Did you ever think about the fact that Adam never had a biological father? And when people don't know their biological father or when they have a deadbeat or absent father, someone else usually steps in to assume the role of father figure. And I believe Jesus was that first father figure in human history, as he was a father to Adam, even before the fall when Adam was in the Garden of Eden. After all, who fathered Adam into existence? Genesis 2.7 says, And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul. I believe that's why Isaiah 9.6 refers to Jesus as the Everlasting Father. He made man. In that sense, Jesus fathered humanity into existence. Jesus 1.3 says of Jesus, all things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made. Twice in Genesis 2.9, the first man, Adam, is named. As we read, and out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every fowl of the air and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them. And whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. Jesus also made Adam's wife when he performed the first recorded surgery in history described in Genesis 2.21. Then Jesus walked and talked with Mr. and Mrs. Adam in the garden. And we know how things worked out. Eve ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Then Adam followed her in that sin and both were banished from the paradise garden of Eden. But the Lord is true and just. He kept his word. Adam and Eve would now have to die. But like a loving father to his children, the Lord Jesus made provision for them, as described in Genesis 3.21, unto Adam also, and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins and clothe them. The Lord shed blood as a picture of his own death to come in 4,000 years, as the Lord then promised the seed of a woman, later known as the Messiah and Savior of Israel, who would provide for their eternal salvation. Genesis 3.15 says, And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed, the virgin birth. It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Adam and Eve would live out their natural lives and God would care for them through all of life's trials and triumphs, from the births of Cain and Abel to the murder of Abel by Cain, and then the birth of Seth and many more sons and daughters of Eve. And nearly 3,000 years after Adam died, the Lord who had walked with him in the Garden of Eden and been a father figure to him from the day that he was made until the day of his death, After his own death, burial, and resurrection from the dead, Jesus appeared in paradise to take Adam and all the Old Testament believers to glory in heaven. And the Lord Jesus, the everlasting Father, can be the same type of Father figure in your life as he has been in mine. Psalm 68, five speaks of him as a father of the fatherless and a judge of the widows is God in his holy habitation. Whether you've had a good Christian father or not, as I did, Jesus stands ready to be that father figure in your life anytime you call on him to do so. Now, why does he do this? Because in doing so, the son glorifies our heavenly father in heaven. As Jesus said, even as Judas went out to betray him the night before the crucifixion in John 13, 31, Jesus said, now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. This Father's Day, thank God for your earthly father, or that father figure in your life, even if yours is in heaven as mine is. But also, thank God the Father Himself for being such a wonderful Heavenly Father, who is glorified in His Son, who also serves as the perfect Father figure to all of God's children, who will trust in His gospel for eternal salvation. We have a wonderful Savior in Jesus Christ. We have a lot to be thankful for on Father's Day and every day.