As a new believer in Christ, Craig Owen had to decide whether to turn himself in for crimes he'd committed.

He asked himself this question.

How free do you want to be?

And there's a freedom that you get knowing that your conscience is clear, that you can't get unless it is.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss for Thursday, October 3rd.

All week we've been hearing from the late Craig Owen and his wife Terry.

If you missed any of it, you can listen to past programs at revive our hearts.com.

The programs this week have made us examine the idea of surrender.

Are we willing to take radical steps of obedience and trust God with the

outcome? When we left Craig, he had turned himself into Canadian authorities and confessed

the crimes of his past. His wife Terry was back in Indiana praying that she'd see him again.

Let's get back to the conversation between Nancy,

Terry, and Craig. He had been forgiven by Christ, but was pleading guilty in court.

I showed up, and this was the scheduled hearing to accept my plea, and it gets a little

interesting here, because I have the attorney that's represented me.

We have the Crown Prosecutor, which plays the role of district attorney.

The evidence is put before the court in terms of the particulars of the case of each of them.

The court asks, you know, you understand what you're pleading guilty to.

And I say, yes.

And my attorney then goes into,

but we're, you know, our whole intent here is to plead on the mercy of the court relative to

sentencing and to move to an acceptance of the guilty plea and then move on into the sentencing

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