Slow to Speak - Quick to Listen

In this skit since Beulah has brought her pet sloth to class, she learns some of things the Bible says about being ‘slow’. For example, Moses described himself as being “slow of speech”, and God is described 7 times in the Bible as “merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love”. She also learns that we’re to be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to anger. Most importantly, she learns that Jesus is not being “slow” in returning but is giving more people an opportunity to accept His gift of salvation before His promised Second Coming.
Memory Verse:
Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry. (James 1:19 NLT)
Lessons Learned:
• Moses was a shepherd who was taking care of his father-in-law’s flock
• One day Moses noticed a bush that was on fire but wasn’t burned up, so he went closer to see it
• God spoke to Moses and told him to go and tell Pharoah to set the Israelites free
• Moses told God he was ‘slow of speech’
• Moses may have not been comfortable speaking the Egyptian and Hebrew languages because he had been living in Midian for 40 years
• Stephen described Moses as being “powerful in both speech and action” just before he was martyred in the Book of Acts
• The Book of Deuteronomy includes speeches that Moses made to the Israelites
• God told Moses that He had made man’s mouth and would help Moses speak to Pharoah
• God sent Moses’ brother, Aaron, who could speak well, to go with Moses when he went to speak to Pharoah
• 7 times the Bible describes God as “merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love”
• We should be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to get angry
• The Bible talks about not sleeping too much and being lazy
• The Bible calls being lazy “slothful”
• Jesus is not being “slow” in keeping His promise to return
Scripture References: (NKJV)
Exo 3:1 - Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law...
Exo 3:2-3 - ...Then Moses said, “I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn.”
Exo 3:10 - Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”
Exo 4:10 - Then Moses said to the LORD, “O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before nor since You have spoken to Your servant; but I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.”
Acts 7:22 - Moses was taught all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was powerful in both speech and action. (NLT)
Deut 1:1 - These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side of the Jordan in the wilderness,...
Deut 5:1 - And Moses called all Israel, and said to them: “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your hearing today, that you may learn them and be careful to observe them.
Deut 31:1 - Then Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel.
Exo 4:11-12 - ...Now therefore, go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall say.”
Exo 4:27 - And the LORD said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.”...
Exo 34:6 - ...a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, (ESV)
Neh 9:17 - ...But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them. (ESV)
Psalm 86:15 - But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. (ESV)
Psalm 103:8 - The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. (ESV)
Psalm 145:8 - The LORD is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. (ESV)
Joel 2:13 - ... for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster. (ESV)
Jonah 4:2 - ...for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster. (ESV)
James 1:19- Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; (ESV)
Prov 26:14 - As a door turns on its hinges, So does the lazy man on his bed.
Prov 19:15 - Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger. (ESV)
Eccl 10:18 - Through sloth the roof sinks in, and through indolence the house leaks. (ESV)
2 Peter 3:9 - The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. (ESV)
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