God is his own eternity. He is not eternal by grant, and the disposal of any other, but by nature and essence. He hath life by his essence, not by participation. With this in mind, remembering that only God is or can be sovereign, let us look at government. Government is the act of governing, of exercising control and authority.
Government is thus an exercise of sovereignty, or else a power delegated by sovereignty.
Sovereignty and government are thus very obviously theological facts, if Scripture is to be believed. Thus, for a theologian to discuss the doctrine of God without dealing with the usurpations of humanistic civil governments and schools is to deny God. It is impossible to discuss the doctrine of God in an ecclesiastical vacuum. Those who fail to see the implications of sovereignty and government do not know the living God. The secular historian Baumer, in speaking of the rise of absolutism in the modern era, clearly sees its connection to the rise also of the doctrine of statist sovereignty.