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Upper Room Christian Assembly
by William Trudeau
The Teaching Ministry of The Upper Room Christian Assembly
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Roots of Righteousness – 003
The Form of Sound Words Catechetical Preaching is an honored tradition stretching back to the Apostolic era. Paul exhorts Timothy to hold fast to the “form of sounds words” (2 Tim 1:13). Hebrews 5:12 speaks of the “first principles of the oracles of God.” The Puritan worthy, Thomas Watson,...
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Roots of Righteousness – 002
Introduction – 02 – Of Fruits and Roots Why catechize God’s sheep? Because the Word must be “sounded down” into our souls before roots can be sent down into the ground of God’s grace. Good preaching is like a rooting hormone, it stimulates the growth of roots of righteousness (Prov 12:12) which...
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Roots of Righteousness – 001
Introduction – 01 – Explanation of the Concept of a Catechism The Upper Room Christian Assembly Catechism (URCAC) project is introduced in this study. The essence of good catechizing is but the exercise of a minister’s God-given duty to “sound down” the Word of God – to echo the Voice of heaven…
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The Behaviour of Christ’s Body – 06
Sobriety for All #3 This study concludes the Topic: Sobriety for All - an exhortation addressed primarily to our older brothers and then to every Christian. Private and Public Prohibition are duties enjoined by Holy Scripture which pronounces judgments against those who ingest intoxication as…
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Every Good Thing That Is In You
Every Good Thing That Is In You The concept of a Christian or a Christian Community encountering an unsolvable problem is a contradiction in terms because in Jesus are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge (Col 2:3) and we are complete in Him (Col 2:10). Paul’s remarkable letter to his...
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The Behaviour of Christ’s Body - 05
Sobriety for All #2 Our older Christian Brothers remain the focus in this study. Paul’s directive to Timothy regarding the use of a little wine [οἴνῳ ὀλίγῳ] implies Paul’s confidence in Timothy’s commitment to moderation. Christian liberty must not become a license for excess. We count on our…
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The Promise of the Father and the Faith of the Saints
Acts 1:4–5 And, [Jesus] being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. 5 For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days...
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The Behaviour of Christ’s Body – 04
Sobriety for All #1 Older men are the first of six classes of Christians whom Paul instructs Timothy to exhort as to the critical qualities of their character. The need for sobriety emerges as the core discipline upon which their entire Christian testimony is to be built. When the remaining 5...
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The Behaviour of Christ’s Body - 03
Without Spot or Wrinkle Imagine a Body of Believers (a Christian Church) so serious about their calling to be witnesses for Jesus that not a one of them defiles their garment (Zech 3:3-4 w/ Rev 3:4). That would indeed be a glorious church without spot or wrinkle (Eph 5:25-27). Without question…
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The Power To Be Able To Stand
Robert (Bobby) C. Freeman (1955-2013) served our Lord for over 30 years as the pastor of the Sand Hill Bible Church in Auburn, AL. Brother Bobby is now in the presence of his Master, but his life and message continue to impact those with ears to hear, eyes to see, and hearts to understand. As Job...
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Making Repentance Clear - 05
Clarifying Our Commitments The last of five primary principles of Biblical Repentance is presented in this study, namely: Biblical Repentance Clarifies our Commitments. A clear pattern is present in the experiences of repentance found in Daniel 9, Psalm 51, Psalm 69, 2 Samuel 24, Joshua 7; James...
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Making Repentance Clear - 04
Turn Toward the Truth The 4th of 5 primary principles on clear repentance is presented in this study drawn from Daniel 9:11-14. Daniel identifies the active aspect of Israel’s sin; namely, departing from the voice of God or turning from the Truth. The remedy, therefore, is nothing short of…
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Making Repentance Clear - 03
Who Owes Who? This study investigates the 3rd of 5 principles drawn from Daniel’s portrayal of clear repentance as described in Daniel 9:7-10. Daniel’s relationship with God included a clear understanding of what belongs to God and what belongs to sinful men. Unlike Esau, who mourned his loss but...
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Making Repentance Clear - 02
Daniel’s Display of Clear Repentance This study presents the first two of five primary principles drawn from the display of clear repentance detailed in the ninth chapter of Daniel’s book. The first two principles are the following: Biblical Repentance Understands BY THE BOOKS the Characteristics...
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Making Repentance Clear - 01
Repentance Unto Salvation Repentance is a first principle or elementary doctrine of the Christian Faith (Heb 6:1). Indeed, entrance into the Christian life is impossible apart from repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 20:21; 2:28). Beyond this, Scripture makes it…
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The Behaviour of Christ’s Body – 02
Adorning the Gospel in All Things Titus 1:5 (NKJV) — For this reason I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking, and appoint elders in every city as I commanded you— “…Titus is to teach them ‘what is in accord with sound doctrine’ (v. 1). We infer from this that...
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The Behaviour of Christ’s Body – 01
Christ The Human and The Head Hebrews 10:5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: During His Incarnation, Jesus went about doing only good in every facet of His life. “The whole story of his life was nothing...
