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Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ And I will tell them plainly, depart from me you evildoers!

I see this verse used a lot to "prove" that someone must have good works in addition to faith in order to go to heaven. What I read is that these people who were insisting that they had "prophesied in his name, drove out demons and performed many miracles" were relying on their OWN deeds to save them AND they were good deeds, not nasty, filthy sins. These were "religious" people, yet Jesus rejected their works and rejected them from going to heaven. Have you ever wondered why?

3,755 posted on 09/16/2011 6:11:06 PM PDT by boatbums ( Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us.)

3,756 posted on 09/16/2011 6:13:13 PM PDT by Judith Anne ( Holy Mary, Mother of God, please pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death.)

Amen. It’s all about “me”. Didn’t “I”, did “we” not, didn’t “we”, blah, blah. Nothing about Him. And what He did. Very telling, that Scripture. Thank you.

smvoice