1 Thessalonians 5:12-15 — Paul Washer

The Gospel and the Holiness of God

Also, we're going to be in 1 Thessalonians again, we should finish up in a week or two. And we're going to be in 1 Thessalonians 5, beginning in verse 12. Before I go to the text, though, I would like to say our pastor read about the resurrection.

And this is so extremely important. And though we preach the gospel here with great frequency, I do see new faces. And so let me just lay a few things out for you with regard to the gospel that possibly you've never heard.

Whenever we're contemplating the gospel itself, the good news of God and Jesus Christ, you have to ask yourself, what is the reason for the gospel? What is the reason for the death of Christ? And here's what I want you to see.

The gospel does have to do with the sin of man. But that's not the primary reason why the gospel is necessary. The primary reason why the gospel is necessary is because of the nature of God. You see, if man was a sinner and he is, but if God was not holy, then there wouldn't be a problem.

There would be no problem, there would be no need for reconciliation. The need for reconciliation comes from the fact that God is holy and God is just. And that presents the greatest problem in all the scriptures.

And let me set it before you in sort of a philosophical formula. It would be this. Paul says it in Romans 3. How can God be truly just and righteous and yet pardon wicked men? That's the greatest problem in the Bible.

If you haven't known that, well, know tonight that that's the heart of the gospel. And usually when I'm witnessing to somebody, that's where I start off. The greatest problem is how can God be just and pardon wicked men while maintaining his justice?

Because even in our own world, isn't it true that if a judge lets criminals go, what do we say about him? He's corrupt. You see, God can't demonstrate his love at the expense of his other attributes. You may have heard some preachers say at one time, well, instead of being just with you, God was loving.

Well, if you study classical logic, you know that, well, that preacher is saying that God's love is unjust. God's love must be just. And so how can God pardon wicked men and still be just? There's only one way in the person of Jesus Christ, who is God in the flesh.

Christ's Substitutionary Death and the Satisfaction of Justice

What happened there on that tree? Well, let's look at the whole thing. God in his justice condemns man. And man is separated from God and without hope, and there is nothing man can do to save himself.

But then in God's mercy, in God's love, God becomes man. He walks upon this earth and lives a perfect life. In complete submission to the law and perfect obedience to the will of God, and then he goes to a tree and on that tree, he takes the sin of his people upon himself.

Not only does he take our sin upon himself, but the Bible says he becomes the curse, a curse of God. And then all the wrath of a righteous God, all the divine punishment that should fall upon wicked men.

On that cross, it fell upon the sun. You see, a lot of times, many of you, especially now during what's called Easter season, you'll hear preachers talk about the cross of Christ and they'll talk about the crown of thorns on his head.

They'll talk about the nails in his hands and his feet and the spear in his side. And then they'll just end their sermon. But what you have to understand is that's that's not the pain of the cross. Your sins are not forgiven just because some Romans beat up Jesus and nailed him to a tree.

What saves us is that when he was nailed to the tree. In that horrible physical suffering, he bore the filth of our sin, he bore our sin and God turned away from him as he should turn away from us. And then all the wrath of God that should fall upon us throughout an eternity in hell fell upon the sun and the sun in himself.

He extinguished, we can say, the wrath of God. He swallowed it up. And that's why when the very last drop do you was suffered by him, he cried out, it is finished. That means what? He extinguished the wrath of God because he satisfied all the demands of God's justice by suffering in your place and it's finished.

He died, he rose again on the third day, send it up into heaven, he sits at the right hand of God. And who shall ever whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved, whoever puts their faith in him and the one who puts their faith in him.

Here's the marvelous thing. There is therefore now no more condemnation for the believer. Never. None. Why? It was swallowed up on Calvary by the son of God. And that's the gospel. But in order for you to be saved, you must repent of your sins and you must believe the gospel and the evidence that you have believed in a saving manner is that you go on repenting.

You go on believing that he who began a good work in you, he finishes it until the day you stand before him blameless and with great joy and glory. And that's the gospel of Jesus Christ. And if you have any questions about that tonight, will you come see me or pastor or someone else, another member like myself?

And we'd be glad to talk to you about the gospel. Now, let's look at First Thessalonians chapter five, verse 12. And we're going to do a lot of different word studies, because when you read a passage like this, there's all sorts of words that you just kind of read and don't really get a hold of.

