The God Who Breaks Us with Kindness

Summary

The sermon explores how God's overwhelming kindness can confront our sin and jerk-like behavior, breaking us through gentleness as seen in Ezekiel 36. It addresses a tension in Christian hedonism regarding God seeking glory and us finding delight, particularly in Ezekiel 36:22, by clarifying that "for the sake of" can mean both for our benefit and because of past actions. The takeaway is that God's actions are for our ultimate good, even when He acts because of our sin and for His own glory.