Temple Marriage - Receiving More Help/Influence from God

Why is it so important to get married in the temple? There are many answers to this question, but I'll focus on one. It gives us greater access to the priesthood and therefore influence and help of God.

The Priesthood is defined as the following in the Gospel Principles manual:

Our Heavenly Father delegates His priesthood power to worthy male members of the Church. The priesthood enables them to act in God’s name for the salvation of the human family.

It appears that the Priesthood is the following, in my words: God has incredible power. He loans some of that power/authority to people on earth who meet certain conditions (worthiness and being "ordained" or given that authority by someone else who has it).

D.C. 131 gives additional information about the Priesthood:

1In the ^acelestial glory there are three ^bheavens or degrees;

2And in order to obtain the ^ahighest, a man must enter into this^border of the ^cpriesthood [meaning the new and ^deverlastingcovenant of ^emarriage];

3And if he does not, he cannot obtain it.

4He may enter into the other, but that is the end of his kingdom; he cannot have an ^aincrease.

It appears that getting married in the temple allows one to receive the greatest of God's blessings. Just like the Priesthood is loaned to us upon certain conditions, blessings are given to us if we meet certain conditions. Being married in the temple is part of the process of receiving a greater portion of the Priesthood. I think this means that being married in the temple gives us more help and authority from God to do right. It means our families are more likely to have heavenly help. It means God can be closer to us. It means a lot of things. When we marry in the temple, worthily, we are given a greater portion of the Priesthood, which blesses us tremendously and requires more from us.

It's very important to be married there. Without this, members are limited in what their marriages and families can become and in time, are limited in what they can become.

It's been made clear that faithful members will receive all the blessings of the gospel in time, but it's important for those who can choose to be married in the best place to choose to do so.