We are specifically commanded not to worship Yahweh as the pagans worship their gods (Deuteronomy 12:29-32). Not to not drink coffee as the pagans do or not have birthday parties for children as the pagans do. Remember Jesus came as a sword to separate us. If that's not happening in our lives, perhaps we should re-evaluate the way in which we walk.

The orgins of Christmas/ Saturnalia has a very interesting history and well worth the research. The origins of the Christmas tree/ Baal worship also has a very interesting history also worth personal research. The Sun/halo painted behind Jesus head also has a very interesting history. Paganism is deeply rooted in today's traditions. Make you wonder why it's even practice by Christians of the past which has passed on to the traditions of today.

But let’s talk about teaching children to worship false idols.

Deuteronomy‬ ‭12‬:‭30‬-‭31‬ take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods? I also will do likewise.’ You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way; This verse is your answer. If you can’t worship the Most High the way that you should you won’t be invited to the kingdom. He tells us how to glorify Him and it’s not a day full of shopping, commercialism, self reward, and chasing the world!! None of that says God!!

How many more centuries of damned shepherds must the world endure. We have been lied to and betrayed by the very people we were supposed to trust most. They just keep licking up the others vomit rather than stand for truth. YESHUA is the truth. But they even hide YESHUA name. Works of the devil 😢

Jeremiah 10. Clear and direct. Even speaks about the shepards and this particular subject. Everyone wants to know what everyone else thinks about Christmas except Elohim himself.

By reading the Word of God, & praying for Him to reveal any deception I had been taught in the past 25 yrs as a born again believer attending Baptist, Assembly of God & nondenominational. He quickly led my husband & I & our group to honor His Sabbath, commemorate the feasts as they all point to Messiah, rapture is at the end of trib & Easter & Xmas are pagan and how to follow his calendar to know the feasts. Wake up bride! He returns, judges and has the wedding supper of the Lamb at the fall feasts! May Yeshua give you revelation

Christmas is a pagan holiday. It comes from the celebration of the winter solstice. That’s why we celebrate on Dec. 25. The shortest day of the year and the sun comes out. So people worshiped the sun and Saturn-the god of agriculture.

Jeremiah 10 :1-5 KJV

Good for grampa if he is more concerned with what is pleasing to Father God than traditions of men.

I heard a message on this recently that said, it’s not about what it means to us or how we are trying to celebrate it, it matters what it means to *Him*. God is the one being worshipped and He has always been clear about not wanting other gods leftovers and slapping His name over the top of it (think of when the Israelites tried to convert other gods altars to use as the Lords- just no!). We are so far removed from the originations of a lot of these traditions that we think they’re not a big deal or it doesn’t matter anymore but to the Lord it’s the same as if it were 100 or 1000 years ago and he remembers good and well what they mean. It would be like giving your wife a gift that was for your first wife and saying “no , no sweetie, she means nothing to me! This locket is now for you!” She’s not going to want it and neither does God. I think you, dear brother Mark, are the one who needs to wake up and check your convictions and justifications.

It's all paganism, Jesus was never born on the 25 December, the Bible never say that. We should celebrate Jesus everyday 🙏.

What if we celebrate the biblical feast which are all shadows of Christ and his ministry? Why the church is not promoting and celebrating them instead of taking some pagan holiday and attach it to Christ birth. If we are so zealous of keeping Christ’s unknown birth date why can’t we celebrate the work and ministry of messiah which are truly about Christ!!

Im with grandpa

Let the Word of God declare the truth: 1)Child sacrifice: "Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?" Isa 57:5 2)Worldly customs: "Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not." Jeremiah 10:2-4 3)God's two witnesses will be slain: "And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth." Rev 11:8-10 The three wise men gave gifts to Jesus at his birth, not to each other, his mother, etc....The Scriptures are very clear, and these are only a small sampling of Scriptures pertaining to what the world celebrates.

I just learned the history of where Christmas came from. My husband and I both believe that we should celebrate each other and those we love throughout the year with bearing gifts not just one day a year. We also believe that we should glorify God for his great gift of Jesus Christ throughout the year. I am not going to label Christmas as a pagan holiday and those that worship Christ with remembering his birth on this particular day that they are dishonoring God. Personally this year I just decided not to celebrate Christmas in the traditional sense of buying great amounts of gifts getting a Christmas tree or decorating the house. Mainly due to my own convictions of wanting my life to totally please God and not allow any satanic influences in my home . Wanting to establish this home to be 100% Godly.

