Jehu and Common Grace (II Kings 10:30)?
Hoeksema critiques the 1924 CRC Synod's doctrine of common grace by examining II Kings 10:30 and the case of King Jehu, arguing that genuinely good acts must be motivated by love of God and neighbor, not merely civil utility. He challenges the Synod's distinction between saving good and civil good, maintaining that all human acts are either morally good or evil based on their deepest motivations, and that the unregenerate cannot perform true good in either category.
Herman Hoeksema (Originally published in the Standard Bearer, 15 February, 1964, vol. 40) Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan. And the Lord said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in executing that which was right in mine eyes, and hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in mine heart; thy children of the fourth generation shall...