To Caesar!

Acts 25:9-12 
9 But Festus, wanting to do the Jews a favor, answered Paul and said, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem and there be judged before me concerning these things?”  10 So Paul said, “I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be judged. To the Jews I have done no wrong, as you very well know. 11 For if I am an offender, or have committed anything deserving of death, I do not object to dying; but if there is nothing in these things of which these men accuse me, no one can deliver me to them. I appeal to Caesar.”  12 Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, “You have appealed to Caesar? To Caesar you shall go!”

Festus wanted to appease the Jews and deliver Paul to them, but Paul reminded the governor that he had the right as a Roman to be judged in Rome.  He would gladly face the charges in a legal court due to his innocence, but not before biased religious leaders set on destroying him, much as others tied to do to King David a thousand years earlier.  It was his right as a Roman citizen.  So he was granted an audience before Caesar.  We are under the rulers God sets over us, so we use the process with a good conscience.