Righteousness then Grace -- The Red Sea

"And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever." (Exodus 14: 13)

After the Israelites had partaken of the Passover Lamb, covered by the Blood which protected them from the Angel of Death (Exodus 12: 29-32).

The blood on the door posts is a type of the final sacrifice that Jesus made on our behalf at Calvary:

"The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." (John 1: 29)

Moses then told the Israelites to "stand still and see the salvation of the Lord".

When we know and believe the love that God has for us (1 John 4: 16), that God has sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins and the sins of the world (1 John 4: 10), then we can stand and see Him take care of all our needs:

"Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world." (1 John 4:17).

The Red Sea was also a picture of this redemption which brought the Israelites out of slavery:

"By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned" (Hebrews 11: 29)

and

"Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

"And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea" (1 Corinthians 10: 1-2)

Crossing the Red Sea was indeed a type of baptism, the same which make us righteous in Christ:

"Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

"Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." (Romans 6: 3-4)

His grace then saves us from all our enemies, just as the same water that baptized the Israelites then drowned the pursuing Egyptians. Stand fast in your righteousness, and see Jesus your salvation defeat all your enemies.