1 Nephi 1 – 5

What does it mean to be highly favored of the Lord? And my father dwelt in a tent. Kingship in the Book of Mormon. Transcript:[00:00:15] Speaker A: Welcome to the weekly Deep Dive podcast on the Add on Education network the podcast, where we take a look at the weekly come follow me discussion and try to add a little insight and unique active. I am your host, Jason Lloyd, here in the studio with our friend and this show’s producer, Nate Pyfer.[00:00:31] Speaker B: What’s up?[00:00:32] Speaker A: Hey, how you doing, dude?[00:00:34] Speaker B: We got a lot of feedback last week. Yeah, glad we like kind of strangely overwhelming. Our numbers were kind of bonkers last week and was getting a lot of really nice messages.One of the messages was pointed out to me that I forgot for the first time in three years to drop the email address at the end of the episode on how you get a hold of us. And that is. [email protected], so that’s for your feedback. Questions, comments. I think by the end of last episode, I just assumed that anybody still listening to this has probably heard me say it a thousand times. Good to include, but it is good to include. So that is how to get a hold of us. I wanted to start this week with that so that, in case I forget.[00:01:22] Speaker A: Again, I think a lot of people were wondering, like, if we just disappeared or fell off the face of the earth.[00:01:27] Speaker B: They’re probably worried about us. They’re probably worried about us.[00:01:30] Speaker A: And we’re back. We’re here, we’re recording. We’ll be consistent, and the book of.[00:01:34] Speaker B: Mormon is going to be great.[00:01:35] Speaker A: Oh, man. That is the biggest challenge tonight is to try to fit everything in these first few chapters into one concise episode. That’s just not going to fill up your whole week full of listening hours and keep us up all night. We’re going to try.[00:01:51] Speaker B: It will be long, though.[00:01:52] Speaker A: We’re going to try to squeeze this into a reasonable amount of time.[00:01:56] Speaker B: But be prepared.[00:01:57] Speaker A: Be prepared just in case.[00:01:58] Speaker B: Get a snack.[00:02:00] Speaker A: Have a snack ready. I hope you’re on a long drive.[00:02:03] Speaker B: Yeah, I was going to say, or if you’re in like, la morning traffic, it’ll be actually a perfect length for where you’re going. 7 miles away or whatever. All right, let’s do it.[00:02:13] Speaker A: Let’s do it. Let’s just dive right in because there’s a lot to talk about. I love the Book of Mormon, particularly these first few chapters. Nephi really sets the stage. He offers us something that we don’t see so much in a lot of the other books, and that is an introduction of who he is and why he’s writing. And I almost want to point out a little detail here just to set the stage it’s almost like Nephi has a propensity to overshare I Nephi, having been born of goodly parents, what does that have to do with the story? Why do we care if your parents were goodly? And what does goodly even mean? Nephi, what are you talking about? He does this a lot, to the point where sometimes he puts himself in a negative light, a little bit like, yeah, I get it. He is this younger, annoying brother that’s always tattling on his older ones, or always trying to do this. Sometimes his oversharing of details maybe is a bit too much, it seems.And that’s Nephi. He’s very honest. He’s very clear. Sometimes he’s a little bit repetitive, and he tries to tell us, I love plainness in speech. I’m going to try to spell this out very plain. So I think that’s important to know going forward into this, that Nephi has this, and yet he is extremely wise. And some of the details that he leaves here are actually extremely profound. And here’s what I’m talking about. First off, what does it mean to be...