Numbers 12:2 | The Offense of Aaron

This week’s episode was given in real time—straight from the place of prayer. What started as a simple phrase from the Holy Spirit, “curse the offense of Aaron,” turned into a powerful revelation that every believer needs right now.

In this teaching, I dive into Numbers chapter 12, where Aaron and Miriam speak against Moses—not with obvious offense, but through subtle comparison, insecurity, and unspoken pride. Because here’s the truth: offense rarely sounds like offense.

It sounds like:

• “God speaks to me too.”
• “I just don’t agree with how they’re doing it.”
• “I feel overlooked.”

But underneath those thoughts is something deeper—something that hasn’t been surrendered.

This episode will challenge you to stop looking outward and start allowing God to search your heart. You’ll learn how unchecked offense grows, how it leads to speaking against what God has established, and why it’s so dangerous to let it sit beneath the surface.

Most importantly, you’ll discover the difference between Miriam’s response and Aaron’s—and why Aaron’s immediate humility is the key to breaking offense quickly.

There is a strong call in this episode to examine whether what you’ve been calling “discernment” is actually unresolved offense. Because offense doesn’t just affect how you feel—it shapes how you see, speak, and respond.

This is not just a teaching—it’s an invitation to freedom.

The episode closes with a powerful prayer, asking God to expose hidden offense, uproot it at the source, and align your heart in humility and purity so you can hear Him clearly again.