But we need to get a hold of them. Now, 512, but we request of you, brethren, that you appreciate those who diligently labor among you and have charge over you and the Lord and give you instruction and that you esteem them very highly in love because of their work.

Live in peace with one another. We urge you, brethren, admonish the unruly, encourage the faint hearted, help the weak, be patient with everyone. See that no one repays another with evil for evil, but always seek after that which is good for one another and for all people.

Let's pray. Father, thank you for your word. Thank you for your great mercies that you have revealed in your son. Thank you for your kindness and your patience. Father, I pray that tonight for the glory of your son, for the good of your people.

That you would help me to communicate the things that are here. And that you would help your people to hear and understand. And Lord, we acknowledge that nothing is possible apart from your spirit, we have no wisdom, we have no strength, we have no eloquence.

You alone, Lord, you alone deserve the glory and you alone are our help. So help us, Lord, in Jesus name. Amen. Now, in this section, which, as many of you know, we've been preaching through First Thessalonians.

The Elder's Responsibilities and the Church's Mutual Care

In this section, we have the responsibility of the elders to the congregation. We also have the congregation's responsibility to the elders. Then we have the responsibility, mutual responsibility between the elders and the congregation.

And then finally, we have the responsibility of the congregation to the congregation. And we're going to work through that. And I'm glad that I'm not an elder. I'll tell you why. It makes elders very uncomfortable to have to teach on these kind of things about not only what they're supposed to do.

That doesn't make them uncomfortable. But when they try to tell you the way you're supposed to treat an elder. And since I'm not an elder, I can stand up here and preach as a member and tell you that you and I need to do certain things with regard to the elders or at this time elder that is here.

All right. And this is very, very serious. Why? Because we live in a day where we've always. Well, most of you weren't didn't grow up in the hippie era like I did. But in the hippie era, it all started that we always got these T-shirts that said question authority.

And after a while, if you keep hearing something over and over, it becomes a truth to you, even though it's a lie. And so you get to the point where you have an entire generation of people who are constantly questioning authority and not trusting authorities.

When I was in political science my first year at the university, a professor went down a list of all the things you needed to do in order to destroy a country. And the first one was to eliminate all confidence in the established institutions.

Of government, of religion. Of education, and that's basically what's happened in our country, and sometimes it bleeds into the church, doesn't it? Especially when you see these TV evangelists getting wealthy and all sorts of things like that.

And so we we almost develop an attitude where we're afraid to trust and we're afraid or at least hesitant to honor an authority. And yet that's exactly what the scriptures are going to tell us to do. So let's let's look at the text.

We're going to look at three responsibilities of the elder. And the first one is he must diligently labor among the congregation. Look what it says in verse 12. But we request you, brethren, that you appreciate those who now he's going to describe an elder who diligently labor among you.

So the first thing that an elder is required to do is to diligently labor. Now, I want you to look down here and it says appreciate those. That's plural. Why? Because in a perfect case scenario, there's more than one elder in a perfect case scenario.

You have various elders with various gifts, all taking care of the church. But sometimes in a church plant or a new church like this, it'll often begin with one elder or maybe as our church began with a few.

But then others went. Some of the elders went to preach in another place and another elder went to study at the university. And so we're left with Brother Anthony. So we have a singular elder. And that ought to tell us something.

The work of being an elder is very, very difficult when you have several elders. But when you have one, it makes it even more difficult. And therefore, we probably should appreciate in a greater way the elder that we have.

Now, another thing, it says diligently labor. It comes from a Greek word kopio. And we've we've gone through this word before in First Thessalonians. Paul uses it at different times. And it means literally to grow weary with toil, to grow weary with toil.

What is the work of an elder? A true elder will grow weary. Most of them die young and those who don't look a lot older than they actually are. And so you need to realize that the work of being an elder is quite difficult.

When I was in seminary about 150 years ago, I remember in systematic class, one of my professors said, if you want to know what it means to be the pastor of a church, then read Isaiah 53. I think many of you probably know what that text says.

It talks about the suffering servant of Yahweh, talks about the Messiah who is going to suffer and die for the sake of his people. And in one way, the minister takes on something of that mantle. He diligently labors now when Paul tells the elders to diligently labor, what he's actually doing is telling them to imitate him.

