Welcome to part two with Dr. Tyler Griffin, first Nephi 16 through 22.

Tyler, the ship is built and we add some new characters to our story.

Jacob and Joseph that first Nephi 8. add some new characters to our story,

Jacob and Joseph, that first Nephi 18 verse 7.

Yeah, we get some younger brothers and Jacob particularly

he's gonna have a pretty critical role to play in our Book of Mormon down the road,

one of our great scriptural doctrinaires ever. He's amazing. I think it's fascinating this leap of faith

as they all get on the ship, launch out into the deep, and if we're not

careful we'll put all the emphasis on Nephi being a disciple and putting emphasis on his ship. But it's really about our

discipleship of being willing to launch into the deep towards our promised land that

kind of getting in the boat with Christ that analogy is

beautiful of entering the covenant path or coming into the church there's going to

be some stormy seas ahead there's going to be some stormy seas ahead. There's going to be some struggle as we navigate this path forward and it doesn't take long.

Verse 9, you're introduced to his brothers making themselves merry and dancing and singing with much rudeness and he tries to stop them.

And I don't know about you too, but I find it fascinating that in the early chapters of First

Nephi, especially chapter two and three and four,

Lehi is able to pretty much force Lehman and Lemuel to do whatever Lehi

wants them to do. He's able to compel them. Their frames did shake

exceedingly because he had commanded them to go into the wilderness and they go. They're obedient. They do it.

And now eight years later they've done all of the things that they were commanded to do but they did it for the wrong reasons in some cases.

It didn't increase their discipleship.

It didn't increase their conversion to the Lord.

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