[tired&retired]

“You are being deceived by the very spirits you claim you are casting out.”

Would satan cast out satan?

A house divided against itself will fall.

[metmom]

Maybe. And Satan will fall so that verse does not apply.

But it would certainly make sense that the enemy would deceive a person into thinking they had been delivered and the demon lay low and work in other nefarious ways.

[metmom]

Matthew 7:21-23 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

Jesus never denied that mighty works were done.

If Jesus never knew those people who cast out demons, then by what power did they *cast them out*?