It is well to distinguish the difference between the Passover and the Red Sea. A person may hear the gospel and receive it with joy, and be rejoicing in the forgiveness of sins; he may see the loveliness of Christ and have his affections drawn out towards Himself. But if full redemption is not known, as typified by the Red Sea, if he does not know himself to be risen with Christ on the other side of death and judgment, he is almost sure to lose his joy when temptation comes and he feels his own weakness. The joy of Exodus 15 is that God has absolutely redeemed them out of Egypt and brought them in His strength to His holy habitation. It is a very different thing from the joy of the Passover — being delivered from just and deserved judgment. The Passover delivered them from His judgment; the Red Sea, from their enemies.
J. N. Darby