How do I know if I'm living by faith or living in unbelief?

Is there a more important question to the daily Christian life?

It's a question from a listener named Daniel, Hello Pastor John, Romans 1423 says that

whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.

Could it be said that anything that does proceed from faith glorifies God?

Is that also true?

So how do I know if what I'm doing proceeds from faith or unbelief?

I know this seems really basic, but it's also really abstract to me too.

I really don't know how to distinguish an act done from faith and an act done from unbelief.

Any help would be greatly appreciated to help me understand this distinction.

This is a really basic and very important question from living the Christian life in a way

that brings spirit-given peace to the soul and glory to God and good to the world.

All of that I think hangs on what it means to, quote, walk by faith or, quote, live by faith

or, quote, perform the obedience of faith or do the works of faith.

All four of those are biblical ways of talking about what Daniel is asking about.

I mean, how do you do a thing by faith as opposed to do a thing and it's sin when you do it?

Same thing, same act.

So that's what the Christian life is.

Before we were born again, we did nothing from faith.

After we are born again, faith in Jesus as our Redeemer, faith in God as our father provider,

faith in the Holy Spirit as the power that enables to do something.

That's how we live.

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