Idiom: have a few (used idiomatically: yes)
So in everything that we do and staying spiritually awake , we have to do something , it all comes back to you and I at the end of the day , no one else can do it for us we sometimes think well , well , so and so can help , I mean this is true to a degree , but at the end of the day it all comes back to us does n't it ? We 're the ones that have said to Jehovah I am dedicating my life to you , I am going to do this , do that and the other and it 's up to us as to whether we do it , so it requires effort , first , five , six , also says let us stay awake , keep our senses first Peter , five , eight keep your senses , be watchful and then first Corinthians , ten , twelve which I think the song was based on let him think that he is standing , beware , beware , beware that he does not fall , if you think things are going along nicely and you 're in a comfortable little corner , a little niche in the truth , and it 's just how you like it , and it 's just the way you want it to be and there 's the time we need to be aware because there 's an opening for Satan to get into to make us fall . Now going back into the Hebrew scriptures , you 'll find there that this sort of staying awake counsel , an idea was there long before the days of Jesus and the Apostles and people 's lives were involved in its state , even in those days , let 's just let us have a look at one , Isaiah forty two eighteen to twenty now this terms it slightly different , but when you look at it and analyze it , you realize he 's talking about exactly the same thing , it 's regarding the nation of Israel who turned away from Jehovah , they were n't doing what they should be doing , or should 've been doing as he 's pleading with them look there , that look here , here you deaf ones , well we know the nation of Israel were n't all physically deaf , they were like we are , perhaps had a few deaf individuals amongst them , but generally speaking the nation had good ears , they knew what was what and they listened quite well , hear you deaf ones he 's describing them and look forth to see you blind once verse twenty it was a case of seeing many things , but you did not cheat watching and Daniel , verse twenty five , look it says there a little phrase near , half way through that he took no note , the nation took no note of what was happening at that time , but we know what happened to them , many of them , thousands , a million of them lost their lives did n't they ? Because they were overthrown and the others were taken off into captivity into battle life , and what a life they had , the one of slavery , so at that time because they took no note , because they were destiny instructions to Jehovah for his word and again want to see , they had eyes , but they just did n't want to see it they knew , all the why s and wherefores and what the responsibilities were , but they did n't measure up to them and because of that many of them lost their lives , and if they did n't they were taken into captivity , Jeremiah four , in verse twenty two , again another prophecy sent to them exactly over the same message , the same reasons describes to them as being a , er people that is foolish and of me they have taken no notice Jeremiah four and verse twenty two .