify the podcast stat on this page that it happened. Note the little numbers for downloads below the title- 11.4k. The stats are legit. They don't lie. Why and how that happened is another story, one I did not have anything to do with. 
 
In Part One, we look at a verse not mentioned often enough in many Christian circles, yet it was penned by the Paul, the apostle, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit: 
Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves [not Christ]. Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected? (2ndCorinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible)        
When was the last time you examined yourself? Did you run a test on yourself? What did the honest and brutal evaluation bring back? Was the evaluation, “I am holding firm to my faith in Christ Jesus, or am I slipping, need to repent, and get it right before God? Do you realize and know that Jesus is in you, or have you become a counterfeit Christian?
We have counterfeits today. They talk a good talk and have learned the language of faith. Others are impressed, but is God impressed? Is God actually pleased with your faith? (See Hebrews 11:6.)
Read it again from a more concise translation.
Put yourselves to the test to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize regarding yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you—unless, indeed, you fail the test! (2ndCorinthians 13:5 NET)
To get what Paul means by being “in the faith” we must see the context. 
Get ready for traditional ideas to be shattered. If you want to stay the same, and be the same as you have always been in dead religion, then don’t listen to these messages. Run! If you want more of God and His Spirit, then listen up, and get ready to be obedient to the Lord and His Word of life.
This is life-changing Word for you today. No fluff or cotton candy here! Just the meat of the Word!
 

Redemption from the Curse and What that Means for you Today- Part 3

The earth groans until the day this curse is removed. (Romans 8:21, 22)
When death and Hades are finally removed from all contact with human beings (Revelation 20:14) there will no longer be any more pain, weeping, or death (21:4), and no more curse (Revelation22:3). Hallelujah!
All of this brings us to some important conclusions that we will study in today's podcast:
(1.) The curse cannot be God's will because, if it is His will, then why remove it? 
(2.) The curse cannot be God's will because Jesus Christ redeemed us from it. (Galatians 3:13) Jesus came not to redeem us from something God was doing but from something the devil was doing. (1 John 3:8, Hebrews 2:14). Death is the enemy of God, of the earth, and of us (1 Cor. 15:26, 27). That is why it will finally and for eternity be removed from all contact with the new heavens and new earth and human beings. 
(3.) The curse was the direct result of disobedience to God's commandment. It is associated with sin, disobedience, and rebellion. It is not for the righteous or those who serve God. The curse is removed from the Godly and obedient (as they take a stand in faith on their redemption), and the curse has free reign upon the ungodly and disobedient. See Deuteronomy 28:1-3, an 15ff.
(4) This leads us to the conclusion that the curse cannot be God's work.
The devil is the murderer from the beginning (John 8:44). Death was under the devil’s rule. (Hebrews 2:14). He is THE THIEF (John10:10). The devil is the killer. These curses cannot be God. Hurting, killing, and destroying are the enemy's work. It cannot be God who robs or steals. That would be a violation of His own commandment: "Do not steal."
The destroyer and the exterminator are not God. (Revelation 9:11, 6:8) Notice in those Scriptures that hell follows death VERY closely. They are part of each other. They are inseparable. If you say "death" you talk about the work of hell. If you say "hell" you talk about the work of death.
If God were the killer and destroyer, then why did not Paul instruct the church of Corinth to turn over to God the man caught in adultery and incest? Instead, Paul orders them to turn the adulterous/incestuous man over to Satan for the destruction of his flesh! (1 Corinthians 5:5)
How readest thou?
How come Jesus never put the curse of sickness on anybody? Did you notice that? He never made anyone sick for the glory of God either! Everybody He healed was oppressed by the devil! 
God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and He went about doing good and healing ALL that were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him. (Acts 10:38)
Out of the multiplied thousands He healed during His ministry, none were afflicted by God! Not one time did Jesus turn to one and say, "Look, I can't heal you because God made you sick!" NEVER!