Redemption has two aspects — one is seen in the Passover and the other in the Red Sea. The two display, in a wonderful manner, the redemption which God has wrought through the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
God is holy and so He must judge sin and, consequently, the sinner. In the Passover we see how He judges sin and yet through the death of Christ protects the sinner from that judgment. The Passover comes before the Red Sea, for we need protection from His holy judgment before we can look to Him to deliver us from our enemies — the world, the flesh and the devil.
The deliverance at the Red Sea shows God’s power in Christ on His people’s behalf against all their enemies. The Israelites were delivered on the night of the Passover from God’s judgment on sin by the death of the young, unblemished lamb. In the Red Sea, they were delivered from their enemies by power. God raised Christ by mighty power, and we are to know and live in the certainty that that mighty power is for us and that nothing can separate us from it. “If God be for us, who can be against us.” “Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”