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...Are you sure that's the right verse? Looking in my bible, it seems a bit different...

Wait, nevermind. sweatdrop I was looking at the wrong area. Um, let's see...

From the context of the section as a whole, I believe it's talking about actually believing in God and honestly working to follow His will. Simply saying "I do this in the name of God!" doesn't mean that people are actually following Him. You can't do wrong, claim it's in the name of God, and that somehow makes it good. Also, liars who use faith to take advantage of others best reconsider their actions...

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In other words, you can't just call yourself a Christian. You have to be one.

Well, for example, you could charge ridiculous fees for things that ought to be done at little or no cost. Remember how Jesus went on a rampage inside the Temple? Sacrifices were, themselves, ordered by the Lord... but it's possible to do it wrong. Also, false prophets, claiming to have divine revelations they actually don't. It seems to me these people wouldn't truly be acting in a Godly fashion; their claims to do things in His name would, in effect, be lies.

yes, NIV
full text for reference
NIV - 21“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ 23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’

KJV - 21Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

It is reminiscent of the stark warning Jesus levelled against the scribes & pharisees when he declared "Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me." (Matthew 15:8, Mark 7:6)

The declaration from verse 22 is given at the time of judgement in defence of their right to enter heaven. "Look at all these great things I've done for You in Your name even!"

Paul in his letter to Timothy warns "1But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,3unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,4treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,5holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these."

Judas was counted as one of the twelve, when the disciples (and later another 70) went out at Jesus command "He gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease" (Mat 10:1) and they did and he did and yet did it do him any good in the end?

A "Sunday Christian" seems coined for those that "declare" their love for God by church attendance but show little evidence of it through the course of their daily lives the rest of the week. I recall one gentleman who stayed in a caravan with his wife on a property I was also renting at, one day came to church dressed nicely with his bible under his arm. At the preaching of the word he cried and so on. At home in the early afternoon after dinner I heard from the caravan the most abusive foul-mouthed attack on his wife... others are less obvious but God's eye is open unto all our deepest secrets, there is nothing that can be hidden from Him.

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When you think about it, it's actually sort of bad to want to do things like casting demons out. The implication is that you want other people to be suffering somehow so that you can fix it; even if you're doing it in God's name, I think it's sort of bad to want the situation to be happening at all.

Also, emphasis on performing obvious works for others to see can take the focus away from God... again, bad.

So...sinners? o- o
or people who just do it and havent accepted jesus?
or....?