The Elder's Labor and the Pattern of Paul's Ministry

And I want you to look over with me to chapter two. At verse nine, look what he says about his own ministry, he says, for you recall, brethren, our labor and hardship, the word labor there again is copious, which is the noun form of copious.

He says our labor and hardship, how working night and day so as not to be a burden to any of you, we proclaim to you the gospel of God. Now, this is part of what a minister's life has to be diligent, toil, labor.

But church, I want you to realize something. We need to be careful. Should the ministers of this church be ready to help? Yes, yes. But should we also our own selves seek to grow to maturity so that we're not constantly in need, that we ourselves study the scriptures, that we ourselves encourage one another?

You know, when my little when my little girl Rowan needs to go across the parking lot in Walmart, she's seven years old. I'm going to hold her hand. Hopefully I don't have to do that when she's twenty seven.

I want her to grow to maturity and all of us must grow to maturity, and as we do, the burden becomes less and less on the elders so that they can dedicate more and more of their time to studying and praying in order to be prepared to be in the pulpit and teach us.

Remember, Romans 12, too, says that the will of God is perfect. Now, what's that have to do with this? Well, there's been down through the ages this idea that the minister ought to sacrifice his family for the benefit of benefit of the ministry.

We've all heard that that's a lie. Not only is it a lie, it actually speaks against God. In what way? God says that his will is perfect, which means you don't have to violate one aspect of God's will in order to fulfill another aspect of God's will.

God has commands for the minister and all of us, if we're men with regard to our wives and our children. And in order to do what God says in the ministry, we should never have to neglect them over here.

We want to have a life of whole obedience unto the Lord and we as members, when we have needs, yes, we can contact an elder, but we also ought to be sensitive. Man has a wife, man has a family. It's very, very important to understand.

The Congregation's Labor of Love

Now, I also want us to look at something that's very important. Let's go to chapter one, verse three, and we're going to see this word again in its noun form. And look what it says. He's talking about the members of the church and he said, constantly bearing in mind your work of faith, your labor, your diligent labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and father.

Now, we've seen that the minister in one sense makes himself weary taking care of the congregation. But here, what do we see? The congregation doing the same thing for one another. Do you see that? He says that the congregation is involved in a labor, a copos, a diligent labor of love towards one another.

And we're going to talk about this later, we're going to look at Ephesians four just a little bit. The purpose of the minister is to minister to you, to teach you to minister to each other and all of us should diligently labor.

Now, I want to say this. Every Christian in here will pass through times of need when they cannot give, they need they need help. But here's something that I always I always check my own life with this.

So it's all right if I tell you to do the same. You be very careful that you don't become a sponge to everybody. Now, please understand me. There are times when all of us have great needs and when we do, that's that's that's what we're here for is to meet your need at the same time.

Beware that you not become a person. Who is constantly asking for more help, but rarely able to give any. Maybe that's reflecting something in your life, your personal life that that ought to get right.

You see that because there's a sense in which all of us need to be diligently involved. In helping one another grow in Christ now, also look here in chapter five. It says, but we request verse 12, we request you, brethren, that you appreciate those who diligently labor among you.

The Elder Among the People

Now. Here's what he's saying, the minister, the elder is not a person who stands aloof, stands far off and yells directions at everybody. He's not someone who stands in a pulpit and speaks down to the congregation.

He is part of the congregation and he is there among them. Loving them, caring for them, there is one sense in which, yes, he's an elder, he's an authority, there's another sense in which he's a member.

And he's with the people, I have known so many pastors in my lifetime that thought it was their responsibility to go from their study to the pulpit and back and no one talk to them. But that's not what pastoring, that's not what pastoring is.

Now, again, when Paul tells a minister to be among the people, he's telling the minister to mimic him. Look for just a minute at chapter two again, where Paul is describing his own ministry. Verse seven.

Paul just wasn't an apostle, he just wasn't a type of prophet and teacher and theologian. But he says this, but we prove to be gentle among you. Same phrase in the Greek. As a nursing mother tenderly cares for her own children, having so fond an affection for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but also our own lives because you had become very dear to us.

