Save your life? Can we do that? Well, the sense should be obvious to us. We are talking about the old life, the life in this world, the life of material things which was our before we knew the Lord.
But there are churches where lots and lots of the members are unchanged from the lives they lived before there was saved. They are still living for the pleasures of this world and for station and progress and the advancement. And the words of Christ are still true: ‘Whosoever saves the old life will lose it.’ You need fruits of salvation. We need to be all for him, and once we are saved, it dawns on us, and we become wholly his if we are really saved, and we don't want to save the old life. We want the new life which is for him, not for me.