You just said you would never impose your conscience on others, then you tell Grandpa who made it clear his conscience doesn't allow this "to come on man, get some gifts, show up, have some fun, and make some memories " ???

It's about compromise, and your morality reflecting from it

"Where in the Bible does it say not to put a tree in your house?" I'm disappointed in you, Mark. Read the beginning of Jeremiah 10 (posted here). 10 Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: 2 Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. 3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. 4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. God said this is a heathen practice - and we use it to celebrate Jesus? Really?

We are not to go by our conscience but be lead by the holy spirit that lives in us and by studying the scriptures to see if pastors like yourself our telling us the truth. The only choice we have once we know the truth is to obey.

Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: 2 Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. 3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. 4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. Jeremiah 10:1-4 That sounds like God is describing the Christmas tree to me. And He clearly states there to NOT do as the heathen does, then gives you the example of the decorated tree! I'm surprised that the pastor doesn't know about this passage of scripture. I say, let the Lord be your guide. Everyone is at a different place in their maturity in Christ and so, we should not be judgemental, but once a Christian learns a truth, they should share that truth. That is why I'm posting it here.

You are an amazing pastor but you need to speak truth and stop sugarcoating celebrating pagan feasts, idolatry, falsehoods of golden calf and Jesus not born in December. Jeremiah 10, reread revelation and 1john about lukewarm Christians who do what the world and pagans do, mixing Lord with pagan traditions. You know better and it is a shame just going along with the narrative it's so deceptive and demonic. The real legalistic people here are the ones defending Christmas and traditions rather biblical Scripture - Jesus was angry at religious leaders for adding to and mixing traditions with law. You're doing that with paganism and calling it Christian and making excuses. I hope you pray hard on this one pastor Mark

Jesus said to remember his death, early christians did not celebrate birthdays!

You were one of my favorite Pastor's on youtube. Not anymore. All you did was mock christians who are walking in obedience and the truth and justified and made excuses for your disobedience. We are in this world but we are not of this world and we do not enjoy or partake in the things of this world, the lust of the eyes, the flesh and the pride of life. I hoping and praying you will examine your heart and repent for twisting God's word.

I don’t celebrate Christmas but I don’t condemn people who do. How much you love and trust Jesus in your heart is far more important than whether you spend one day a year celebrating Christmas. That being said, I don’t allow anything Santa in this house. Just the name gives me the creeps. My child won’t be taught Santa either. He’ll know that Christmas time is for generosity, showing kindness to your fellow man, and most importantly the birth of our savior, Jesus.

SUNday, MOONday, TYRESday, ODENSday, THORSday, FREYAday, SATURNday!

‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭12:4‭-‬5‬, 30-31 ‭NLT‬‬ [4] “Do not worship the Lord your God in the way these pagan peoples worship their gods. [5] Rather, you must seek the Lord your God at the place of worship he himself will choose from among all the tribes-the place where his name will be honored. [30] do not fall into the trap of following their customs and worshiping their gods. Do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How do these nations worship their gods? I want to follow their example.’ [31] You must not worship the Lord your God the way the other nations worship their gods, for they perform for their gods every detestable act that the Lord hates. They even burn their sons and daughters as sacrifices to their gods. YHWH gave us 7 holy feast days (and a weekly sabbath!) to remember Him, His son and His goodness. No lying to our children, no worshiping like Pagans. Check them out for yourself. Leviticus 23.

If we got rid of all the pagan holidays, we would have jewish festivals, imagine that, our God, who was a jew, keeping jewish traditions, who told us to keep the torah.......hmmmmm 🤔

Allow the Christian (grumpy grandpa) to have his own conviction on the matter.

Check out Robert breaker for some awesome breakdowns on these holidays! Everyone read your BIBLE. Man’s opinion is just that. Gods word is Just.

Mark, your arguments about birthdays & cars are poor. The issue is not about living in a world marked by paganism, the issue is about worship to God. Should we bring pagan traditions into our worship to God? Absolutely not!

the answer is yes, yes it is pagan.

So you're saying we should accept paganism because the world embraces it?

It’s really simple people, if God wanted us to celebrate or remember his birthday, he would have instructed us to do so! The Apostles nor the church in Acts never did. Paul would have told us too,only his death and resurrection,feast days of Yahweh. Quit trying to justify making something evil good!

