Metaphor for 'spotting' on your soul:

“If you see what the gospel of grace does, it even reaches into the jails and the brutality/degradation of jail life. The way the ‘sentences against evil works’ are executed is changed, and the greatest people who have worked for reform in prisons, bringing humanity into penal institutions, are Believers. It’s never been the world; the ACLU and that crowd. They just want to let people out and not give penalties and people don’t learn what they need to learn in it.

“Where the gospel goes hospitals show up, orphanages show up, leper colonies show up. Why? Because there’s something inside that transforms the person and brings a character and a lifestyle that’s different from what was there before,” says Richard Jordan.

“Now there will be other people who are just as religious if not more so (probably so) than true Believers are and their religion will be there and yet it will be in the context of their religion that all this social and moral corruption thrives and it means nothing.

“That is what’s behind the description here when II Peter talks about 'having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.' It’s more than just escaping drinking beer or smoking cigarettes or cussing or watching dirty movies. It’s what’s behind all of that and what produces all the lasciviousness of the flesh. It’s a thinking process; it’s a religion.

“James 1: [26] If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
[27] Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

“Where would you find that in the Bible? Do you remember Matthew 25 when Christ says to the people on His right hand, [36] Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

“The real thing is going to be to visit the fatherless and the widow in their affliction. You go all through the Old Testament and you see the provisions Moses and the law makes for those two categories.

“To be unspotted from the world means more than just don’t get your clothes dirty working in the yard and more than just, ‘Don’t go down to the bar and have somebody spill a drink on you.'

“It’s a metaphor talking about a different kind of spotting; a spotting on your soul. A leprosy spot that would sink down into your inner man.

“Jude 8 and 10: [8] Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
[10] But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

“That issue about a garment spotted by the flesh is a real clear reference to something in your Bible.  Leprosy is a disease in the flesh that corrupted the garment.

“Revelation 16:1-2: [1] And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
[2] And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.

“We’re in the end of the tribulation period sometime before the Second Coming of Christ over toward the end of the tribulation. The wrath of almighty God is being poured out.

“Over and over in the Old Testament, the wrath of God striking out against those that rebel against Him, He strikes them with leprosy; with a skin disease that represents the corruption.

“When it talks about the garments, it’s not talking about the clothes they’ve got on at the moment because you can take your clothes off and wash them. It’s a spiritual issue; it’s like what he says in chapter 19. They had these white robes and the robes are the righteousness of the saints.

“He’s talking about some people who spotted themselves with the corruption of the religious system. These people in II Peter are having to stand against a system that seeks to corrupt the nation Israel.”