AE 934 - Two Things Are necessary; AE 935 - What Is Your God?

AE 934 [2]

. . . for works to be done by the Lord, and not by man,
two things are necessary:
first, the Lord's Divine must be acknowledged,
also that He is the God of heaven and earth
even as to the Human,
and that every good that is good is from Him;
and secondly, that man must live
according to the commandments of the Decalogue
by abstaining from those evils that are there forbidden,
that is, from worshiping other gods,
from profaning the name of God,
from thefts,
from adulteries, from murders,
from false witness,
from coveting the possessions and property of others.
These two things are requisite
that the works done by man may be good.
The reason is
that every good comes from the Lord alone,
and the Lord cannot enter into man and lead him
so long as these evils are not removed as sins;
for they are infernal,
and in fact are hell with man,
and unless hell is removed
the Lord cannot enter and open heaven.
This is what is meant
by the Lord's words to the rich man:

Who asked Him about eternal life,
and said that he had kept
the commandments of the Decalogue
from his youth;
whom the Lord is said to have loved,
and to have taught that one thing was lacking to him,
that he should sell all that he had
and take up the cross.
(Matt. 19:16-22; Mark 10:17-22; Luke 18:18-23)

AE 935

. . . every one's god is
that which he loves above all things.