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Remembering That God Remembers
The historic events that culminated in Jesus’ crucifixion, burial, resurrection, and ascension are in the past, but the resulting Covenant is eternally relevant. The Communion Ordinance calls upon us to observe this relevance by remembering the New Covenant ratified in Jesus’ blood. Jesus gives a...
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The King of Glory – 04
The Categorical Declaration Versus The Categorical Denial – 03 The common trope of a Christian Bible riddled with the relics of religious myths leading its adherents into an unscientific stance toward reality is more of a projection than it is a perception. It turns out that atheistic…
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The King of Glory – 03
The Categorical Declaration Versus The Categorical Denial – 02 The Modern Myth Movement is one of many assaults directed against the Word of God. Under the guise of a neutral scientific method, satanic science has made its way from the Gentile courts into the holy places where Revelation once...
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The King of Glory – 02
The Categorical Declaration Versus The Categorical Denial – 01 Major historical events such as the Entrance of Sin, the Redemptive Work of Jesus, and the Sending of the Holy Spirit are not included in Psalm Twenty-Four’s sweeping survey of Redemptive History. We will call this phenomenon, Event...
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The King of Glory – 01
The Outline A sweeping survey of salvation history is sung in Psalm 24, providing the student of Scripture with an outline of God’s plan from Creation, through Confusion, and unto Coronation. Following the entrance of sin, the Genesis Account moves to the Temple Account on its way to the Kingdom...
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Calling All Timothys
“I am growing old myself, but there are few things I remember so well as the days of my youth. I have a most distinct recollection of the joys and the sorrows, the hopes and the fears, the temptations and the difficulties, the mistaken judgments and the misplaced affections, the errors, and the...
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Remembering Brokenness – Anticipating Glory
This Communion study explores the application of Jesus’ injunction to Remember Him when we partake of the bread and cup. Certainly, Jesus is a worthy “end point” of the remembering exercise. The believer does well to focus exclusively on the great acts of redemption that Jesus accomplished. But…
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Looking For Unity – 14
Out-of-Balance or Out-of-Bounds – 04 Some churches, ministries, and individuals are to be marked and avoided (Rom 16:17): the demonstrably False, the mere Formalists, and the Frozen. They are out-of-bounds. Others are out-of-balance. They too are to be noted, but as the relatively week and for…
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Looking For Unity – 13
Out-of-Balance or Out-of-Bounds – 03 The ancient motto: “In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity" reflects the admonition of Jesus found in Matthew 23:23-24. Demanding the mint tithe while failing to weigh out the importance of mercy is to strain at a gnat while...
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Looking For Unity – 12
Out-of-Balance or Out-of-Bounds – 02 Apollos – A Case Study The distance of history provides a buffer from the immediate pressures of real-time and allows us to consider a challenging situation less passionately than we might if the circumstances were right in front of us. That is the value of an...
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Looking For Unity – 11
Out-of-Balance or Out-of-Bounds – 01 In this Age of Fallenness, nearly everything is out-of-balance until it is brought to equilibrium through the redemptive power of Jesus Christ. Church History is too often the story of unbalanced responses to existential imbalance – an overreaction against…
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Looking For Unity – 10
How Does It Flow? – 03 While teaching in the women’s court of the Temple, Jesus is confronted by Scribes and Pharisees with a woman in tow. They reduce her to a prop to prove that the Friend of Publicans and Sinners could not be a man of God. But their dark intentions are no match for the Light…
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Looking For Unity – 09
How Does It Flow? – 02 The Knights of the Golden Rule, leading the charge by voice and volition against the powers of darkness, have often turned out to be Irreligious Reformers. Consequently, the “reformation” turns out to be a deformation which tends to harm more than it heals. Wherever the...
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Looking For Unity – 08
How Does It Flow? – 01 Should the Christians of our time be admonished by a “poet of their own” in a similar way as were the Cretans in the Apostle Paul’s day (Titus 1:12)? The poet Robert Frost probed the purpose behind the prevalence of walls which separate humans from one another. His New...
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Looking For Unity – 07
What is it Like? The Two Similes – 04 If Ecclesiology was thought through as a subcategory of Theology rather than Anthropology, the debate over bottom-up verses top-down church growth and government theories would be recognized as irrelevant. For Theology settles the issue: any method that…
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Looking For Unity – 06
What is it Like? The Two Similes – 03 This study, at the direction of Psalm 133:3, steps back and begins to consider the teaching toward unity that flows from Mount Hermon. In doing so, we discover that Hermon illustrates through creation what Aaron communicates through covenant. Namely, the...
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Looking For Unity – 05
What is it Like? The Two Similes – 02 What does oil running down the head and beard of Aaron the high priest have to do with unity? If your answer is, “Nothing really, who needs the high priest, let alone his head and beard!? Our modern age is more illuminated than David. We understand that unity...
