This is the Bamel Podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host Brent Billings. Today we discuss the next two parables of Jesus in Matthew 13, treasures and pearls.

Absolutely, but before we go any farther. We have a guest. We have a guest. What's the right expression? Further or further? It's further. Is it further? Yeah. Before we go any further.

Special guest. Yep. Cory Nadler. Welcome to the podcast. Hello. Hi. Cory, tell us who you are. Cory, I'll tell you a little bit of who you are. Cory was a WSU. Are you an alum, yet? I am an alum now. You're all done. Yeah. Without your grad work. Yeah. Are you a working man now? No, I'm trying to be a working man right now. That's good. Good playing for jobs. All right. Good. So shout out to anybody out there. Do you need to be an area? Spoke can area? Yeah. Yeah. Any Spoke can listeners out there that need a

biochemist? A biochemist. Yeah. I don't necessarily have any good jobs for you here at Bayma Discipleship.com. It's too bad. If somebody out there does, actually if you want to raise money, I got lots of jobs for you. No, Cory is one of our Bayma WSU alumni. That's the, I always get confused. Alumni, alumni, alumnus, alumnus is the single. This is becoming the verb podcast. Yeah. That's good. So tell us more about, let's see, you got a family now, right? Yeah.

Yeah. So I just got married on last October. Yeah. Excellent. And anything else about you other than your biochemist, what else you'd love to do? Favorite hobbies? Well, my wife says that I'm good at cooking. I don't know about that. But that's what she says. Hey, if she says that, that's pretty good. Yeah. That's like the one person you want to think that. Yeah. That's good. And that's excellent. Yeah. I love your wife. Tell her I said, hi. I will do that. She's fantastic. She says your wife have a name. My wife's name is Maria. Maria. Yeah. Maria Nadler.

Excellent. You guys got married. When? How long ago? We got married in October. Excellent. It was out there. I already said that. Oh, I don't actually listen. That's excellent. Now, your current on our podcast. Yeah. I've been told, right? Yeah. So what's your, you've listened to session one session, two session, three. What's your favorite session? Cory? Well, I really liked session one quite a bit. Yeah. But I have really been enjoying this particular session right now where we're going to be.

Going through math, you just bit by bit. Man, that is from everybody I've heard that is popular opinion right there. I've heard of one person that was like session two, man, I loved that. Most people, if they made it, they talk about it as like it was good, Marty, but it was a slog. I would say I would say that session two, um, affected how I view those passages, probably more than sure. The other ones did. Yeah. But, but, not as good.

Captivating. Not us. No. Not as stimulating, if you will. All right. We got parables to talk about two more. In fact, but two more short ones. Hey, that sounds familiar. Did you say too many parables, Marty? Does that sound familiar? Subillians? Sure. What was the last time you saw too many parables? Um, recently. Yeah. What were we talking about when we saw too many parables? Mustard seed and yeast. And then last podcast, we said that Jesus was doing what? Can you remember? He was.

Telling a whole story. Okay. Yeah. So like they asked him for further explanation on the weeds. Once they went inside and we suggested that what he's probably going to do is he's going to go back through and reiterate the teaching that he already gave in the soils, the weeds, the seed and the yeast. And he's now going to kind of reiterate those teachings, maybe by expanding, maybe adding a little bit. But we should find the exact same themes as we go through these parables. He should be teaching on new things. He should be repeating the teaching that he already gave in the previous. So I just find it interesting.

Interesting that there are two very small parables, just like there were two very small parables the first time. A parallelism, if not a chiasm. If not, I've wondered that. I've wondered that.

I've wondered that. Daphne, a parallelism for sure. At least in my mind. I mean, I'm no literary scholar. I'm no Ken Bailey. But if I had to give my two cents, that's what I think. All right. You want me to jump in? Just do it before I say anything else. The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again. And then in his joy,

went and sold all he had and bought that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it. All right. So we're going to use the same Jewish hermeneutic road map that we've been using in all of our other parable studies in Matthew 13. So the first thing we're going to look at is what Brent, the shot shot. That's Corey, but this episode hasn't been released yet for him in real time. So he hasn't heard this shit. Don't want to put it on.

I don't want to put it on the spot with that. Yeah. Yeah, I definitely don't know.

So Pasha would be this way. You've been through Bamel before that, right? Yeah. I mean, like currently, you're listening to it. But you've been through Bamel materials before that as well, right? Yeah. You're kind of familiar with it. Yeah.

That's Brent Bilen's giving you a fair warning. That's that's like a shot across the bow. Like, be prepared.

Marty stumps me all the time. Most of the time I edit that out. Yeah. He's getting excited that so many else can be asked questions right now. I like that.

Let's see here. Pasha. By the way, people say you're like their ambassador. Like you're their priest. They're like, no, keep asking Brent Bilen's questions.

He's like us. We get to like identify. They identify with you. You are there like mascot. The identify with the embarrassing lack of answers.

All right. So we want to ask Pasha. So Pasha would be surface level reading. So, Corey, let me just ask you. I'll read them again.

And you tell me what just as you just read it on the surface, what kind of things you take away here? The king of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field.

When a man found it, he hid it again. And then in his joy, went and sold all he had and bought that field again. The kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for pearls when he found one of great value.

He went away and sold everything he had and bought it. What are what are some of your push shot takeaways from that?

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