Knowing the Time - Romans 13:11 (Part 1)

Romans 13:11 reads: "Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep.  For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed."

Correctly knowing the time requires knowledge of the "nowness" of salvation. 
Or stated negatively, it is impossible to rightly know the time apart from rightly knowing the "nowness" of salvation.

Today's message sets the background for what Paul writes in chapter 13 by considering what Paul previously wrote to the Roman church about "now".