You cannot serve two masters sir!

Thak You for all the teaching that you provide. Jus a point of fact. Jeus was cercumsised on the 8th day and presented at the temple a the fast of tabernacles. This fest has allways been celbrated between September and October. This is a proven fact. There it concludes the Jesús was Bor within This period and could not have been born in Dicember. Please forgive me if I cuse any contraversy I am a Hebrew Teacher and for the past 45 years, have belived the Jesús is the one and true Messiah. 😊

Yahusha was born on the feast of Sukkoth aka Feast of Tabernacles. He came to tabernacle with us. It was in the time of the harvest, and their was no room in the inn so he was born in a Sukkoth. It was the time of census and the first genocide of the first born males. Christianity is in a CREED to Catholicism

Why waste time with man-made religiousity and arguments while IGNORING GOD's appointed times? Does Christmas CONTAIN pagan ideas and imagery, YES. Does it contain worldly commerialized aspects? YES! At the end of the day, there is A LOT of argument about a man made tradition, and yet the church ignores and writes off GOD's apponted times as "jewish holidays" that we dont need to keep.

Pastor Mark’s very high stock just took a big hit. How about Jeremiah 10 and the fact that Leviticus 23 does not include it? He is spreading worldly conclusions instead of biblical wisdom.

Nothing in the bible prohibits heroin either, this is a horrible argument and I can't believe this is coming from a pastor.

Yeah I'm with grandpa on this one. If you really went deep into the history and meanings behind the symbolisms you could never reconcile Christmas with the worship and acknowledgement of Christ.

So NO Christmas and no birthdays, they are pegan. Thank you Mark for clarifying.

I got so confused because I just discovered your channel. I’m thinking “He sounds like Pastor Mark” but that can’t be him 😂 I celebrate Christmas for the sake of my 2 year old. But I’m iffy about it. I don’t think the names Santa - Satan is a coincidence.

Yes I do not want to participate as you said "as many first Christians did with saturnalia! " . If You paint snake gold colour it still bait . ....

Jeremiah 10

Jeremiah 10 King James Version 10 Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: 2 Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. 3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. 4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. 5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

I think most, like myself, dont like the "Santa" part overriding the virgin birth of our Savior. Even most christian homes still support the Santa story to the small children, up to the point they feel safe to tell them that he doesn't exist. As a grumpy old 63 year old, I find the Santa story just as disturbing as the Easter bunny. Neither has a place in christian homes.

Not legalism, but Christ Colossians 2:16-23

I will always celebrate Christmas to honor Jesus. The origin does not matter to me at all as long as my intention is for the glory of God the Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit❤🇵🇭

I always heard that a lot of pagan (Roman) holidays were brought into the church in the third century to try to minimize pagan practices. Is that correct?

To those sincerely and deeply seeking/searching for truth: Pastor Robert Breaker (You Tube) provides a very detailed teaching on Christmas, which is supported by a plethora of historical facts. Some of the content includes the pagan origin of the tree; the lies about St. Nicholas (made up cover for Santa [Satan]); Nimrod (Nimrod's birthday is December 25). Its well done. It is an eye opener. I humbly and graciously recommend listening and....at least considering other possibilities. I am not disagreeing with Pastor Mark Driscoll...but am attempting to bring additional awareness of satanic distortions of Christian holidays. Satan has been twisting and perverting everything that is Godly, in attempt to steer us away from Biblical/God truths. Most Christians have come up in apostate churches. There are more apostate churches than true Biblical churches. It's a challenge facing most of us. Catholicism is loaded with paganism. Mormonism is a distortion of Christianity. And then there are the apostate churches...and groups...Osteen...Hinn....Meyers....etc. Its difficult to be different. Its difficult to refuse to participate in Christmas traditions that we have been faithfullly following for years...but the path is narrow and we are being asked to make important choices. Its up to us to determine what choices feel in alignment with Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. One cannot honor God, while simultaneously practicing Paganism and paying hommage to Santa (satan). As we become closer to God and more immersed in the Word, the false beliefs and traditions fall away. May we all peel the scales back from our eyes and open to the truth. God Bless.

Jesus was born in April sometimes. The Bible says do not worship Him the way the pagans worship their gods. Do not conform to this world. Thou shall not lie. But how many church's say Dec 25th is Jesus birthday?. Im with grandpa

The woman who worked to create Mothers Day ended up spending the rest of her life campaigning to get people to stop celebrating it once it became commercialized.

