Note 56 at Mt 7:22: These people will say that they did the things spoken of in this verse, but by comparing this sermon with a similar sermon of Jesus' recorded in Lu 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 man 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 were actually ministering from their own abilities.

These people whom Jesus was speaking of were not "born-again" believers (see note 2 at Joh 3:3) who operated in true spiritual gifts and then fell away and became reprobate. Mt 7:23 makes it very clear that Jesus never knew them.