1st Nephi, Chapter 4

If I could title this post, it would be:

Nephi's The Man.

Okay, so he leads his brothers back to get the Brass Plates from King Laban, fearless. The king lusts after their "property" they'd brought in exchange for the plates. They are chased out of King Laban's presence, ditching the property.

The elder boys complain toward Nephi. They are humiliated by the King of their former land. How dare they ask for the sacred record, especially of a King! About Laban, Laman says in the last verse of chapter 3:
" ....Behold he is a mighty man, and he can command 50, yea, even he can slay 50; then why not us?"

Chapter 4 starts with Nephi replying:
"...Let us be faithful in keeping the commandments of the Lord; for behold he is mightier than ALL THE EARTH, then why not mightier than Laban and his 50, yea, or even than his tens of thousands?"

His brothers still don't have faith. What happens next? They send Nephi out to do the job himself.

Verse 6:
Nephi says: "I was lead by the spirit, not knowing before hand the things which I should do." I think that's the way the Lord likes us best, when we say things like that.

But imagine his brothers when he returned to the camp looking something like this:

Undocumented scripture "Shoot! It's Laban! Run Lemuel, Run!"

The Lord truly is the source of the greatest of strengths. He will never give us any task that we cannot do, he will always prepare a way.

And, I can't end this Nephi post without this picture (you wouldn't forgive me):

Yes, I do believe he was large in stature. Whatta a hunk. I can say that, right?