I think you are taking romans 14 way out of context..

It is at the same time as the festival of Yule which was Anglo Saxon and Viking winter festival. It was a chance for people to have something to look forward to in the dead of winter. It did involve drinking and eating big feasts and coming together to get through the winter. I may be wrong but i think Yule was around the shortest day so after the festival it was onwards and upwards towards spring.

👉🏻👉🏻👉🏻 I’ll tell you what is grievous ~ NOT keeping the true Sabbath! When God created the world in which we live, He said to keep the Sabbath holy. Sabbath is the seventh day. Sunday is NOT Sabbath. Saturday IS the Sabbath. Maybe people arguing against Christmas & other events should rethink their position on this topic!!!

My wife just sent a comment, and i wanted also to share a little bit more ....a penny for your thoughts....seleh (pause and think about it)....the year 2023 and beyond, the world is headed into perilious times....as it was in the days of noah...so shall it be...and men did what seems right in their own eyes,for they love not the truth of the gospel. The peoples are adhearing to doctrines of devils to have their ears tickled.....sothey wont feel guilty to justify their own actions....we are called to be set apart from the world so that there is a destinction between the holy and profane...when you compromise so no one is offended then you become lukewarm....and i think we know the rest of the story there...as far as christmas ....yashua (God's salvation), was conceived at hannukkah, (the light of the world), and came to dwell among us, (and the word became flesh) at tabernacles....by the way Christ--isnt Jesus's last name, in biblical times they didnt have last names they used so and so son or daughter of.... christ is latin and means annointed one, ....in the end once you know the truth you become accountable for it,let peace rule your heart, in the end time the love of many will wax cold there shall be a great falling away of loving the truth of the gospel loving God, and keeping His commandments and many shall become offended.....my friends we are there in those times now...

Jesus was simple and lowly. Let's use him as our example to navigate life in all aspects.

Thank you!! Unfortunately, I needed this explanation too. Much appreciated

It's weird to see Christians protesting Christmas, the solution is EASY, just remove consumerism for the holiday and keep it about Jesus. My family doesn't give gifts at Christmas, we just spend time together, enjoy good food and pray.

I heard that Christmas was about 10,000 things, so I make it about my Lord and savior.

Jeramiah 10 specifically speaks against the Christmas tree. To answer you question. God says do not worship him the way pagans worship their gods.

Thank you for addressing this question. It was helpful.

No hate! I love you and your sermons !

The flesh lusts against the spirit and the spirit lusts against the flesh. The eyes are the windows to the soul. The flesh see’s the evil in the world or The spirit see’s the good in the world. Are you looking through the eyes lead by the spirit?

Yes

Nice God bless everyone

Yes we do know when he was born. Well not to the day, but we do know it was around July. It has been researched based on that the counting of the folks wasn’t done every day. Also not every year. We know what leader ruled when Jesus was born so it’s only a matter of research to find out when that ruler ruled and during his reign he wanted to count his people. That will tell you when he was born. There are books outside of religious books that describe Jesus and John the Baptist. All these sources can be used to find out it was around July

There's such a thing as discernment, and dividing. Satans lies always are a mixup of truth and lies. So there needs to be some unraveling and editing. Jesus was born on 1st of Nisan, Jewish scholars have utilised all clues in the bible to figure out. Thats around end of March start of April.

No one celebrating Christmas or birthdays is using it for evil or bad intentions so who cares and why stop celebrating them. It brings families together and joy into people's hearts. Only if people were being maliciousness than i would see a problem with it.

Every day of the year and every symbol has been used by pagans in some shape or another. God mentioned festivals in alignment with the stars in Genesis

so Mark you’re taking scripture out of context regarding purity. He was only referring to Paul’s ministry of the Gentiles and that all people can be pure. it does not mean we can do or EAT anything we want. Malachi 3:6 God does not change

Christ is to be celebrated every day, but if youvwant to promote gifts and commercialism and going into debt, go for it. You yhe ones being conned

Yes it is! Everyone BE BLESSED! HALLELUJAH! PRAISE...YAH!🙏💖

During winter solstice, saturnalia and mithra's bday

I feel like we was about to say “there is no Christian murder” but stopped cause there’s a LOT of Christian murder lolol

*I don't put a tree in my house for Christmas, I put a stand for the star of Bethlehem in my house that happens to be a tree with lights and ornaments.* (not a "grove" on the high places - big difference).