The minister is not just imparting information. He's imparting his life, he's imparting his life. And I want you to know of all the things that I have done in my life, I think counseling and pastoring have taken the greatest toll when I have done it, taken the greatest toll.

I mean, it seems like you could preach for four hours, but an hour in a counseling chamber or in the office with someone, it just literally it's not just the impartation of knowledge, it's the impartation of life and it will wear you out.

And that's what the elder must do. That's the price of being an elder. Yet at the same time, all of us should be sensitive to that, should be sensitive to that. OK, all right, well, let's go on. Also, it says in verse 12, it says that, but we appreciate, but we request of you, brethren, that you appreciate those who diligently labor among you and have charge over you and the Lord have charge over you and the Lord.

So the elder is not just diligently laboring. Among the people, but he has charge over them in the Lord now, the phrase have charge over comes from the Greek word pro is the man pro means before and is the man means to stand.

And I think you can figure it out. It means to stand before. To stand before the people as one who leads. As one who instructs in some context, it can be used as one who rules another context, the one who gives an example, an elder does have authority.

And so when an elder speaks, we ought to listen. Now, there's an important phrase here in the Lord that we need to look at. And what does it mean? First of all, the elder has charge of the congregation in the Lord, which means his authority is divinely appointed.

He is God's man. He's God's elder. He's the one that God has appointed or they are the ones that God has appointed to care for the congregation. You see that now, let me give you the attitude I have about that in anything in which I'm leading.

Whether it's being a husband or a father or, you know, directing heart cry or whatever it is, I always say this, this is my attitude, I go, look, God could have given my wife a better husband than me.

But the fact is, he gave her me. God could have given my children a better father than me, but he gave them me. God could have put a better leader over heart cry, but the fact is, I'm the founder and leader of heart cry.

God put me there and therefore I'm not going to act falsely humble. I'm going to do what I have to do. I'm going to lead. I'm not going to whine about the fact that there are better men, I'm not going to look for anyone to replace me.

And that's the same way with an elder. An elder has to take this authority upon himself in the fear of the Lord and lead. So the authority is divinely appointed, but also the authority is divinely limited.

And this is extremely important. I hear these preachers today, these TV preachers and stuff, they talk about their anointing and their authority and their God's man. And let me share with you something.

First, John says that all believers have been anointed by the Holy Spirit. Secondly, our authority does not come from some special calling. As men of God, as elders. A person has authority, an elder has authority only to the degree that he teaches and conducts himself and makes decisions in accordance with the word of God.

Do you see that? This is so very important. If you ever see a man who gets up in front of the church in his own authority, demanding that he be followed, you get out of there really quick. You're in a cult.

Just get out of there. You don't need to be there. Authority comes from scripture and and the scripture also limits authority. And protects us all. Now, here's something, though, that I want to lay on all of you.

Testing Teaching by Scripture

Let's go for a moment, just for a moment to Acts 17. Look at verse 11. We'll start in 10, the brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea. And when they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews.

Now, these are apostles, OK? These these guys have authority a lot more than any elder you'll ever meet. Paul, the apostle, had some serious authority. Now, verse 11. Now, these were more noble minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

They were not taking the apostles word at it. Do you see that? When they were hearing the word, they were going, wow, this seems wonderful. This man really seems to know what he's talking about. This is indeed good news.

But we cannot affirm it and we cannot follow it until we see it in the scriptures. Do you know why most people are deceived by leaders? Because they don't study the word of God. It is the church's responsibility to study the word of God.

Please understand that it doesn't function if you just have the elder studying the word and everyone following. But each one of us must study the word of God. Now, there's a third requirement for the elder.

It's found in verse 12. Also, he says, but we request of you, brethren, that you appreciate those who diligently labor among you and have charge over you and the Lord and give you instruction. Now, the word instruction here, some of you will be familiar with this word, it's new that they'll you've probably heard of new that it counseling new that they'll noose, meaning mind, antiphony, meaning place or put to place or put to put something in the mind.

Do you see that? So when we are instructing or when an elder is instructing, he is putting something in your mind. And that right there ought to tell you that's a good reason to study the scriptures yourself to be able to judge what's putting in what's being put in to your mind.

But now this word new detail is means much more than instruction. It carries with it all also the idea of exhortation, admonishment and warning. And it can even be rather aggressive, such as telling you, look, you're dead wrong and you need to stop right now.

