The Divine Courtroom- Rom. 8:33, 34

During our home church service, during Jim Buckingham's expose on this passage it dawned on me for the first time that Paul set this up with classic language of the courtroom.  You have an accusation, or "charge" and an implied prosecutor being Satan.  You have the Judge who is our God who has already declared us "justified".  You have the defending attorney who is Christ who died and rose and is at the right hand of the Judge making intercession for us.  

Imagine walking into a courtroom to answer a condemnation when you already have a statement of  justification from the judge and you know your defending attorney is close to the judge and has paid the fine.  The accusation would be totally toothless as long as we were in good standing with the Judge and the Defending attorney.  There would be no case- in fact it would be thrown out.  No wonder Paul breaks into his doxology.  What an encouragement!