Merry Christmas!!! I didn't recognize you 😂

I Iike your Volkswagen example, but Would love some biblical examples of false religious traditions being redeemed. Thanks

Revelation 12. September 11, 3 BC

After reading Jeremiah 10 a couple years ago, I was shocked that it described what seemed to be a Christmas tree. I cannot in good conscience put up a tree now. It just feels wrong. I have many Christian friends that love decorating at Christmas. Getting into the “Christmas Spirit”. I don’t know what to think about that…. Lord, what do you think?

Mark 7: 13

Mark 7: 8

Jesus told us to celebrate his death til he comes.

At the end what he says about if it is in your conviction…. My husband and I saw the three 6’s and what appears to be an eye (“eye of the beast”) in the Taco Bell logo. Maybe we are reading too far into it. Maybe we aren’t. We are convicted in NOT ever eating Taco Bell because we cannot unsee that symbolism in their logo. We’ve shared what we see but don’t feel convicted to shame what others don’t. I don’t believe someone eating Taco Bell is evil, but I do believe that if you see something and you feel it is or could be evil, you do not partake. So when people see evil in a holiday and choose not to celebrate, regardless of how silly i think it is, I am pleased that someone is not partaking in something they see as evil.

In regards to trees in the house- Jeremiah 10:1-4

Regarding birthdays, didn't Job's children gather for a birthday celebration toward the beginning of the book? That was the interpretation of the passage I've been taught. To your point about removing oneself from worldly influences, we are to be light and salt while we exist *in* this world. My pastor would often tell us, don't get wrapped up in worldly things, but don't swing the pendulum so far the other direction that you become so Heavenly-minded you end up being no earthly good!😅

In my early years, I owned five different VWs. I loved them. Course I ask God to bless my cars that I won't die in any of them. Still here.

Jeremiah 10 clearly tells us not do the tree. This guy doesn’t know the scripture. Birthdays could be considered pagan. Christmas is shrouded in the blood of the innocent. We don’t worship cars. People worship fertility symbols like wreaths and trees. We are told not to learn the ways of the he’s then. Read the Bible bro

Yes the Bible does give us the info needed to find his birth. Luke 2 gives us almost all we need. Zechariah was of the tribe of Abijah when serving in the Temple. Use that date to time when he slept with Elizabeth. Then take when Mary visited Elizabeth. Count the days and you get late September. Look into it! Look up Chuck Missler on this issue. Jeremiah talks about trees in chapter 10. Look that up too. That being said I agree it's best not to take it too seriously but there are answers to questions.

Colossians 2:8

You are wrong again Mark......read your Bible.

What if your husband is like th grandpa and you don't agree with him and want to celebrate Christmas? 😢

Jeremiah 10 the Christmas tree is clearly called out. The Christmas tree is a pagan obelisk symbol. It is a symbol of sun God worship.

We have 2 possible months Jesus was born. Either March or September. We know this because Elizabeth who was Mary’s cousin was pregnant 6 months before Mary received notice from God. So if we know when John the Baptist was born then we have a time frame from when Yeshua/Jesus can be born which is 6 months after John the Baptist was born. John the Baptist father served as a priest of Zacharias and served in the course of Abijah for 2 stretches of the year in the 8th division. The Course of Abijah was the eighth division (1 Chronicles 24:1-10), meaning Zacharias served sixteen weeks (8 divisions x 2 weeks per turn) after the beginning of the Jewish year (which was around March), and then he served for another two weeks, six months later (which was around September): Ergo, Elizabeth (John’s mother) conceived sometime either in June or December, and gave birth to John in March or September…and since Mary was conceived with Jesus six months into Elizabeth’s pregnancy, that would mean Mary conceived Jesus in either June or December, and gave birth nine months later…in either March or September.

Some folks get more wisdom as they age....for you to tell folks to get Gramps analyzed is very messed up advice. Older people know things you dont but good luck with your fashion show and truck givaway. You are so cool, the world loves you pastor mark.

You can't escape Christ. Look at your tree. There's only one natural true light that has been hung on a tree. Gal 3:13. Christ is all and in all. We're the ornaments

We were all pagans before we were redeemed. We are to claim territory for the kingdom of God. We are to redeem the time, for it is short. Don't be a Pharisee.

I almost didn't recognize Mark

Christmas is a pagan holiday point blank