And if you don't stop right now, you're going to do yourself and your family some great damage. Do you see that? So when it talks about the elder giving instruction, you need to realize that's what he has to do, that's his job.

Now, I've heard a lot of people like a lot of parents, they'll say we don't we don't discipline our children because we just love them too much. The Bible says it's just the opposite. You don't discipline your children because you love you and you want your children to love you.

You want them to like you. And if you discipline them, they won't like you. Well, I hear a lot of preachers say, why don't I just don't preach those hard things because I just preach the love of God. No, sir, you're a coward.

And you desire for people just to like you or maybe you're protecting your job, but I want to tell you something, if a man truly loves you. Well, the man who loves you most is the man who's going to tell you the most truth.

Even if it makes you angry, you see, I am constantly in need of the word of God correcting me, admonishing me, exhorting me, warning me. I'm also in need of that for my brothers and sisters in Christ who are around me.

I'm in need of that from my wife. You see, we need each other doing these kinds of things. Now, let me say something just for a minute about preaching. That's so important. If preaching is dangerous, teaching is dangerous.

Did you know that it's dangerous for everybody? If if the elder preaches something that's not true, it's dangerous for him, isn't it? Because one day you'll stand before God and be judged, but it's also dangerous for you if you follow it because you're following something that's not true.

You're basing your life on something that is sand and not a rock. But also you need to realize this, if the elder preaches what is true, it's dangerous. It's very dangerous. It's dangerous for you. Why?

Because you'll be held accountable for what you hear and not just what you hear, but how you responded to what you hear. Bad preaching is dangerous. Good preaching is dangerous. But good preaching, according to the scriptures, obeyed leads to life.

Leads to life. Now, now we're going to look for a minute at the responsibility of the church as the responsibility of all of us to our elder and in the future elders. Let's look in verse 12 again. But we request you, brethren, that you appreciate those who diligently labor among you.

Recognizing and Honoring Faithful Elders

Now, the word appreciate here is really not what I was expecting in the Greek text. I was expecting some really flamboyant word. But the fact is, it's just the word Oida and the simple. Translation of Oida is know them literally that, you know, those who diligently labor among you, but in the original languages, context always influences the meaning.

And so the idea here is not just that you know who they are, but you recognize them. That's the idea being taught. You recognize who they are. You recognize the caliber of man that they are, you recognize the hard work that they're doing on behalf of you and your family.

You recognize the sacrifices that are being made and you respond accordingly with appreciation. With respect. With honor now, I want to. Say something that's very important here, and that is this not so much in this culture, because in our culture, we've almost learned not to honor anybody.

But in many cultures around the world, especially, for example, when I'm I'm with the Chinese or when I'm over in India, there's something that that remains in those cultures that I think is good. And that is this a sense of respect for someone who's older.

And oftentimes the elders are older, but that's not always the case. Many times the elder may be younger than you. Anthony's a lot younger than I am. All right, but now I want us to go for just really quickly go to First Timothy chapter four, verse 12, it says to Timothy, Paul is writing to Timothy, he says, let no one look down on your youthfulness, but rather in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity.

Show yourself an example of those who believe now. Why should we respect someone? Well, we should respect someone just because they're older, even if they're a fool. Really, we should rise up in the presence of the gray headed man.

See that in the law, there is a sense in which we should respect those who are older than us, but when it comes to elders, we respect them. Not because they're older, they might they may be younger, but we respect them for the character that they've manifested.

And Paul says that here. He says speech, conduct, love, faith, purity. Are they showing themselves as an example in those things? And if they are, then respect. Now, I was out in I've been out to California several times at Grace Community and and out there at the Shepherds Conference and things like that.

And it would really bother me. I mean, if I talked to Dr. MacArthur, I would say, Dr. MacArthur. But I'd hear the students walking around, go, Pastor John. And one day I said, why are you calling Pastor John?

I mean, I'm 53 years old. I call him Dr. MacArthur. And he said, well, because Dr. MacArthur told us we could call him Pastor John. And well, that's all right then. So, you know, if the elder says, just call me, Joe.