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Looking For Unity – 04
What is it Like? The Two Similes – 01 This study begins to examine the similes in verses 2 and 3 of Psalm 133. When the key to spiritual understanding unlocks the lessons of these verses, we walk through the Simile Gates and enter the sacred path leading to beautiful, biblical, brotherly unity....
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Looking For Unity – 03
What is it Like? Seduction can be defined as energetic immorality: a moving of the heart in the sphere of moral indifference. Seduction does not lack the beautiful; indeed, it requires the beautiful. What it lacks is the moral. The Religion of the Great Whore (Revelation 17) spreads itself upon…
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Looking For Unity – 02
Looking For Unity – 02 What is it Like? The Apostle Paul understood the power of the Psalms to accomplish God’s work, so he wrote the following to his Brethren in Colossae: Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and...
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Looking For Unity - 01
Behold the Beauty Psalm 133 is a well-known text in our common faith, but it is no “common seed”. If it is familiar, then it is all the more prepared to work its power into an uncommon heart. An unusual sight kindled in the heart of David a desire to beckon others to that which had so moved his…
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Dynamic Remembrance - Points of Participation
The ordinance of the communion of the bread and cup was established in an upper room somewhere in the environs of Jerusalem on the 14th of the Jewish month Nisan about the year 30 A.D. while Jesus celebrated the Passover with His disciples prior to His crucifixion. But on this august occasion, at...
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John 17 - Sanctifying Saints for Service - Good Things to Come
Robert (Bobby) C. Freeman (1955-2013) preached the following message on a Wednesday evening in 2010 while serving the Lord (for over 30 years) as the pastor of the Sand Hill Bible Church in Auburn, AL. God’s servant Bobby is now in the presence of his Master, but his life and message continue to...
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Matthew 10 - Twelve On A Trial Trip - 04
A Tricky Text - Part 4 Jesus’ description of Missionary Conflict, as recorded in Matthew 10:17-23, clearly exceeded the actual experiences that the Twelve encountered on this their first Apostolic Trial Trip. Obviously, Jesus knew this was the case. Albert Schweitzer’s interpretation makes a...
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Matthew 10 - Twelve On A Trial Trip - 03
A Tricky Text - Part 3 This study drives a wedge between Albert Schweitzer's cynical “literal” lid, which restricts the meaning of Jesus' words into a shallow box, and the genuine meaning of the text. What Schweitzer claims is nothing more than "plain words" is actually a profound discourse…
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Matthew 10 - Twelve On A Trial Trip - 02
A Tricky Text - Part 2 Albert Schweitzer, Johannes Weiss, and others of the Consistent Eschatology School seize on Jesus’ statement recorded in Matthew 10:23 and argue that Jesus thought the dawn of the Kingdom would come before the Twelve finished a hasty journey through the cities of Israel in…
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Matthew 10 - Twelve On A Trial Trip - 01
A Tricky Text - Part 1 Jesus calls twelve men from among His disciples and commissions them into a training exercise — a Trial Trip — in order to prepare them for their apostolic labors, which will be entered into in earnest following Jesus' ascension. Some of what Jesus said on that occasion...
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Content To Be A Christian - 03
Content To Be A Christian - Part 3 - Final Exhortations Four key considerations conclude this study of 1 Tim 6. Contentment Comes Through Crucifying Cravings - 1 Tim 6:9-10 Be Content To Contend For The Faith - 1 Tim 6:11-12 Be Content To Confess Christ - 1 Tim 6:13-16 Be Content To Be Charged…
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Content To Be A Christian - 02
Content To Be A Christian - Part 2 The Lord of Glory set the standard of Christian godliness when He released His rights to the riches of His regal standing. In His commitment to faithful Sonship, Jesus allowed Himself to be stripped of virtually every external indication of Divine favor to the...
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Content To Be A Christian - 01
Content To Be A Christian - Part 1 Among the riches of wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, which Paul directs Timothy to defend, is the peaceful truth that godliness with contentment is true wealth (1 Tim 6:6). This value stands in opposition to the epistemologically greedy...
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Joining Joseph’s Journey – 005
Facing Fear and Standing Firm We rejoice to behold God’s grace developing devotion in Abraham’s life as God draws him into deeper divinity. Prov 9:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: And the knowledge of the holy is understanding. Clearly a deeper “knowledge of the Holy” was...
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Joining Joseph’s Journey – 004
Facing Famine and Fleeing – Part 2 This study continues the investigation we began in last Sunday's teaching: Facing Famine and Fleeing - Part 1 Abraham's response to the initial trial of his faith upon entering the Promise Land initiates an impulse which will plague the history of Israel…
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Joining Joseph’s Journey – 003
Facing Famine and Fleeing – Part 1 Abraham, the great grandfather of Joseph, lived a remarkable life. Indeed, the apostle Paul exhorts the believer to walk in the steps of the faith of Abraham (Rom 4:12). But were all of Abraham’s steps clearly steps of faith? Did Abraham ever fumble, fail, or...
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