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...those in Matthew 7:23 were never converted, those who depart from us were never converted.
24“Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. 25“Once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door, saying, ‘Lord, open up to us!’ then He will answer and say to you, ‘I do not know where you are from.’ 26“Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets’; 27and He will say, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you are from; DEPART FROM ME, ALL YOU EVILDOERS.’ (Luke 13:24-27 NASB)
Just because he never knew this particular group of people who ate and drank with him in his presence during his earthly ministry doesn't mean categorically and without exception all that Jesus will turn away at the resurrection never knew him. To get that out of Matthew 7:23 is to unrightly divide it away from the Luke 13:24-27 passage above.
Surely there will many from all through the centuries whom Christ will turn away at the resurrection and say, "I never knew you", but we can not use Matthew 7:23 all by itself isolated from Luke 13:24-27 to insist that every one of them without exception were never saved to begin with. He was talking about a very specific group of people who really didn't ever know him. He was not broad stroking all those who will be turned away at the resurrection as having never known him.
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