Does John 15:13 Really Talks About The Greatest Love? (Part 2)
John 15:13
[13]Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
The love of Christ for us is demonstrated on three levels to show that it is not captured by John 15:13. The love of Christ is not just demonstrated in His death for us, it is also demonstrated in His resurrection and His ascension to live forever at the right hand of God.
The love of Christ for us spans death, resurrection and eternal life.

Now no man can ever love like this. A man might love another enough to die for him, but he cannot love him enough to rise up from the dead to live to love such a person thereafter. Loving enough to die is what John 15:13 talks about. It does not capture loving enough to come back alive from the dead. We all have the power to lay down our lives for our loved ones, but no human has the power to take back his/her life after dying for his/her loved one. Christ did not just love us and gave himself for us in death, but also for us in resurrection and life forever. This is the greatest love that no man can ever attain.
Romans 8:34-35
[34]Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
[35]Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or unclothedness, or peril, or sword?
The scripture above shows that the love is not just in His death for us, but also in His resurrection for me and you.

If a man loves enough to die for another, he leaves the beloved in misery and sorrow for the rest of his/her life, though the beloved is grateful, he or she continues to feel the absence of the lover and to mourn him. Not so with the love of God for us. We don't have to mourn because He loved us enough to come back from the dead and be with us in love forever. This is our joy. We rejoice in Him forever.
Philippians 3:3
[3]For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
Our joy is in His resurrection, for if He did not resurrect, we are doomed.
1 Corinthians 15:13-18
[13]But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:
[14]And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
[15]Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
[16]For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
[17]And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
[18]Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

Jesus is not just alive today, He is alive for us. It is half truth to believe that He died for us but today He is just alive. He lives for us today and forever. We are His beloved and His purpose for living forever.
Hebrews 7:25
[25]Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
Beloved, God loves us far beyond death and life. His love for us is far beyond anything speakable or describable. It is not limited to death or even to life. It is far beyond what John 15:13 describes. That is the height of the love of man, not of the love of God for us in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:38-39
[38]For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
[39]Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Do not conceive for one split second that the life talked about in verse 38 above is this present life, the Greek word translated life there is "zoe" which means eternal life. The love of God even transcends that life. Mind-blowing, innit? Rejoice in the Grace. Cheers!
Grace always!