Transcript

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Hey guys, all right, we are back for another week of our podcast. I'm super excited for what God has given me today. You know, I really have been kind of last minute getting these instructions from the Lord on what to talk about. And so um this one is literally has has come today, and so I just want to share it with you. Um, as I was in prayer, I felt the Holy Spirit say this one phrase to me curse the offense of Aaron. And I was interceding, and I just thought, curse the offense of Aaron. I had never even heard that, but I did remember um in Numbers 12 where Aaron and Mariam they actually speak against Moses. So when I began to study that, um, that's where I got this podcast from today. And so I just want to share with you everything that God has been talking to me about today through the offense of Aaron. Now, this is again Numbers 12. Okay, you can go and read this story for yourself. This is where Aaron and Miriam they speak against Moses. Um, and here's what's interesting: they don't come out and say we're offended, they don't say we're jealous, they don't even say we're hurt, okay? They say, has the Lord only spoken through Moses? Has he not also spoken through us? And I want you to hear this clearly. Offense rarely sounds like offense. I'm gonna say that again. Offense rarely sounds like offense. It sounds like this, guys. Well, God speaks to me too. I just don't agree with how they're doing it. I feel overlooked. I feel like I'm not being seen. But underneath all of that is something that hasn't been surrendered. So it's not really even about the person, it's not even about what they're doing or what they're not doing. It's God pointing his finger and putting his finger on something in you that has not been surrendered, okay? It's a personal evaluation. It has this is the thing with offense is offense, we all think that it's the other person's fault. But it's really God asking you to evaluate yourself. We have to take responsibility, and we have to say, Man, why am I offended? Why is this bothering me so much? Like, I know what they said, and and yeah, they they probably didn't say it right or they didn't do it right, and you know, we're all human, nobody does anything perfect, but I want you to to go with me through this podcast, and at the end, I pray that um I'm I actually am gonna pray for you, but I pray that we all um allow God to sift our heart of any offense that we might be carrying that's just um buried way down under there. We do we want to pull those roots up, okay? So let's walk through this. Offense didn't start when they spoke, it started way before that. It started in comparison, okay. Uh, the spirit of comparison, it kind of just starts as like these little seeds, these little thoughts, these little things, and really you kind of ignore them at first, but the Bible says to take every thought captive and to command it to submit to the spirit of God. So if you have a thought or you have um something come across your mind and you don't immediately take it captive and command it to submit to the spirit of God, then actually um it just begins to grow, okay? And so this is what we don't want to do. We don't want those comparisons, those voices, those those thoughts. Um, you know, it might be from something that you heard from somebody else, maybe it's a small seed of gossip, or something you even read, or um it just starts so small. I wish I could just express how small this um spirit of comparison starts and how it leads to the spirit of offense, which is actually um the spirit of pride, really. It's the smallest form. Offense is the smallest form of pride. All right, so it started in comparison. They began to look at Moses and say, What about me? What about my voice? What about my calling? Now they didn't say this stuff to Moses. This is just these are just thoughts inside their head, okay? And instead of taking those thoughts, like I said, instead of taking them captive, taking them to God, they let them sit. All right, and what sits, it begins to grow. And what grows internally will eventually come out of your mouth, because the Bible says that what is truly in the heart, the mouth speaks. So even though you're holding it down and you're not saying anything, you're not releasing it, if you don't deal with it, eventually it will come out of your mouth and it will cause more damage than it should ever have. And the moment they spoke it, literally, God responded immediately. Literally, they said that to Moses, and they they um they challenged what God had placed on his life, and God responded immediately. Why? Because they weren't just speaking against Moses, they were literally challenging what God had established, right? Okay, so it wasn't always tell people like you know, when people ask you to do stuff like leaders or or whoever your pastor, make sure that you're not saying no to God, because a lot of times those people will ask you things, um, and it's it's not the person that you're saying no to or the person that you're speaking against, you're actually speaking against God, okay? Because Jesus says um in the Bible it talks about, and they were like, Well, well, Lord, how did we feed you and how did we serve you, and and how did we um provide for you clothing when you were naked? And he said, When you do to to these, you do it to me. In other words, we have to understand that how we treat man, how we treat our brother and our sisters in Christ, and um just humans in general, we have to understand that that's actually how we're treating Jesus because they are made in the image of God. He told Paul, he said, Why are you persecuting me? And he says, I'm not persecuting you. He said, What are you talking about? And Jesus said, Why are you persecuting me? Basically, because uh Paul was killing Christians, and so therefore, God saw it as him persecuting him instead of he didn't see it as him persecuting Christians and and people and his children, he saw it as Jesus himself being persecuted. So they were challenging what God established, and I need you to catch this when offense is left unchecked, it will lead you to speak against things God actually put in place, and you won't even realize you've crossed that line. Now, here's where this gets powerful, and this is the part you want to grab onto, okay? Because, yes, Miriam was struck with leprosy, guys. You need to read this story because we need to decide: are we Miriam or are we Aaron? And are we responding like Miriam did, or are we responding like Aaron did? Because Miriam, she didn't repent quickly, she let it stay, she let it fester, and she let it keep going, and she was literally struck with leprosy because of it. You need to read this story again, Numbers 12. Yes, there were consequences. Miriam had consequences, but Aaron he responded fast, and that's what I want to teach you today. Aaron didn't defend himself, he didn't say, Well, this is what this is why we said it, he didn't justify his feelings, he didn't double down, he immediately said, We have sinned, guys. Do you hear that? His response immediately, fast, was we have sinned. Not they hurt me, not I had a reason. He called it what it was sin. He took ownership of his sin. That's what we need to do in the body of Christ. We have to stop pointing fingers so much, and we have to look at ourselves and say, Am I offended? Why did I respond