Note 56 at Mt. 7:22: These people will say that they did these things, but by comparing this sermon with a similar sermon of Jesus' recorded in Luke 6:46, we can see that they never did prophesy, or cast out demons, or do these wonderful works. They were deceived.

Many people today think that signing a card, joining a church, being baptized, and many other "wonderful" works will produce salvation, but they are deceived, too. Religious doctrines of men have perverted people's understanding of the supernatural gifts of God to the point that many will think that they have been used of God to minister to others and perform miracles when they are actually ministering from their own abilities.

These people that Jesus is speaking of were not "born- again" believers (see note 2 at Jn. 3:3, p. 48) who operated in true spiritual gifts and then fell away and became reprobate. Verse 23 makes it very clear that Jesus never knew them.