Well, that's fine. You don't have to give him some special title at the same time. Realize this. He's different. And I want you to acknowledge that and I want you to know that. All believers should be treated with dignity, we see that in the scriptures, but when it comes to an elder, he's different because of not because of his position as much as the character that made him qualified to be an elder and the service that he's given.

OK, this is very, very important. So young guys, especially those of us who may be around the elders more, we need to be very careful. Yeah, but he's different. And show show respect, and I love the way all of you are nodding your head, so praise the Lord because we should now.

Esteeming Elders in Love and Honor

So we are to appreciate, but then he goes on and I want us to look in verse 13 also and that you esteem them very highly in love, you esteem them very highly. Now, the word esteem is not really a special word.

It kind of means to. Well, let's put it in kind of Virginia country slang. It means to reckon I reckon that's a good fella. It means to count, it means to think, it means to regard, and in all that it means to esteem.

What you do is you're looking at that person and you're calculating and saying, yes, they're worth they have worth. They are worthy of being esteemed now, it's not only says esteem, look here in our text, it says very highly now this is a word in Greek that just kind of it's very unusual.

Why? You know what a compound word is, right? Usually it's two words kind of put together. Well, this one is three words put together and it really comes out to a strange word. Let me see if I can give you the correct pronunciation.

Oop, what a pretty sauce. Now, Uber means over or beyond and Ek means out of and Parisos means abundantly. And when you put it all together, this is what it's saying. Esteem him above abundantly, esteem him very high, esteem him most highly, esteem him beyond measure, esteem him exceedingly.

That's that's what it means. Now, we all know men are men, we all know even the man that's worthy of most esteem is capable of failure. We're not talking about following men. Because as the elders hold us accountable through preaching and teaching, we also hold the elders accountable by reading our own Bibles and speaking with them also.

But know this, the scriptures do command us to esteem them very highly. Now, look at the phrase. It says esteem them very highly in love. Why is that important? Esteem them according to the love. That you have for them and not because you've held them up to an almost unattainable standard, and they've met that standard, don't do that.

I've heard people say, I don't esteem that person because they failed me. And whom have have you not failed? For someone to be esteemed, it doesn't mean that they're perfect, it doesn't mean that they will never drop the ball.

The only one who never drops the ball is Jesus Christ, our Lord. The rest of us, we got butter on our hands. But you look at the whole trend of a man's life, you look at what he's trying to do, you look at the integrity that's there, you look at the achievements made in character and you esteem them again, not because you've held them up to some unattainable standard, but because you've watched them give their life away for the sake of the congregation.

So we do it in love because we love them. OK, all right. Let's look at another text, First Timothy 517, just turn there for a second, and it says the elders who rule well are to be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching.

Worthy of double honor. Now, we're not going to get into all the things that that does mean or could mean, but just know this. And really, I want you to take this as something that it doesn't scare you the next time you talk to one of the elders, but it is in the back of your head.

Hold it. I'm from a culture that really doesn't esteem, really doesn't honor and really doesn't appreciate. And I'm going to break out of that mold and I'm going to show appreciation. I'm going to give honor, I'm going to show preference.

OK, as I said, it's always good that a man like me can preach this because it's really uncomfortable for an elder to get up and do something like this. But it's true. I'm saying it because it's in the Bible.

You can see it. There it is. There it is. OK, now let's look at the motivation for doing this in verse 13 and that you esteem them very highly in love because of their work. That's one of the reasons you esteem them because of their work.

You know, it's like the elder gets up in the morning and is going out the door and is, you know, you know, most guys say, hey, honey, I'm off to the factory or hey, honey, I'm off to the office. The elder basically says, hey, honey, I'm off to fight the ruler of the prince of the power of the air.

I'm off to fight hell. I'm going to take the whole world on today. Do you see it is a difficult task? It's a very difficult task and the man is in the crosshairs. And he's always got to fight battles, and the more responsibility a man is given, the more battles there will be.

And so you ought to esteem the elder for the sake of the work that he's doing. It is a difficult work. Difficult. It's. Now, let's look at another reason, because it's the will of God, look at the first phrase in in verse 12.

But we request of you, brethren, that you appreciate those who diligently labor among you. Request a rotal. You think that Paul is just kind of maybe saying, well, I requested now it's it's also carries with it the idea of I beseech you, I urge you, because this is right.