like that? Why did I say that? And it what evaluate me first. We need to evaluate ourselves first. He called it what it was sin. And then he did something else. He went to Moses, the very one he spoke against, he went back to and he asked for mercy. This is how you break offense quickly, not by proving your point, not by getting validation, not by finding people who agree with you. You break it through humility immediately. That's so important, immediately. So let me give you something practical. You can actually walk out, okay? Because some of you are dealing with this right now and don't even realize it. I've seen the spirit of offense very strongly in the last couple of weeks, and so I know that you're dealing with it right now. Here's how you deal with it the moment it shows up, okay? First, you catch it early. Pay attention to what's rising up in you. Are you comparing? Are you irritated with someone God placed? Are you questioning their position instead of checking your heart? That's your signal. Second, name it. Not they made me feel this way, but is this offense in me? Take ownership because you can't heal what you won't own. Again, I'm gonna say that again, because you can't heal what you won't own. Third, humble yourself fast. Don't let it sit. Take that thing captive and command it to come out. Delay is what gives offense roots. Aaron didn't wait, he moved immediately forth. Go to the person if the Lord leads you. Guys, there's sometimes the Lord will not lead you to do that. I know everybody says, oh, well, it says if you have a you know offering to give and you have something against your brother, then you need to go to them. Yeah, but you can't go to your brother and and try to prove yourself. That's not what God is saying. If you're not going in a place of humility and repentance and unity, you don't need to go to your brother. You don't need to talk about it or try to make things right. You can't do that if if the other person hasn't had you know time to calm down and they're still a hot boiling pot of water, you're you're not gonna bring unity, you're not gonna bring, you know, a peaceful result because they're not ready. So you need to make sure that you're ready and you need to make sure that they're ready for the conversation to come into unity and and actually be resolved. So go to the person, but guys, if the Lord leads you, ask for the timing because that is so important. I've seen people go to the person and the person's not ready, or they're not going from a place of humility and recon reconciliation, they're going from a place of I want to prove myself and all of that. You can't do that, it's not the right time. You need to ask God for the timing on when to go to the person, okay? Don't gossip about it, don't vent to five people. If you've already done that, and then you're gonna try to bring unity, guys. The devil is gonna have a have a happy dance with that. He's gonna be like, Oh yeah, but they went and told five or six people and they gossiped, and now they're wanting unity with this person. No, it's out of alignment with the word of God, so you can't do that, okay? I know you want to tell somebody, I know you want to, you know, get it out of your chest and you, you know, whatever, but you can't. You need to just talk to God about it until until you don't want to talk about it no more. Don't don't go to five different people and vent and call it, you know, trying to get wisdom on how to handle the situation when really it's just gossip. We can call it whatever we want, we can call it holy if we want to, but it's still gossip, it's not holy. Okay, go to the one it actually involves. That alone will shut down so much of the enemy's work. A lot of times you can you can deal with the enemy if you just don't tell anybody, you don't gossip about it. All right, and fifth, ask for mercy, not validation. That's where people miss it. We want to be understood, we want to be justified. I talked about that, and so but freedom doesn't come from being right, it comes from being aligned, and I feel this so strongly. Some of you have been carrying offense and calling it discernment. I'm gonna say that again. Some of you have been carrying offense and calling it discernment, and it's not, it's unresolved comparison that turned into judgment, and God is inviting you to deal with it quickly because the longer it stays, the more it will affect how you see, how you speak, and how you respond. So I want to pray with you, okay? Just take a moment wherever you are and let's pray. Lord, expose anything in us that we've allowed to turn into offense. Anywhere that we've compared instead of surrendered, show us God. We choose humility over being right. We release every place where we've spoken against what you've established. Clean our heart quickly, God. And teach us to respond like Aaron, fast, humble, and aligned with you in Jesus' name. And guys, I'll leave you with this. Offense isn't dangerous because of how it feels. It's dangerous because of what it leads you to say. But if you deal with it quickly, it loses its power just as fast as it came. So, guys, remember you must take those little thoughts captive. Those thoughts of comparison, those thoughts of judgment, all of that, take it all captive at the very beginning. Don't let the spirit of offense uh begin to root and grow a tree and produce fruit in your life that God never called you to. Okay. The spirit I have felt and I have um I've seen it in prayer, and it's affecting God's people a lot right now. So I hope that this will help you just it will just challenge you to look at it, okay? Look at you to be honest, majority of the time the situation that you're going through has nothing to do with what you need to deal with inside your heart. It's usually something that has if you really have offense, it's just something that you you never dealt with. You just pushed aside, you know, and you didn't want to deal with it at that time. God guys, don't do that. Don't do that. You need your spirit to be able to hear God and be led by God at a pure form. And so these things, when they come, you've got to be able to acknowledge them right away. Man, that was offense. I think I might have got a little offended, or you know, and then you go to war with it, you pray, you read your Bible, and you you force that thing out. It says um in the Bible that we take the kingdom by force. We take God's kingdom by force. So some things, yes, you have to wrestle with, you have to fight with, and go, no, I refuse to be offended. No, I refuse to be bitter at that person. No, I I forgive them. No, I will not do that. I'm not letting this division come into you know my heart between me and whoever it is, or your your I don't know, church, your your business, your work, your your school, your family, I don't know, whatever it is, whatever group of people you want to call it, don't let that spirit of division um use you as a vessel, okay? Do not, man, do not let the spirit of division use you as a vessel to cause division in the body of Christ. I love you guys. Thank you. I will chat with you next week. And guys, if you need help, if you need prayer, please reach out to us. You can email me directly at Cody at Global Footprints Ministries.com. Cody is spelled C O D I E. And we will be glad to pray with you. We will be glad to stand with you and walk with you and um help you however we can. Love you guys.