Sovereignty is a temporal characteristic, not an eternal one, thus we can say God is all-powerful, not because He is sovereign, but He is sovereign because He is all-powerful, or at least He is as sovereign as He chooses to be in relation to this temporal world. Put differently, God is as controlling as He chooses to be over His creation. Sovereignty, therefore, should be described as the expression of God's power, not the source of it.
